Entitled male refused access to female changing area (despite wearing skirt)

How lovely!

Must be hard to recruit and retain hotel staff nowadays - money isn’t great and the hours are antisocial…

The Mecure are lucky to have this employee. Let’s hope they realise it!

And nor should Anne have to. Anne should be able to wear whatever the chuff Anne fancies to put on in the morning. But Anne should also be capable of understanding that Anne's choice of clothes don't change Anne's sex.

Avalanche of TRAs leaving stinking reviews in 3....2....1....

Back to the hotel from the original story, customers on TripAdvisor seem pleased with the customer service...

I'm fairly convinced the DIE acronym was no accident, either.

I've never see this written in any other way than EDI.

And the problem is, this kind of overt or covert threat runs true to type when it comes to this movement. Nasty, indeed.

• the Isla Bryson of the swimming world

Oh so sad!

We have been conditioned to associate feeling dysphoria with being 'trans'; to the extent that dysphoric feelings towards the body is a foolproof indicator that someone is trans

Totally agree. Combined with a belief in gender identity, this is what's helping so many adolescent girls in particular conclude (incorrectly) that they aren't girls after all.

However, I just wanted to add a bit of balance that there are people for whom gender identity is real (I'm not one of them) and because of the combination of their belief and the distress at their body, what they feel is "gender dysphoria".

It remains to be seen whether the public believes Anne is one of them or is they think Anne is Isla Bryson of the swimming world. There are many more Isla Brysons of many more worlds, of course.

https://tech.lgbt/@annecoombes/110137389049390874

^Lying here thinking i should really try to sleep but knowing that all i will do is go over and over the announcement today by Swim England of their update rules for trans and non-binary competitors which will prevent me from competing as a female.
Not happy is an understatement.^

Thank you once again, Swim England.

What we are now calling gender dysphoria, at one point would just have been dysphoria - which by definition is mental distress that fixates and channles that distress towards the body, or towards a certain part of the body.

That the 'gender' descriptor has in more recent years been attached to dysphoria distorts the reality that behind the dysphoric feelings there is some kind of emotional or mental distress. We have been conditioned to associate feeling dysphoria with being 'trans'; to the extent that dysphoric feelings towards the body is a foolproof indicator that someone is trans

Nobody is denying or doubting that people can feel intense distress and that distress can be concentrated on certain parts of the body - but what they are rejecting is the concept of someone being 'genuinely trans'.

(... but no, I don't believe that transwomen are women. I am happy to call them transwomen and according to my own "belief system" of biological science, I am happy that I understand what that means)

In fairness to anyone who genuinely feels gender dysphoria (no, I don't have a gender and I don't believe in gender identity but I accept and understand that others do and that gender dysphoria is real), these phrases seem reasonable and could describe someone in distress at their body.

However. It is equally possible for someone to say the words that make sense when it gets them something that they want. Much as the bad apples did who infiltrated the church.

For me, the far greater issue is the impact that words like these have on a) vulnerable children and adults and b) allies who are being kind who all don't realise that they have a choice whether or not to believe in gender identity or not. It is presented as fact.

I'm sympathetic, I'm sure that was very difficult.

But why is this supposed to justify excluding and distressing women and wanting to walk through changing rooms (intentionally, without need) where they are in a state of undress? Are women's bodies some kind of consolation prize?

The views v likes😱😱😱 you need to click on the image for the two lots of figures. Id credit who tweeted them but Twitter refreshed as i saved the second one

"I suppressed those desires to be female and fitted in with the boys as best I could."

"I can remember wishing I was female at the age of seven."

So, in Anne's own words, wishing to be female is what makes someone a trans woman?

Found his old blog, back when he was still going by Paul ..

https://graspthemettle.blogspot.com/search/label/Women?m=0

https://graspthemettle.blogspot.com/2009/05/some-are-more-equal-than-others.html?m=0

Not surprised, given the (rightly deserved) pasting Anne was getting on Twitter.

Anne was learning that women and girls aren’t going to put up with this kind of behaviour.

Ah, good job really, as I’ve been sorely tempted to open a new Twitter account. Torn between wanting to deplete Musk’s user base and wanting to be a newly-terf tweep.

Maybe Anne should have thought about consequences of shouting their mouth off online - its spectacularly backfired

https://annecoombes.medium.com/a-transgender-ama-abe0648cfbbb

My daughter had this thing about not liking buttons down the front of her dress so, for a couple of years. she wore those dresses back-to-front.

The creep has a daughter. I wonder what she thinks of all this nonsense of him pretending to be a woman and the rest of it.

Yes it has caused another jump in this whole struggle between rights

Anne Coombes is off twitter

I think Anne may regret posting that tweet about re educating the hotel worker- it opened up a bit of a Pandoras box

Not much delete-worthy stuff that I’ve seen. I particularly enjoy the contortions to avoid misgendering, “Anneself”, etc, which must drive the #BeKinders wild.

I would imagine the same monitors who have been busy on the other thread about volunteer swim officials and their behaviour will be all over this one, striving for maximum deletions….

As always.

☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

According to the trans widows threads it’s just a matter of time.

According to Anne’s Reddit account transition began because Anne was able to cross dress all-day every-day during lockdown.
Anne just didn’t want to go back to the office in a suit and tie, I guess?