‘Trans women have been using women's spaces for years’

velvet at what point do you think this might become a problem for other women and girls? Especially those frightened by men too? I understand that boys men with learning disabilities for example need to be catered for but not at the expense of others. So should use the facilities for disabled people.

my son is 11 and frightened of men, he has severe anxiety problems if he went into the mens

So he goes in the women's?

Under normal circumstances, I of course see nothing wrong with changing in the communal areas.

An intact male, though, even if a genuine transwoman, looks to be making some sort of point.

he uses the mens in school but theres a difference between boys and adult men, hopefully he gets better as he gets bigger.

@DrSbaitso

Yeah I just go to the other gym now. Which has actually worked out better as it’s cheaper and closer to kids school so can’t complain really. But yeah, intact. But dressed in women sports clothes/costume. I did mention it but the worker said there are private cubicles I could use which I can’t argue with because there are, just there are only a few. Also if I take dds swimming there in the holidays I don’t want them seeing that in the changing area. Especially not dd6 as she’s not the most sensitive type.

If there's no issues here then TW can use the facilities for their sex.

If feelings, dignity, privacy, safety matter, then they matter for all, not just the male sex.

And we're not leaving some female people with nothing so that male people can have their preferred choice of everything. Because obviously to think that was ok you'd have to have a screw loose.

• by which I mean the men's.

Or, dangerous

Single sex. Gender is a feeling. Some people don't even have one. The poster is making the point that people of any gender can use the correct toilet for their sex. Nobody is left without facilities.

If it's 'just a toilet' and it doesn't matter why can't TW use it?

When I mentioned to a fellow parent that this was the policy, she didn't believe me. It's not that everyone thinks TWAW and it's fine, it's "yeah tolerant blah blah - they wouldn't actually expect my daughter to change next to a male child though, that would be crazy"

It's almost as if some people regard some social conventions as an immersive fiction and are startled to learn that the immersive fiction will be manifest in a material reality right next to themselves or their family members…

So you now cannot use your local pool unless you consent to naked males changing in your communal area with you?

Lia Thomas's teammates have reported the same. So they can't participate in college sports, can't keep their scholarships, and may lose their college places - if they won't consent to penis in communal changing area.

Headteacher at DS school told me if a child wasn't happy changing with opposite sex present, they could go to a separate private room. I think headteacher is hoping it won't happen or that girls can be bullied into compliance because there is 1 small separate room, potentially 29 girls changing and one tg.
When I mentioned to a fellow parent that this was the policy, she didn't believe me. It's not that everyone thinks TWAW and it's fine, it's "yeah tolerant blah blah - they wouldn't actually expect my daughter to change next to a male child though, that would be crazy"

Precisely.

No one has ever measured or counted the female people who dropped their eyes and tactfully, politely, got the fuck out of Dodge.

There are many of us. Many.

But we're only female, so no one cares.

However please note the repeating of 'females have no rights under the EqAct2010; and the whole smothering of all other protected characteristics beneath one ,while at the same time the determination to get these apparently useless exceptions out of the EqAct.

Females need to start shouting about inclusion that excludes, and which always means prioritising male over female. If inclusion matters, then everyone is entitled to an accessible space. It can't just matter for people with penises.

Also, the fact that @Kanaloa has gone elsewhere won't appear in any official stats, so someone can say, "It's been happening for years & there's been no problems."

@Kanaloa, so you have an intact male person changing in the women's communal areas in your local gym, getting fully naked, and there's nothing any woman can do except go somewhere else and hope it doesn't happen there? So you now cannot use your local pool unless you consent to naked males changing in your communal area with you?

This isn't even law...

I was so hoping CatherinaJTV would answer my question about the number of women and girls she considers acceptable collateral damage in her Brave New World of putting women in with men to make men behave better.

Easy really

Woman's toilets -Female sex, mixed gender

Men's toilets - Male sex, mixed gender

Inclusive

Gosh this is so frightening isnt it.

Women no longer have the right to complain about penises in their changing rooms.

Or penises in their rape crisis centres.

Or penises in their hospital bays.

This is horrid.

Some women have penises, get over it bigot. If you don't like it you don't have to use it.

Is what would happen these days. It's what the whole 'Trans women are Women' mantra is all about.