Women's rights general conversations - Thread 10

There are no "trans" people. There are only men and women. It's not possible for humans to "trans". No matter what a person wears, no matter how much money is wasted on unconvincing plastic surgery, men are born as boy babies and women are born as girl babies and nothing can change that. Humans cannot "change" sex any more than they can change ethnicity, age, or species. It's all lies. "Transgenderism" is similar to believing in fairies, ghosts, god, magic, star signs or witchcraft. Just made up con trick nonsense. Usually by men for their benefit.

I think many women sometimes feel that way.

of a cliff

off ffs.

I wonder if stunningly beautiful women ever feel the same way.

I saw that earlier and felt really sorry for the female tortoises. Imagine being pestered by so many males you jump of a cliff.

I never knew tortoises were reptiles! Or perhaps I'd just never thought about it before.

Poor female tortoises 😟

https://archive.ph/A6dPK

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/hermanns-tortoises-extinction-population-golem-grad-sd6r07jgj

The species is temperature dependent sex determinate, lower temperatures will generally produce males.

It seems Lammy has stopped the deletion although I can't find anything on the BBC site.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/02/19/david-lammy-u-turns-deleting-grooming-gang-courts-archive/

I note that the multi-talented(?) Jordan Grey has a gig in Manchester on the 20th Feb. I was informed of this by a seat filling website who is doing the tickets at booking fee only, rather than the retail £24.

Have we had this? If this link works.

https://archive.ph/rscoI

Court archive revealing extent of grooming gangs scandal to be deleted. Sounds appalling on the face of it, especially in light of an enquiry going on.

Had a nice parcel arrive today with this rather lovely badge and more postcards and stuff. There's a long way to go, though.

Yes, I'd agree with that, they tend to become polarised immediately. I read the first few pages, then bowed out.

Heh! I've found in the past with similar threads, reading them is just depressing, so I'd prefer to read something else.

Or a suit of armour.

I think I'll skip that one!

It's absolutely not correct etiquette. However old-fashioned one is, correct etiquette for a no-longer-married (i.e. widowed or divorced) woman addresses her as Mrs Herfirstname Hissurname..

(gleaned from obsessional reading in my youth of a book about etiquette given to my parents as a joke wedding present)

Unless you have a particular reason for wanting to stay in touch, @YorkshirePuddingsGreatestFan, I would be returning to sender marked Not At This Address. Your name is YOUR name. Your relative doesn't get to pick it for you.

Architects can't do anything about the ones that started as perfectly legal single-sex loos, which the schools have then changed the signs on.

I've worked with architects in the past (building and civil engineering field), and that's what I would have thought too. But then I read about all these schools which have non-legal toilets and changing-rooms, and wonder how that comes about. Someone has drawn up the plans, someone has signed off on them.

My DH is an architect. There are a lot of building codes they have to follow, and they have to follow whatever the laws are in the place where they are licensed and also what the client wants them to do. There’s not much wiggle room for personal opinions.

I don't know if there is a thread in this, but it struck me, seeing posts on SM about new builds in schools, and the toilet arrangements; where are RIBA on this? Architects design the buildings we all use, surely their members should be working in accordance with the law? Are they captured?

Another vv interesting Reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1qncy55/do_we_ever_tell_anyone_they_are_not_transgender/

A lot of the commentators seem to be medics. I found the group 1 vs group 2 discussion early in the thread interesting -

"YES. I have had this discussion with a number of trans people. Being a trans paramedic myself, I've seen it in friends and patients too.
Group 1: is the generally more binary, focusing on passing/fitting in, and exhibit significant distress with delays or difficulties in transitioning
Group 2: more of the radical acceptance, more likely to be wishy-washy on transitioning or exhibit less distress with not transitioning.
This bimodal distribution should inform the care plan, imo. This stuff would be a giant can of worms in any trans discourse space, but it's a real thing."

I do wonder what future generations will think of it all. Will they get the full details that 0.02% of people identified as 'potato', or will they just see that a certain number reported themselves as 'other'.

Oh, that's very good.

Starting in 2021, the CES instead asked “What is your gender?” with four options: “Man,” “Woman,” “Non-binary,” and “Other.” When respondents chose “Other,” they could then type in the term of their choosing.

Several people, though, took the opportunity to protest the question, often loudly. “Humans don’t have gender, they have sex,” wrote one. “There should only be two answers to this question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” wrote another, with too many exclamation points to easily count. There were several variations on this theme: “Man, the only other real choice is woman. The rest is insanity,” “My gender is not ‘woman.’ My sex is female,” “Gender is bullshit, sex is real,” “I have no gender. I am an adult human female,”