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Women with alopecia harassed in woman's toilets at airport

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Christinapple · 13/10/2024 15:03

https://x.com/lindSAYhanNAH3/status/1844696180887794159

I've said it several times, the gender critical movement harms all women. Any women who doesn't meet the criteria of what a woman "should look like" is at risk of being wrongly accused of being trans.

Also makes me wonder about that other thread about FWSSport. If a woman with alopecia plays sport with other women are people who are gender critical going to mistake her as a man and report her to FWSSport who will store data on her?

Women with alopecia harassed in woman's toilets at airport
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SensibleSigma · 13/10/2024 15:14

It’s an odd thing. I am very rarely even momentarily confused about what sex people are. I can remember two occasions this year where I took a second look. It really is t at al hard to tell. A bald woman looks absolutely nothing like a bald man.

If the upsetting incident is accurately described, then I’m afraid that’s a disturbed woman making accusations and is nothing at all to do with gender critical women.

StellaGreen · 13/10/2024 15:14

This never happened.

Women do not look like men if they have alopecia or are bald or have had chemo.

Sinead O'Connor anyone?

MiriamMay · 13/10/2024 15:14

Didn’t happen.

Dendee · 13/10/2024 15:14

The woman who tweeted this is GC

Women with alopecia harassed in woman's toilets at airport
RowdyTiel · 13/10/2024 15:12

Nope.

wincarwoo · 13/10/2024 15:11

By "all women" you mean men. We see you.

TofuTart · 13/10/2024 15:11

KizzyDora · 13/10/2024 15:08

Chinny reckon on this one.

Funny how people take it as gospel it must have happened if it's a "gender critical' anecdote on here, but as soon it's not fitting in with your view it's "chinny reckon" "must be lying's" all round.

GCAcademic · 13/10/2024 15:10

Yes, this definitely happened.

TofuTart · 13/10/2024 15:09

TWETMIRF · 13/10/2024 15:06

If men didn't keep insisting on barging their way into women's spaces then women wouldn't be suspicious.

Edited for typo

Edited

Jeez, did you mean to come across so "look at what you made us do?!" 🙄

KizzyDora · 13/10/2024 15:08

Chinny reckon on this one.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 13/10/2024 15:08

Yes im sure this totally happened

a bald woman looks nothing like a man - in fact it’s even easier to tell that they are a woman because you can see just how much smaller the bones of the skull are in a woman

PriOn1 · 13/10/2024 15:08

Source?

Most women claiming this stuff are transactivists. Those claiming these things are recognizably female when they show photographs.

Most women without hair are still obviously and visibly female.

Precipice · 13/10/2024 15:08

If any movement has led to this (single reported incident), it is the gender self-ID movement. If you have a movement that says that private sex-segregated places are no longer split by sex, but by internal self-identification (on the basis of sexist stereotypes, since they're not on biology), you're saying to women: there will be men in your spaces. This puts women on guard for... men in their spaces.

TofuTart · 13/10/2024 15:08

I've said it several times, the gender critical movement harms all women
I agree.

Corinthiana · 13/10/2024 15:07

Yes, @wrongthinker , I'm inclined to think it was one of those weird situations.

wrongthinker · 13/10/2024 15:07

I feel like this didn't happen. Women still look like women even if they don't have hair. I would challenge a male in the women's bathroom, but not without being 100% sure he was male. I suspect this either didn't happen or the woman accusing her was just totally bonkers.

TWETMIRF · 13/10/2024 15:06

If men didn't keep insisting on barging their way into women's spaces then women wouldn't be suspicious.

Edited for typo

Corinthiana · 13/10/2024 15:06

I find it highly improbable that a woman without hair has been mistaken for a man. We've all seen women with alopecia and those undergoing cancer treatment. They still present - very obviously - as women.
Whatever happened was clearly to do with something else entirely.