Jolyon Maugham says his wife was targeted in changing room

This was posted on the other thread. This only seems to have been about a week ago. It's hard to tell, because since JoMo's contribution his wife has deactivated. So we're supposed to believe that in the short time since she posted this, she was challenged, but didn't ever bother mentioning it. Not buying it

Edit to put link to image https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5336208-good-law-project-suing-the-ehrc-and-bridget-phillipson-letter-before-action?reply=144458686&utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

I don't know why people are giving this so much airtime, he's clearly lying, as per his track record.

"Her breasts were not what make her a woman"

Is this the same man demanding people get access to "gender affirming care" like breast enlargements because that helps men become women?

How did he manage to get into her kimono? 👘. It must have been very oversized.

This makes absolutely no sense. Say if you were a woman who spotted someone in the changing room with a scarred chest, you’d think a) warrior woman - been through a gruelling surgery - lots of empathy or b) woman/girl obviously had top surgery - lots of empathy. In neither of those scenarios would you be thinking this woman wasn’t a woman, not deserving of being in the woman’s changing room.

And so low to use his wife’s private health issues in this way.

Is anyone else utterly baffled by this??

Technically "she was challenged" could mean "she was challenged by a tricky lock on the cubicle door" or something, if you really wanted to make a tweet that was literally true but fundamentally misleading.

There are numerous flat-chested women out there, I wouldn’t blink if a flat-chested woman entered the ladies changing room. And if she stripped off in front of me then it is not as if bilateral mastectomy scares are invisible - even TRAs acknowledge that and use it to emphasis on the womanhood of women who identify as men by drawing mastectomy scares on them on their publicity material.

https://x.com/anyabike/status/1925454904866304323

"The woman who posted this invective on Bluesky a month ago has now, according to her husband, been "challenged" by "vigilantes" at the swimming pool. Meanwhile she has deleted these posts. What are the chances? And has the cat got her tongue?"

The reason I don't believe this happened is because women know what other women's bodies look like. Half the sports facilities I've ever used have had open plan changing of some sort (maybe like 3 cubicles which is meaningless when busy. The only places with enough cubicles tend to be the unisex changing villages).

In the 90s some of the high street clothing chains even had open plan fitting rooms!!

You can also see what women look like when they wear sports gear because of the way it's designed.

I think we're primed by our socialisation to be mildly interested in "the competition" and as we fight that socialisation it can be glorious to see the beauty of real women to counteract the filtered, airbrushed BS from ads and social media.

Women come in a staggering array of body shapes. Lots of women are relatively flat chested. Especially slim, petite women. It's nothing unusual.

Amazing that 6-foot plus men like Robin Moira White have used women's toilets for years with no problem (or so he says), but when a small, short-haired woman has a mastectomy, she's immediately challenged as being in the wrong place.

Funny isn’t it that women tend not to focus on breasts or lack of when “sexing” someone but men do ?

As JM is a lawyer who is known to be dishonest, I'd assume that "was challenged" technically means she found something difficult to do, or that someone suggested they have a race or something.

Unfortunately BC is very common and you'd have to be fairly unusual not to have encountered a woman with a mastectomy before.

I'd love to know exactly what does make her a woman, but JM is far too dishonest to ever suggest what he considers that to be.

I believe it's true in itself.

Curious that she posted a few weeks earlier about it as a hypothetical thing that might happen to her while constructing her own fantasy arguments.

I often wish I had your way with words, @RedToothBrush.

Male anti-lesbian and pro-puberty blocker campaigner in emotionally blackmailing lie about his wife health woes grift shocker

Oh Jolyon. Things that never happened number 5349 🙄

😂😂😂

This.

Incidentally very happy to reassure another woman who doesn't feel safe at any time that I'm not a man who does not care about her needs or feelings or boundaries, and is trying to deceive her because I want to use her as a validatory (or other) experience. That's fine. Can do that as often as necessary. Not a problem.

How humiliating for her; to be used as a figure in his made up stories designed to (presumably) curry favour with another family member for being on the right side of history, while he tweets about sliding into a prominent TIM’s DMs. He’s tanked his reputation.

I really do feel for his wife (even if she does support him) and I hope she's cancer free now and living a fulfilled life.

A mastectomy is not something that should be broadcast all over social media as a cheap gotcha. Have some bloody dignity, man.

That was what I thought the OP would say when I opened the thread.

Of course she was. As a tall short-haired woman who always wears trousers I’m expecting to be challenged next time I use the ladies. Seems constant. Interesting that the first person these unfortunates tell is always a TRA.

Maybe she was challenged for being married to a twat.

Because women pick on other women for having mastectomies all the time, of course they do. It's not like women ever have basic compassion or know women, often related to them, who have with breast cancer, or have a great deal of sympathy for a woman who's endured this.... 🙄What nonesense. I've seen pictures of his wife, no one would for a moment mistake her for a man.

This didn't happen. It's just yet more crowbarring to try and force non consenting women to submit to men in their spaces. Hence bizarrely claiming that women who want rights and privacy from men see other women as kind of inhuman lego constructs.

I don’t think this happened, but mostly because women hate confronting men in enclosed spaces. I doubt any men pass in the toilets, either women have got too much on to get involved with it right there and then, or they have lived experience of why it’s a bad idea to confront men, and put their own safety first.

edited to add comma.