Beach Box Brighton cancels women only sauna session and apologises to TRAs

I know that this repeats, but it is the blindness to the majority caste that gets me.
"We want Beach Box to continue to be a space where everyone feels welcome and we’ll keep doing the work to make sure it feels that way.”
I feel the shades of "1066 and all that"'s discussion of the Magna Carta "excapt the common people" only in this case, "except the real women".

Looks like we’re all going to have an interesting experience!

What a mess this whole situation is though. Neither sex is guaranteed a single sex space. Both are equally discriminated against. I think a lawyer is needed to parse this one.

Because you need a special rainbow glitter passport to be a true, right thinking Brightonian. Not to mention ££££s in the bank to afford a house and to keep you in sheepskin Birkenstocks and oat milk from Waitrose.

Brighton has a sizeable cohort of gender critical feminists though. Salon sisters are great and plough on regardless x

Hmm, there's a "men and trans men" session on Thursday 26th June. I'd suggest a Man Friday Thursday event, but it's 35quid each!

Seems so. I thought these days in order to enter Brighton never mind live there you had to fully encapsulate TWAW, they are the MOST speshulest beautiful peoplezz eva, I as a lowly cis woman, knows my lowly place and I will never ever be as delicate, beautiful and feminine as they are?...

I must say I was - intrigued - by the location decision :)

As you say, should be fun.

Filia is going to be entertaining this year...

If it was just a matter of not being able to have a sauna session without cocks involved, I might just shrug and accept that Brighton gonna Brighton.

It's the North Korean hostage style apology that's the really bad part. What, do you people think it's still 2018?

How fucking surprising!

No idea why on earth they can’t have a women only event and add on a women icl trans event
would have been much easier

Oh no! Brighton used to be such a fun place. A bit sleazy, a bit shabby, easy-going, daring, a little bit dangerous, a lot of fun. Now it’s all overpriced tat and mind what you say.

Does the traliban turn everything to shit?

Cutted up pears

This is a real shame. I love that sauna and use it a lot.

Last week the TRA tantrum was about women having a consultation on women’s health in the library. Before that the tantrum was about lesbians wanting to celebrate same-sex attraction at Pride. This week it’s about women wanting a peaceful sauna without being ogled by men.

I wonder what next week’s tantrum will be 🙄

Everyone welcome except women apparently. I wonder how the LGBT session went.

I regularly thank my lucky stars that I live a really really long way from Brighton. I recently met a couple trying to move away from Brighton. They were very motivated to move. I wonder why.

But it wasn't a cis only event! Transmen could have gone along as well! God I'm so fed up of these idiots.

"promoting or hosting a cis-only event goes against everything we believe in"

"We want Beach Box to continue to be a space where everyone feels welcome."

Everyone, that is, except women who can tell the difference between men and women. What a bunch of wankers.

We are so, so sorry that women have legal rights and this displeases you <grovel>

Sod theyet more 'LGBT inclusion training' which very obviously has been men's rights training, some women's groups need to get in there and teach them about actual diversity, stat. They have major issues.

Exactly this.

I hope someone sends in a complaint and a Letter Before Action.

This could be either from a man who for direct sex discrimination (like in the WI thread) or from a woman for indirect discrimination (because there is no single sex facility available).

Given the route the spa has gone down - to create a mixed-sex space which excludes some but not all males - I assume a man challenging them for direct sex discrimination would be more successful.

Edited to add: IMNAL but I don't think the use or absence of the word "only" would change this.

The whole thing does sound a bit bonkers.

Queer isn't a protected characteristic 😡

What about the transmen? 😡

And yes, their TW-inclusive session is illegal sex-discrimination. Another job for Mr Cats?

Is there a script for these apologies? they’re so grovelling it makes me feel sick, especially in the context of a sauna where single sex sessions make sense, how could anyone be offended by that?

They can’t.

I guess that’s why they haven’t said ‘only’ - so they can argue it’s a session aimed at women and TW (bc they have so much in common) rather than exclusively for these two groups, but they obviously can’t exclude other men.

You couldn’t pay me to live in Brighton. Full of the smuggest wokiest wankers imaginable.