New female single sex student society launched at Cambridge university

How brave! Not just launching but being so public. And sad to read what they have endured.

But honestly -

Jolyon Maugham KC
‪@goodlawproject.org‬
We are hearing some very troubling stories about trans exclusion, supported by the University, at Cambridge. We are making contact with affected societies and individuals and will fiercely protect the legal rights of trans students to live with respect and dignity.

Yet another example of how TRAs make it clear that for them it isn't about helping those with gender disphoria, it about making women accept that their rights have no status. And should be punished it they presume to say they do have rights.

Its one society out of how many at the University.

No doubt there is a "women's" society where TW are welcome.

https://bsky.app/profile/goodlawproject.org/post/3m43qgiw7j22d

‘However there is still a mysterious container of 'wimmin's stuff' that he hasn't been able to get close enough to identify - he has poor vision and 'I don't want to look like a weirdo'. ‘

😆😆🤣 that image made me laugh ❤️

I read that as “incontinent bellend.” Which is equally apt I guess, what with all the waste spewing…

God. He’s such an incoherent bellend.

https://bsky.app/profile/goodlawproject.org/post/3m43qgiw7j22d

Amazing news.

DH reports that the tampon dispenser has been removed from the mens toilets at Cambridge University Library so he has hopes that sense is breaking out.

However there is still a mysterious container of 'wimmin's stuff' that he hasn't been able to get close enough to identify - he has poor vision and 'I don't want to look like a weirdo'. He nearly figured out what it was last week but then another bloke came in so his attempt was abandoned.

Small steps in the right direction. Congratulations to these women for taking a stand.

What is fox botherer doing?

Love and solidarity to these brave women.

When I was a student, many years ago, we fought for equal pay, equal education and job opportunities, an end to sex discrimination, free childcare, abolition of the legal definition of women as dependent on men, free abortion on demand, effective action to stop violence against women.

Hard to believe, now, that it was legal back then for employers to refuse a female job applicant if they wanted a man, and to pay women less for the same work, and to sack women because they were pregnant, and for bar staff to turn away a lone female customer in case she was a prostitute (yes it happened to me!) and for men to rape their wives ....

We won some of those battles, and made big gains in others. Some we're still fighting.

But I bet none of us ever thought we'd be fighting, now, for the right to keep men out of women's changing rooms, the right to say a person with a penis is a man, the right for sports women to compete against other women. Let alone that teachers would encourage children to believe they were born in the wrong body, or that 'woman' and 'mother' would become dirty words in maternity units. Least of all that our opponents would be government departments, health authorities and the education sector.

More power to the Cambridge women, and the many others I hope will join them.

It sounds like a cool user name.

That the group thought that was in anyway a mature and professional response is rather telling.

It sounds like a cool user name.

That the group thought that was in anyway a mature and professional response is rather telling.

That’s awesome 👏 well done Loathsome Bigot HQ

I also just read that Cambridge have started to apply pressure to their sports teams to ensure they follow the latest UK sporting organisational policies.

here is Cambridge Rowing:

https://x.com/WomensRightsNet/status/1982758253697073587

BREAKING: Word reaches us that Cambridge_Uni has ordered its sports clubs to comply with national sports governing body rules that protect the female category.

In September, we highlighted the grossly unfair rules that allowed male rowers to compete in university college boat crews – in breach of the Equality Act 2010. In one egregious example, a town boat club affiliated to BritishRowing
allowed student clubs to include males in their female boats – against British Rowing rules.

We understand that sports clubs were told in no uncertain terms that if they continued to flout the law the university could dissolve the club and would not stand by any officers of clubs that might be on the receiving end of legal action. Last week, at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Cambridge University College Boat Clubs there was a vote on whether to comply with the law.

According to one report: ‘They were informed by the University that there was a credible threat that they would be sued by well-funded pressure groups if they didn’t acquiesce to BR guidelines, and the university made clear they would not protect them legally.’

The vote to comply with the law and British Rowing rules was passed. Cue much outrage in the boat clubs along the Cam.

‘Anger is very much justified here,’ says one post on the Rowbridge Reborn FB group. ‘But I think the anger should be directed at the loathsome bigots – who, over the summer, began to dox transgender athletes at Cambridge with their photos and full details on their “women’s rights” forums.’

Here at Loathsome Bigot HQ we’d like to remind all sports clubs that flouting the law does have consequences. Female student rowers have lost on places in university college crews, and even places in the Boat Race squad, for over a decade. The grown-ups have finally stepped in. The law is there to protect women and girls. And that is why we do what we do.

Over at The Other Place, Uniofoxford college boat clubs still have rules written in 2019 that allow males to self-identify into women’s boats. Perhaps it’s time for Oxford University to follow Cambridge and lay down the law?

I also just read that Cambridge have started to apply pressure to their sports teams to ensure they follow the latest UK sporting organisational policies.

here is Cambridge Rowing:

https://x.com/WomensRightsNet/status/1982758253697073587

BREAKING: Word reaches us that Cambridge_Uni has ordered its sports clubs to comply with national sports governing body rules that protect the female category.

In September, we highlighted the grossly unfair rules that allowed male rowers to compete in university college boat crews – in breach of the Equality Act 2010. In one egregious example, a town boat club affiliated to BritishRowing
allowed student clubs to include males in their female boats – against British Rowing rules.

We understand that sports clubs were told in no uncertain terms that if they continued to flout the law the university could dissolve the club and would not stand by any officers of clubs that might be on the receiving end of legal action. Last week, at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Cambridge University College Boat Clubs there was a vote on whether to comply with the law.

According to one report: ‘They were informed by the University that there was a credible threat that they would be sued by well-funded pressure groups if they didn’t acquiesce to BR guidelines, and the university made clear they would not protect them legally.’

The vote to comply with the law and British Rowing rules was passed. Cue much outrage in the boat clubs along the Cam.

‘Anger is very much justified here,’ says one post on the Rowbridge Reborn FB group. ‘But I think the anger should be directed at the loathsome bigots – who, over the summer, began to dox transgender athletes at Cambridge with their photos and full details on their “women’s rights” forums.’

Here at Loathsome Bigot HQ we’d like to remind all sports clubs that flouting the law does have consequences. Female student rowers have lost on places in university college crews, and even places in the Boat Race squad, for over a decade. The grown-ups have finally stepped in. The law is there to protect women and girls. And that is why we do what we do.

Over at The Other Place, Uniofoxford college boat clubs still have rules written in 2019 that allow males to self-identify into women’s boats. Perhaps it’s time for Oxford University to follow Cambridge and lay down the law?

"“The language of TERF ideology is ever changing, always with the aim of sounding reasonable. If your approach to spotting and fighting TERFs is purely based on words and optics, then you are vulnerable to being taken onboard by a new dogwhistle or talking point. It’s not enough to disavow TERFs in words alone and say Trans Rights are Human Rights or Trans Women are Women. The only way to prevent yourself falling prey to TERF talking points is to develop a critical understanding of concepts like sex and gender and the systems of power and oppression that underly them. TERF ideology incorrectly analyses and obscures these relations, and the best defense is to have a better explanation… Trans liberation is a feminist fight and transfeminism is feminism we should all be doing. More than inclusion we should be aiming for liberation.”

This...is...downright...Orwellian.