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New female single sex student society launched at Cambridge university

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WarriorN · 27/10/2025 09:58

https://genderblog.net/cambridge-students-launch-single-sex-society-for-women/

this is fantastic news. The background to their story is however concerning. It should have never got this bad.

https://x.com/cusocofwomen/status/1982732118695215164?s=46&t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

New female single sex student society launched at Cambridge university
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PrettyDamnCosmic · 24/12/2025 14:42

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:35

Of course it does. Lets not pretend Cambridge is 30% trans or something, and if most abuse are not coming from straight men, then how would a woman only society help things? Sure the women against them just join and continue there.

Have you fundamentally misunderstood the issue here? Thea, Maeve, Serena et al found that all the student societies claiming to be for women were in fact including men who dress up as women or even claiming to be women. So the Lesbian society includes both female lesbians & men who claim that they too are lesbians. They have suffered a great deal of abuse for merely forming a society for women that included only women.

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:40

NotAtMyAge · 24/12/2025 14:34

That is a fact about yourself that no-one can know on an anonymous forum, so any offence was unwitting and unintended and I apologise for it. However standing up in public among your peers for a belief which goes against the zeitgeist is not the same thing and these young women really are brave to do so. Being totally ostracised by erstwhile friends is deeply hurtful at any age, but particularly when you're young.

I'm led to believe that they believe "men can't be women". So the abuse is calling them transphobic or the fact they are doing a "woman only society". If its the Trans thing, I just cannot imagine the majority of straight men caring or being against that belief. As straight men would have more influence. If it's the later and people are against a woman only group......I thought that already existed at Cambridge University.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/12/2025 14:39

Anyway, you clearly know very little about this issue, so I’ll leave it there, but hopefully why it’s brave for these young women to do this has been explained to you sufficiently 🤷‍♀️

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/12/2025 14:37

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:35

Of course it does. Lets not pretend Cambridge is 30% trans or something, and if most abuse are not coming from straight men, then how would a woman only society help things? Sure the women against them just join and continue there.

Many “trans” are straight men, hth.

NotAtMyAge · 24/12/2025 14:35

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:29

Bullied by whom? Must be other women/teacher facility. I just can't imagine straight men being against women saying "meant can't be women".

You need to go on social media like X and see the abuse aimed by straight men at women who dare to stand up for women's sex-based rights. It's known as misogyny and is as old as human society.

Edited for SPAG

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:35

TheKeatingFive · 24/12/2025 14:31

I believe it's students in general. Does it matter what sex they are?

Of course it does. Lets not pretend Cambridge is 30% trans or something, and if most abuse are not coming from straight men, then how would a woman only society help things? Sure the women against them just join and continue there.

NotAtMyAge · 24/12/2025 14:34

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:16

I'm non-white. Would you like to retract that ignorant statement of yours?

That is a fact about yourself that no-one can know on an anonymous forum, so any offence was unwitting and unintended and I apologise for it. However standing up in public among your peers for a belief which goes against the zeitgeist is not the same thing and these young women really are brave to do so. Being totally ostracised by erstwhile friends is deeply hurtful at any age, but particularly when you're young.

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:31

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 24/12/2025 14:23

You think because the institution is privileged overall there can’t be bullying in it?
I’m sure all the kids who were abused at elite public schools over the years wish that was the case.

No, but I think the women in question are more than likely privileged, especially compared to the rest of the population.

TheKeatingFive · 24/12/2025 14:31

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:29

Bullied by whom? Must be other women/teacher facility. I just can't imagine straight men being against women saying "meant can't be women".

I believe it's students in general. Does it matter what sex they are?

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:29

TheKeatingFive · 24/12/2025 14:17

They've been bullied by their fellow students for holding extraordinary views like 'men can't become women' and 'women deserve single sex spaces'.

Bullied by whom? Must be other women/teacher facility. I just can't imagine straight men being against women saying "meant can't be women".

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 24/12/2025 14:23

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:15

Appalling abuse from where? From whom? They're in Cambridge university. Not exactly the bastion of oppression.

You think because the institution is privileged overall there can’t be bullying in it?
I’m sure all the kids who were abused at elite public schools over the years wish that was the case.

TheKeatingFive · 24/12/2025 14:17

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:15

Appalling abuse from where? From whom? They're in Cambridge university. Not exactly the bastion of oppression.

They've been bullied by their fellow students for holding extraordinary views like 'men can't become women' and 'women deserve single sex spaces'.

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:16

NotAtMyAge · 24/12/2025 13:43

You've obviously never been willing to speak out in defence of what you know to be right, knowing that doing so would open you to appalling abuse from the intolerant and blinkered.

I'm non-white. Would you like to retract that ignorant statement of yours?

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 14:15

TheKeatingFive · 24/12/2025 13:39

Standing up for the rights of women in the face of appalling abuse. Duh.

Appalling abuse from where? From whom? They're in Cambridge university. Not exactly the bastion of oppression.

NotAtMyAge · 24/12/2025 13:43

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 13:36

Whats brave about it?

You've obviously never been willing to speak out in defence of what you know to be right, knowing that doing so would open you to appalling abuse from the intolerant and blinkered.

TheKeatingFive · 24/12/2025 13:39

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 13:36

Whats brave about it?

Standing up for the rights of women in the face of appalling abuse. Duh.

BrightLights989 · 24/12/2025 13:36

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/10/2025 11:18

Brilliant and brave young women ❤️

Whats brave about it?

Imdunfer · 21/12/2025 08:30

BingBongSong · 20/12/2025 07:59

A recent article from the Times. The SU's statements irritated me. I'm pretty sure the Society of Women will not be indulging in behaviour that is "abusive, offensive, violent or criminal, or publishing material that is grossly inaccurate­, defamatory, deliberately misleading, harmful or menacing." Hmm

https://www.thetimes.com/article/23972190-f438-414e-b408-fe19689e75a7?shareToken=391d80dfaed0001c1aa7f23c8b6ec407

The problem is that they define "harmful" as refusing to accept that a man can ever become a woman, saying that it's harmful to trans people to state that view. In their book, the existence of the women only group is harmful by definition.

Universities, and Cambridge in particular, are sounding very divorced from the real, rational, world lately.

MistyGreenAndBlue · 20/12/2025 23:58

RareGoalsVerge · 27/10/2025 18:03

And here's a compilation of all the comments so far that are the misogyny equivalent of "So when is it White History Month? And why don't White Lives Matter?"

Also lost count of the comments of "but what about Trans Women??" and "But How can you possibly define what a woman is? It is impossible!!!"

(In case anyone on this thread thinks the comments in this image are reasonable : all-female gatherings, facilities and opportunities are permitted because it is legitimate for women who are disadvantaged compared to men in many ways, to organise to combat those disadvantages and to create a springboard to enable women to participate on equal terms. All-male gatherings and opportunities would be intrinsically working to advantage the already-advantaged and priviledged and no that is not legitimate. The all-male clubs where deals are done and power is brokered are not in any way equivalent or legitimate. All-male facilities for changing, washing etc with privacy and dignity without a bunch of women giggling about the size of your cock is entirely legitimate though. For exactly the same reasons it is legitimate to have gatherings and opportunities that exclude white people, but it is not legitimate to have gatherings and opportunities that exclude non-white people. People have forgotten how to check their privilege. The disadvantages and challenges that are intrinsic to being female do not apply to transwomen (as they are male) although some of them do apply to transmen (as they are female). It is entirely reasonable and legal for groups like this to be emphatically Single Sex.)

Its interesting isn't it? I mean why ask women if there's a men only group - why would we know? It's none of our business. Ask the men at the university if they're setting one up, or offer to do it yourself. We aren't your servants or your mummy.

Imdunfer · 20/12/2025 08:28

They aren't trans exclusive. They have explicitly issued an invitation to women who live as men to join.

The only people who ever seem to matter in these discussions verbal assaults by trans supporters are men who want to believe that they are women.

I hope the University reported criminal damage of a door to the police but somehow I doubt it.

BingBongSong · 20/12/2025 07:59

A recent article from the Times. The SU's statements irritated me. I'm pretty sure the Society of Women will not be indulging in behaviour that is "abusive, offensive, violent or criminal, or publishing material that is grossly inaccurate­, defamatory, deliberately misleading, harmful or menacing." Hmm

https://www.thetimes.com/article/23972190-f438-414e-b408-fe19689e75a7?shareToken=391d80dfaed0001c1aa7f23c8b6ec407

Student union ‘no choice’ but to approve Cambridge Society of Women

The union said it supported ‘trans inclusivity’ but was obliged under the Equality Act to register the new society, which is only for those born female

https://www.thetimes.com/article/23972190-f438-414e-b408-fe19689e75a7?shareToken=391d80dfaed0001c1aa7f23c8b6ec407

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 28/11/2025 16:06

NotAtMyAge · 28/11/2025 12:05

Just seen on Twix that the society is now officially registered by the university, despite the lack of response from the Students Union. 👏👏

https://x.com/CUSocOfWomen/status/1994013677259796828

That’s really good news.

plantcomplex · 28/11/2025 12:18

HoppityBun · 28/11/2025 09:30

Only if you think that intelligence equates with decency, honesty and all those other heroic qualities.

You can be absolutely splendid at Latin, thermonuclear physics or the late mediaeval history of abandoned villages in Derbyshire and still an absolute dick.

Critical thinking?