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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Single sex spaces

332 replies

piloswi · 08/08/2025 15:02

I’m confused with single sex spaces and trans people and what people want.

My understanding is everyone must use the single sex space of their biological sex (I might be wrong). This is only spoken about in terms of trans women now having to use men’s toilets, etc. But this means trans men must use women’s toilets. So someone who looks like a man but biologically isn’t but mostly (imo) you can’t really tell with trans men whereas you often can with trans women.

Is this what the majority want? Surely if people are worried about ‘predatory men’ pretending to be a trans woman to use single sex spaces then they could equally claim to be a trans man as you can’t really ask them to prove it can you?

I guess I’m just wondering if I’m missing the point the point? Are the majority happy with this? I’ve seen posts of people being very happy with the ruling but only have spoken about trans women.

I don’t want this to be a trans bashing thread. Just would like to know what people would like to see as their ideal for single sex spaces while still respecting people

OP posts:
Helleofabore · 08/08/2025 20:45

Helleofabore · 08/08/2025 17:56

Well.... isn't it a pity that the post it was directly answering which was about male body parts has been deleted.

Keeping trying to twist what was said out of the context that it was said in.

Again, I was very specific that it was in reply only to the labelling of a male person's surgically added cavity as a vagina.

"And what is this identical anatomy called on biological females given apparently not serving this purpose makes it a fuck hole?"

I am happy to keep repeating it. As can be read in my previous posts, if a female person has a vagina reconstruction, it is a vagina reconstruction.

Can you please state the 'function' of a cavity that has been inserted into a male body?

Oh. Look. Here is the full interaction that has been twisted out of context.

ByTealFish • Today 16:03

No? It's not a 'fuckhole', and it's also not an open wound as some have said, it's no more of a wound than any other vagina. It's a body cavity lined by epithelial tissue. It's not a gaping hole into your abdominal cavity.

Dilation simply helps the muscles around it stay open and stops scars from causing it to contract.

Cis women who undergo certain types of vaginal surgery have to dilate too for the same reasons.

Non-inversion vaginoplasty is also performed on cis women who require reconstruction after severe injury and the like. It's a vagina, not a gaping wound.

And my answer.

Today 16:12

What is the purpose of this inserted cavity again?

There is NO purpose other than to be a fuckhole or to represent a fuckhole if it is even usable. Do you understand what we are saying? Or are you programmed to believe in falsehoods.

Just because a female person might have a similar process doesn’t make it a ‘vagina’ when inserted into male body. A female person’s reconstructive surgery is just that, replacing a body part. Not creating a false one. A female reconstruction has other body mechanisms to support it including a vulva and a cervix and a uterus etc.

I happened to have it open on another device so I copied and posted it.

The context is as I said it was. I was only replying to the poster who was doubling down on female vaginas and reconstructed vaginas being directly comparative with a cavity inserted in a male groin. I was very clear that female vaginas are not comparable. In fact, I said this quite clearly:

“A female person’s reconstructive surgery is just that, replacing a body part. Not creating a false one.”

It is quite something to see the fuckwittery attempted on this thread.

winzomm · 08/08/2025 20:45

The Supreme Court has spoken. So shut the fuck up now you mangina maniacal linguistical gymnast.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 08/08/2025 20:41

Seems unlikely, given that a Woman wouldn't need male arousal, would she.

niadainud · 08/08/2025 20:24

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 08/08/2025 19:56

It would make sense, wouldn't it. Since only men have those, so a Women (let's give the poor chap a capital initial: he needs all the help he can get) doesn't need one.

actually and seriously, is this done? removing the prostate as part of attempted resexing, I mean?

Edited to add; the answer seems to be "sometimes, but by no means always". Hmmmm.

Edited

Would that be because of its role in male arousal, perchance?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 08/08/2025 19:56

It would make sense, wouldn't it. Since only men have those, so a Women (let's give the poor chap a capital initial: he needs all the help he can get) doesn't need one.

actually and seriously, is this done? removing the prostate as part of attempted resexing, I mean?

Edited to add; the answer seems to be "sometimes, but by no means always". Hmmmm.

WithSilverBells · 08/08/2025 19:50

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 08/08/2025 19:38

Helleofabore
Can you please state the 'function' of a cavity that has been inserted into a male body?

I'll have a stab at that, since it clearly is not going to get an answer from the person you are asking.

The function of a cavity (this particular sort of cavity, anyway; there may be others) inserted into a male body is to bolster the mistaken belief of a male person that he can pretend to be a female person with even the slightest degree of credibility – at least, he can do so among the credulous.

Why not remove the prostate at the same time though?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 08/08/2025 19:38

Helleofabore
Can you please state the 'function' of a cavity that has been inserted into a male body?

I'll have a stab at that, since it clearly is not going to get an answer from the person you are asking.

The function of a cavity (this particular sort of cavity, anyway; there may be others) inserted into a male body is to bolster the mistaken belief of a male person that he can pretend to be a female person with even the slightest degree of credibility – at least, he can do so among the credulous.

RapidOnsetGenderCritic · 08/08/2025 19:33

niadainud · 08/08/2025 18:59

Or, as I said to a friend earlier today, if I stick a mane on my cat it doesn't make it a lion.

And if I stick a mane on a lioness it doesn't make it a lion.

niadainud · 08/08/2025 19:17

I see people with DSDs have been co-opted into the debate again...

WithSilverBells · 08/08/2025 19:11

TheBerry · 08/08/2025 18:55

I know, but I reckon if a woman walked into the bathroom and actually saw a massive, burly trans man in there she’d feel a bit taken aback. On the other hand, she might not even register if a trans woman was in there.

I feel like the reality of the situation isn’t what people are imagining.

Well, we have spent quite a bit of time looking at trans-identified males and females irl and online and the vast majority of them do look like their actual sex, especially when you see them move and hear them talk. I think you are imagining that lots of them 'pass' because you are looking at filtered photos online, carefully posed so that you cannot judge the scale of their hands, the shape of their hips and so on.

Helleofabore · 08/08/2025 19:08

TheBerry · 08/08/2025 18:58

Well, then, I suppose trans women who are very female looking will be in the women’s. But they shouldn’t be, according to a lot of people.

Why would a person that 'looks' like a female but is male be entitled to use the female single sex provisions?

Just because they have extreme body modifications?

There are other types of extreme body modifications. For instance, if someone undergoes extensive body modifications to resemble their favourite animal, should that person be considered as that animal?

If someone 'looks' like a young teenager but is in their twenties and not enrolled in school, should they be treated like the age they feel and may even 'look'?

Why does this group of male people get these additional privileges, access to female single sex spaces, when other male people don't?

BackToLurk · 08/08/2025 19:03

TheBerry · 08/08/2025 18:58

Well, then, I suppose trans women who are very female looking will be in the women’s. But they shouldn’t be, according to a lot of people.

Wait! What? Transwomen will go into single sex spaces even though they know it can make lots of women uncomfortable*? They sound terrible.

*in reality most people know that truly passing transwomen may continue to use the ladies, and no one would know. There are however only about 5 of them.

Merrymouse · 08/08/2025 19:02

TheBerry · 08/08/2025 18:50

Personally I couldn’t give a shit if a transwoman used the women’s bathroom. I think the men who are a threat to women are more often the red-blooded cis men who don’t need to sneak into a women’s bathroom in order to harass women.

A lot of trans men are very, very male looking, very hairy, ripped up, and I’d definitely feel weirder about seeing one of them in the women’s bathroom than a somewhat androgynous looking trans woman. I think most people would, if it actually came down to it.

I don't tend to use public baths, but if you mean toilets, if anyone can use any toilet, that includes 'red-blooded cis men'. If you think toilets should be mixed then you are free to make that argument, but you seem to be erroneously assuming that 'red-blooded cis men' could be kept out of a toilet that they wanted to use as though there is a clear way to distinguish between trans women and 'cis' men.

Helleofabore · 08/08/2025 19:01

TheUnusuallyQuerulentMxLauraBrown · 08/08/2025 18:58

lol.

’massive burly’ is not an accurate descriptor for any of the transmen I have ever met or read about or seen on tv.

Well, in photos they might. But the perceptions change quite often in real life.

And those hips do not lie. (meaning that female movement doesn't lie)

Helleofabore · 08/08/2025 19:00

TheBerry · 08/08/2025 18:55

I know, but I reckon if a woman walked into the bathroom and actually saw a massive, burly trans man in there she’d feel a bit taken aback. On the other hand, she might not even register if a trans woman was in there.

I feel like the reality of the situation isn’t what people are imagining.

And yet, the SC judgement thought of that very thing and discussed options to address "a woman walked into the bathroom and actually saw a massive, burly trans man".

Strangely, the trans men that come and post on MN tell us that they understand that they might cause other women and girls distress if they have taken testosterone, so the ones who post generally tell us they seek alternative solutions.

"I feel like the reality of the situation isn’t what people are imagining."

Maybe you should hang around and read for yourself when female people who have taken testosterone post as many of us have read. I think that we actually do have an understanding of reality of the situation.

niadainud · 08/08/2025 18:59

Helleofabore · 08/08/2025 16:20

No.

Because it is not a vagina.

What part of this do you not understand or try to understand?

If I make my dog look absolutely convincing to be a cat, will you accept that dog as a cat?

You seem deeply indoctrinated in the philosophical theory that says that if something is labelled as something, it must be considered that thing. Postmodernist theory.

No. It is completely irrelevant that plastic surgeons might do a convincing job. The male person with that inserted cavity is a male person still and that cavity is not a vagina in ANY way.

Do you understand the misogyny of describing that cavity as a vagina when that cavity really serves no purpose except as hole?

Vaginas are not ‘holes’, they serve quite a few purposes essential to life. A cavity inserted into a male body serves no purpose at all that is essential to life.

Or, as I said to a friend earlier today, if I stick a mane on my cat it doesn't make it a lion.

TheUnusuallyQuerulentMxLauraBrown · 08/08/2025 18:58

TheBerry · 08/08/2025 18:55

I know, but I reckon if a woman walked into the bathroom and actually saw a massive, burly trans man in there she’d feel a bit taken aback. On the other hand, she might not even register if a trans woman was in there.

I feel like the reality of the situation isn’t what people are imagining.

lol.

’massive burly’ is not an accurate descriptor for any of the transmen I have ever met or read about or seen on tv.

TheBerry · 08/08/2025 18:58

BackToLurk · 08/08/2025 18:55

Transmen who are 'very, very male looking' will be in the men's. HTH

Well, then, I suppose trans women who are very female looking will be in the women’s. But they shouldn’t be, according to a lot of people.

TheUnusuallyQuerulentMxLauraBrown · 08/08/2025 18:57

Yelleryeller · 08/08/2025 18:05

What's the function of it in bio females with this anatomy? Given you're saying the function makes it's a fuckhole because it can't serve this other purpose you won't describe that would make it a vagina?

A flayed and inverted penis could be described as ‘fuckhole’ if you insist but it’s deffo not a vagina.

You can’t turn a penis into a vagina in the same way you can’t make a liver into a lung.

TheBerry · 08/08/2025 18:55

WithSilverBells · 08/08/2025 18:53

...and yet that is not what opinion polls say. Overwhelmingly, the British public want people to use the facilities allocated to their sex.

I know, but I reckon if a woman walked into the bathroom and actually saw a massive, burly trans man in there she’d feel a bit taken aback. On the other hand, she might not even register if a trans woman was in there.

I feel like the reality of the situation isn’t what people are imagining.

BackToLurk · 08/08/2025 18:55

Boiledbeetle · 08/08/2025 18:54

Both!

I'm going to need a bigger bingo card

BackToLurk · 08/08/2025 18:55

TheBerry · 08/08/2025 18:50

Personally I couldn’t give a shit if a transwoman used the women’s bathroom. I think the men who are a threat to women are more often the red-blooded cis men who don’t need to sneak into a women’s bathroom in order to harass women.

A lot of trans men are very, very male looking, very hairy, ripped up, and I’d definitely feel weirder about seeing one of them in the women’s bathroom than a somewhat androgynous looking trans woman. I think most people would, if it actually came down to it.

Transmen who are 'very, very male looking' will be in the men's. HTH

Boiledbeetle · 08/08/2025 18:54

BackToLurk · 08/08/2025 18:54

So I don't have to read the whole thread are they doing "what about transmen?" or "what about biological women who don't have uteri (or other bits)?". I'm a big fan of the last one as it reveals they do, in fact, know exactly what a woman is.

Both!

RedToothBrush · 08/08/2025 18:54

Yelleryeller · 08/08/2025 18:34

There's absolutely women who's vaginas don't function in this way because of medical conditions and therefore don't have the same flora and lubricate etc. Is it so much to say just not to not call them fuckholes on a feminist board because you think you're throwing an insult at one group but actually throwing it at a bunch of women as well?

You aren't even pretending anymore.

You aren't a feminist if you don't accept that men who decide to get a cavity are the same as women albeit women with disorders because you are being mean to these biological women.

No.

The attempt at smearing doesn't stick.

We see you.

We did from the word go.

BackToLurk · 08/08/2025 18:54

So I don't have to read the whole thread are they doing "what about transmen?" or "what about biological women who don't have uteri (or other bits)?". I'm a big fan of the last one as it reveals they do, in fact, know exactly what a woman is.