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Woman on ward - complains about male patient. Is discharged.

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KittenKong · 27/01/2022 11:01

Going on twitter. She was in a Women’s ward (signage says ‘women’ but later this was disputed by staff).

Another patient on ward ‘Annie’ (not real name). Visitor comes in ‘Hello Fred’.

Woman patient complains that there is a male in the ward. Staff come on handed and tell her that there isn’t (and that there were no single sec wards) - and treated as if she is a troublemaker.

Woman mysteriously discharged PDQ, although not quite feeling well enough in herself.

twitter.com/gillyism/status/1486596070096478209?s=21

Baroness is on the case.

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Rheopecticfluid · 03/02/2022 20:08

Yeah, that didn't work out so well for her, did it as she clearly didn't look '' woman '' enough.

Wouldn't have been an issue once. Until people like you started pushing to including men in women's spaces. Now women have to be extra vigilant. As the likelihood is so much higher.

You must be proud of your contribution to this situation.

Rheopecticfluid · 03/02/2022 20:06

Nobody WAS unsafe though, what doesn't sit right is the whole demonising of a whole group of people just because you (general you) deem them a threat.

On this occasion no.

What about all the other occasions when men are in women's sex segregated spaces? Does that concern you?

Hasselhoffsheadband · 03/02/2022 20:04

Nobody WAS unsafe though, what doesn't sit right is the whole demonising of a whole group of people just because you (general you) deem them a threat.

So you don't think there should be any female single sex spaces because that would essentially be 'demonising a whole group of people' (ie. Men).

My husband is a lovely man, not a threat and would never hurt anyone. No one would be unsafe if he were in a female only hospital ward, so is it right he should stay in one?

MrsWooster · 03/02/2022 20:01

It’s interesting that Barley and Eel only turned up to wokescold AFTER Gilly tweeted that the person on her award was female after all. Why weren’t they present from the start, defending TWAW and its logical consequence that women (cunty ones) have no right to single sex spaces.

EeeICouldRipATissue · 03/02/2022 19:57

A biological woman will always look woman enough because that’s what they are
Like the biological woman this thread is about, you mean?
Yeah, that didn't work out so well for her, did it as she clearly didn't look '' woman '' enough.

CharlotteRose90 · 03/02/2022 19:55

Nope not a chance. I’ve always been on female wards or private ones. I would not stay if I was put on a unisex bay . Not a chance on earth. We as women are entitled to privacy.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 03/02/2022 19:55

Men by definition can never look ‘woman enough’ because they’re men

A biological woman will always look woman enough because that’s what they are

EeeICouldRipATissue · 03/02/2022 19:54

But you don't give a shiny shit about women being at risk of harm and sexual assault because men have been allowed to access their sex segregated spaces
Yes I do '' give a shit. ''
Nobody should feel unsafe and of course I don't want anyone to be abused.
Nobody WAS unsafe though, what doesn't sit right is the whole demonising of a whole group of people just because you (general you) deem them a threat.

EeeICouldRipATissue · 03/02/2022 19:52

cor, it really is astonishing that anyone ever manages to have a baby innit? dh and i drew lots for which one would get pregnant and just kept our fingers crossed that we'd correctly identified each other's sex (and our own!)
Well, that's a twisting of what I said or blatantly missing the point - how has that got anything to do with what you quoted?!
It's not about biologically female bodies giving birth, yes we all know that's what happens.
You do realise that that's not what the thread or indeed what we're talking about right?!
It's the when people are going on a woman's looks and deciding whether she looks woman enough whatever the fuck that means.

Rheopecticfluid · 03/02/2022 19:51

It's amazing though that you have all these protective feelz towards a woman being misgendered.

But you don't give a shiny shit about women being at risk of harm and sexual assault because men have been allowed to access their sex segregated spaces.

Why is that Eels? Are you capable of explaining your thought process here?

Rheopecticfluid · 03/02/2022 19:49

I doubt many women who give a shit about safeguarding would be that concerned if it meant keeping males out of women's spaces.

Because what's worse. Being mistaken for a man Shock Or being sexually assaulted by a man.

Choose one...

And no I'm not her. But I certainly have been her.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 03/02/2022 19:48

No amount of surgery & hormones can alter the basic different skeletal structure of a man and a woman

Woman on ward - complains about male patient. Is discharged.
Woman on ward - complains about male patient. Is discharged.
EeeICouldRipATissue · 03/02/2022 19:45

So what? No harm done
You're her, are you?
How else would you know there was no harm done to her, how she felt or what went on as she was subjected to all this '' you're a man get him off my ward type crap?!

BernardBlackMissesLangCleg · 03/02/2022 19:45

@EeeICouldRipATissue

What, you reckon human beings throughout history haven't been able to tell who are the men and who are the women? 🤣 Well, this woman probably thought she '' could always tell '' too and we can see what a banging job she did of that!
cor, it really is astonishing that anyone ever manages to have a baby innit? dh and i drew lots for which one would get pregnant and just kept our fingers crossed that we'd correctly identified each other's sex (and our own!)
PurgatoryOfPotholes · 03/02/2022 19:44

And if medical staff had decided this woman was trans and placed her on the men's ward and she was abused that's just fine then is it?

So you think placing transmen in male environments endangers them?

Rheopecticfluid · 03/02/2022 19:43

Well, this woman probably thought she '' could always tell '' too and we can see what a banging job she did of that!

So what? No harm done. I doubt she would have mistaken a man for a woman. And it's that way round that actually matters.

PurgatoryOfPotholes · 03/02/2022 19:41

@RoyalCorgi

I suppose I must have met tens and thousands of people in my life - we all have. I can count on the fingers of one hand - OK, possibly two hands - the number of times I've mistaken a woman for a man or vice versa.

The fact that you occasionally see very mannish women or very feminine men is no reason whatsoever to allow men onto single-sex women's wards, or indeed any other female spaces.

Surely only the terminally stupid would fail to understand this.

I've felt confused about someone else's sex three times altogether. Then they spoke and that clarified the matter immediately. The remaining time was in a women's only space, so I made no comment, assumed I was wrong, and let them go about their day without interference.

Now I have people on here and other media telling me that male people can and will use women's spaces as they want and will ignore notices on doors, I feel rather less trusting!

EeeICouldRipATissue · 03/02/2022 19:35

What, you reckon human beings throughout history haven't been able to tell who are the men and who are the women? 🤣
Well, this woman probably thought she '' could always tell '' too and we can see what a banging job she did of that!

AssignedBlobbyAtBirth · 03/02/2022 19:33

If a male is in a female space they clearly give no shits about the feelings of the women and that, imo, is abuse. Happy to force women into mixed sex spaces against their will

Hasselhoffsheadband · 03/02/2022 19:33

Aye, you keep telling yourself that.

What, you reckon human beings throughout history haven't been able to tell who are the men and who are the women? 🤣

EeeICouldRipATissue · 03/02/2022 19:31

A klaxon must have gone off
Heaven forbid there's TWO dissenting voices, must mean a klaxon or tag team or whatever! Hmm
Your tin foil hat's slipping.

BootsAndRoots · 03/02/2022 19:30

@barleybadminton

I suppose I must have met tens and thousands of people in my life - we all have. I can count on the fingers of one hand - OK, possibly two hands - the number of times I've mistaken a woman for a man or vice versa.

This doesn't make sense. You can't possibly know all the times you were mistaken, unless you've asked everyone you've ever met what sex they were assigned at birth, thay's kind of the nature of making a mistake.

How does assignment of sex at birth work? Does the doctor get a vagina or penis out of a box and put that on a baby?

Sex is recorded/acknowledged at birth. Sex is assigned at conception.

What is the current idea, sex is constant and you change gender or sex can be changed, but gender can't? If gender is now fixed why are people called transgender as that says you're changing gender?

BernardBlackMissesLangCleg · 03/02/2022 19:28

are we doing 'it's really hard to tell what sex someone is'?

it isn't you know, it's dead easy to tell almost all the time

BootsAndRoots · 03/02/2022 19:25

I would be very suspicious about this whole incident, could well be something posted by a TRA and that none of this actually happened.

Rheopecticfluid · 03/02/2022 19:25

And if medical staff had decided this woman was trans and placed her on the men's ward and she was abused that's just fine then is it?

Oh your faux concern is touching.
Shame you don't extend that to women being forced to share sex segregated spaces with men.
But in answer to your concern, if birth certificates were accurate rather than altered, there would be no need to place anyone in the space of the opposite sex.
Would there.