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So now that the Supreme Court has ruled that Woman means biological female,

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DialSquare · 16/04/2025 14:14

can we now correctly sex males when posting on Mumsnet?

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PriOn1 · 18/04/2025 07:05

myplace · 18/04/2025 07:02

Robin was on R4 yesterday or perhaps the day before, sounding as male and irritating as possible. Fairly sure he said, without challenge, he would continue using the ladies. Woman’s Hour, it was.

Yes, I saw someone commenting on that. My thought was that, now we know the law is behind us, that women will feel safer in complaining about obvious men who continue to force their way into women’s single sex spaces. These men might find that the way forward is no longer made so easy for them.

myplace · 18/04/2025 07:02

Robin was on R4 yesterday or perhaps the day before, sounding as male and irritating as possible. Fairly sure he said, without challenge, he would continue using the ladies. Woman’s Hour, it was.

myplace · 18/04/2025 07:00

“What we have been told is that we are allowed to say people are male and call them he where it is relevant to the discussion.”

I had missed this, @PriOn1 It’s interesting how quickly changes sweep across the board.

PriOn1 · 18/04/2025 06:50

myplace · 18/04/2025 06:39

I would assume it’s ok to say ‘Jenny is a trans identifying male’.

To be honest, I think in recent months we’ve been managing Jenny is male, He’s a man, at least about people whose behaviour is dubious- criminals and sportsmen in the wrong sex category.

I think we’ve been avoiding pronouns for the likes of Eddie/Suzie and India.

Eddie has said himself that he doesn’t mind which you use and as far as I am aware, Mumsnet has let that stand.

What we have been told is that we are allowed to say people are male and call them he where it is relevant to the discussion.

There are certain male people who follow this board and complain, I believe, when they are correctly sexed. One of them, Robin Moira White, is a lawyer and, it is assumed, uses his lawyerly credentials to have such posts removed. It will be interesting to see, now that the Supreme Court has confirmed that he is legally a man, whether that will make a difference. Obviously, in this post, his sex is entirely pertinent to the point I am making.

myplace · 18/04/2025 06:39

I would assume it’s ok to say ‘Jenny is a trans identifying male’.

To be honest, I think in recent months we’ve been managing Jenny is male, He’s a man, at least about people whose behaviour is dubious- criminals and sportsmen in the wrong sex category.

I think we’ve been avoiding pronouns for the likes of Eddie/Suzie and India.

shrinkingthiswinter · 18/04/2025 06:33

I hope so because the court judgement itself does.

Helleofabore · 18/04/2025 06:15

Harassedevictee · 18/04/2025 04:29

I would hope we could at least use Male.

When I switched to ‘male person’, I was deleted much less. So I have stuck to that over the years. I hate it but the deletions were mounting up.

Harassedevictee · 18/04/2025 04:29

I would hope we could at least use Male.

Slawit · 18/04/2025 02:20

I am male and to the best of my knowledge I've always been doing sex correctly.

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