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The new “this is what a woman looks like” campaign

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Rumplestiltz · 08/06/2025 20:49

Apologies if this has been covered somewhere else, but I saw these billboards driving through an area of london today.
https://lgbt.foundation/thisiswhatawomanlookslike/
good lord I nearly crashed the car. This is the whole thing they just don’t get! It’s not about what we “look like”! We can look how we want! It’s about the biological reality of womanhood - menstruation, fertility, infertility, pregnancy, menopause. All the shit that goes with that. Not whether you have long hair and a pink top.

This is What a Woman Looks Like – LGBT Foundation

A national charity with LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do.

https://lgbt.foundation/thisiswhatawomanlookslike/

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Shortshriftandlethal · 09/06/2025 07:37

DuesToTheDirt · 08/06/2025 20:53

" all women – trans women, lesbian and bisexual women, women of colour, disabled women, older women, working-class women, migrant women, and many more"

Nice to see trans women coming first in the list of different types of "women".

Absolutely, and it is usually us here that get accused of 'othering'.

Freysimo · 09/06/2025 07:35

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 08/06/2025 20:58

I pledge to protect the rights of trans and non binary folk and stand up for their identities and freedoms.

I have to protect a bunch of people who are nothing to do with me now? A woman’s work is never done is it?

I'd like to know what rights DON'T they have? I feel sorry for those of you who live in big cities and have to put up with this. I live in a small Welsh village and don't have any of this nonsense.

DiaAssolellat · 09/06/2025 07:33

PermanentTemporary · 09/06/2025 07:18

I have to stand up for the rights of the nonbinary person I know who's a public school educated Oxbridge graduate who earns twice what I do?

Well I don't really, do I, because the Supreme Court ruling reaffirmed their rights under the Equality Act. All good.

Yes. As a man or as a woman. SC said nothing about non binary (it’s meaningless).

borntobequiet · 09/06/2025 07:31

WarriorN · 09/06/2025 07:24

much of this is young to be unlawful now

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It was really the state of the person in the picture that irritated me.

JasmineAllen · 09/06/2025 07:29

Bulldogdreams · 09/06/2025 03:44

It's never going to go away is it ..I thought the recent court ruling would be the end of such nonsense..but clearly not .

There have always been people who believe nonsense, you cant stop that. The difference today is they have the Internet to broadcast their nonsense.

Fortunately the vast majority see it as nonsense.

DragonRunor · 09/06/2025 07:27

Women are amazing. We are a ‘rich diverse tapestry’ already. We don’t need you to add men into the category to make us more amazing.

Maybe some men need help to recognise the enormous range of ways there are to be men, and to celebrate that. That is the way to improve life for transwomen

Men are not women

WarriorN · 09/06/2025 07:25

Well, it already was, but it’s going to be easier to report it 😁

WarriorN · 09/06/2025 07:24

borntobequiet · 09/06/2025 07:03

“Train your organisation”

much of this is young to be unlawful now

WarriorN · 09/06/2025 07:24

SinnerBoy · 08/06/2025 21:47

Can they be done under the Trades Descriptions Act?

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this would be a very interesting move

WarriorN · 09/06/2025 07:23

I find this gaslighty. It’s like the campaigns around mastectomies and normalising wonky boobs for younger women and girls, which are important for women.

once again the appropriation of female centred initiatives with wolves in sheep’s clothing.

JasmineAllen · 09/06/2025 07:23

TheAntiGardener · 08/06/2025 22:09

It’s like a question from a reading comprehension test: which one of these doesn’t belong in the list?

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I puts me in mind of the Sesame St song, 'One of these things is not like the other ones.......' 😂😂😂😂

Rightsraptor · 09/06/2025 07:20

KindLemonSquid · 09/06/2025 06:45

Ever think we might see a similar thing celebrating what a man is?

I'm sure someone will be along with one they've made very soon.

PermanentTemporary · 09/06/2025 07:18

I have to stand up for the rights of the nonbinary person I know who's a public school educated Oxbridge graduate who earns twice what I do?

Well I don't really, do I, because the Supreme Court ruling reaffirmed their rights under the Equality Act. All good.

ThatCyanCat · 09/06/2025 07:13

This is what circling the drain looks like...

DiaAssolellat · 09/06/2025 07:10

GreenFriedTomato · 09/06/2025 06:24

So this crap is fine but Posie Parker couldn't have a billboard that simply said a Woman is an adult human female.

Excellent point.

Love the cat / dog sticker, are they order-able?

AlwaysFreezing · 09/06/2025 07:07

So reductive. So Orwellian. So boring.

Let clothes be clothes.

Gaslighting nonsense that everyone knows is bollocks.

borntobequiet · 09/06/2025 07:03

“Train your organisation”

The new “this is what a woman looks like” campaign
JustFish · 09/06/2025 07:01

It's just so funny with the authoritarian wee campaigns, nonsense billboards and stroppy demands. Like the 'repeat after me' slogans projected onto buildings.

No, you don't get to change the meaning of words or people's perceptions by fiat,

This isn't educational or supportive but authoritarian, and it really isn't helping their cause as more and more people are seeing the cognitive dissonance of the trans ideology position, looking at the demands being made and going 'nope'

NeedForSpeed · 09/06/2025 06:55

The obvious men are obvious.

Nice to see that as a disabled woman, I'm being lumped in with a man in a frock.

Wankers.

Allthebestgone · 09/06/2025 06:53

Hilarious ! Leave site quickly! Their own site! In case some Nasty Terf comes watching over their shoulder! In case they get scaaaaaared, trigggggered, offfffffended, LOL and the gaal they think they can reflect womanhood 🤮

MontanaSapphire · 09/06/2025 06:53

It just seems ill thought out. If I wore that t shirt or added the banner/frame to my profiles, which they're suggesting we all do in solidarity, surely it would look a bit... transphobic?! Because I am a woman, so it would seem like I was saying this is what a woman looks like.

KindLemonSquid · 09/06/2025 06:45

Ever think we might see a similar thing celebrating what a man is?

GreenFriedTomato · 09/06/2025 06:40

viques · 09/06/2025 02:45

“Folk” , are we skipping barefoot round the maypole on the fucking village green waving pretty ribbons and singing green sleeves now? That’ll annoy the therians and the leather lovers.

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😂😅😀

(Because I can no longer laugh react to your post) 😂

I also clicked the 'leave site quickly' button after having a nosey at the rich and complex women - and reading that nonsense

AlexandraLeaving · 09/06/2025 06:36

So, by their TWAW logic, why are non-binary folk in there? Because I understood they were so special and their NB identities so valid that they were neither men nor women. So how come they are now a type of woman?