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Sex Matters - Hampstead Heath Ponds -

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SexRealismBeliefs · 15/12/2025 18:42

Sex Matters, a charity that campaigns for single-sex rights, will argue that the City of London Corporation is breaching equality law by allowing trans women to use Kenwood Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath.

Hearing this Wednesday.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/cceca8ca-4167-4b04-875a-40ddacfea782?shareToken=e9fe25a546d20835f1a5a66564cbf27b

Hampstead women’s pond sued over transgender access

Sex Matters claims that the City of London Corporation is defending a policy that defies the Supreme Court ruling on single-sex services

https://www.thetimes.com/article/cceca8ca-4167-4b04-875a-40ddacfea782?shareToken=e9fe25a546d20835f1a5a66564cbf27b

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Thelnebriati · 09/02/2026 20:25

Colour me surprised that trans activists don't understand the hoops you have to jump through to bring a discrimination case.

Greyskybluesky · 09/02/2026 19:48

Just saw a comment on that thread that someone should sue the Scouts for letting girls in, "single sex spaces means single sex spaces, not just female spaces, so why can't there be strictly bio male only spaces?"

🙄

HildegardP · 09/02/2026 17:58

Ereshkigalangcleg · 08/02/2026 11:35

Mr Blackadder, I have a cunning plan… https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/s/q17xLFY4qM

They've got all the polari, & none of the concepts.
Genuinely thick as mince.

YorkshirePuddingsGreatestFan · 08/02/2026 13:31

They don't get that it's biological men that are the problem due the behaviour of enough biological men to make women wary of them.

We don't have men only spaces to protect men from nefarious women.

We do have women only spaces to protect women from nefarious men.

And the reason they don't get this? Because they are biological men with no lived in experience of being women.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 08/02/2026 12:34

There’s an amusing thread at the moment where they’re all frothing about MN - I recommend it for comedy value but have to give a trigger warning that one of these charmers tells us to drop dead ShockShock

Ereshkigalangcleg · 08/02/2026 12:31

You wouldn’t get a Rizla paper in between them.

MyAmpleSheep · 08/02/2026 12:18

ArabellaScott · 08/02/2026 12:09

Bwahahaha!

This is amusing:

'SM's cause at its foundation is actually misandry, not transphobia.
They never talk about trans men, or men's spaces, and describe trans women as all fetishistic male predators without exception.
If they didn't hate men so bitterly there would be no basis for them to have a problem with trans women in the first place.'

Its just like listening to MRAs. Funny that.

I read trans Reddit and not incel boards, but it does sound very similar to incel conversation. Same mindset perhaps.

ArabellaScott · 08/02/2026 12:09

Ereshkigalangcleg · 08/02/2026 11:35

Mr Blackadder, I have a cunning plan… https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/s/q17xLFY4qM

Bwahahaha!

This is amusing:

'SM's cause at its foundation is actually misandry, not transphobia.
They never talk about trans men, or men's spaces, and describe trans women as all fetishistic male predators without exception.
If they didn't hate men so bitterly there would be no basis for them to have a problem with trans women in the first place.'

Its just like listening to MRAs. Funny that.

teawamutu · 08/02/2026 11:42

Dear god, they're ignorant.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 08/02/2026 11:35

Mr Blackadder, I have a cunning plan… https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/s/q17xLFY4qM

Thelnebriati · 07/02/2026 23:22

''“trans people in Britain are facing an existential threat'' claim the people who support erasing women's rights, culture and language.
Their statement proves there is no compromise possible between sex based rights and identity based rights. They won't accept anything less than full capitulation.

IwantToRetire · 07/02/2026 19:45

Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to protect inclusive spaces from gender-critical lawfare after a campaign group attempted to bring legal action to exclude trans women from Kenwood Ladies’ Pond in Hampstead Heath.

A coalition of more than 140 LGBT+ and feminist organisations has warned that “trans people in Britain are facing an existential threat, while businesses, employers and service providers are being dragged through the courts for defending their inclusive practices”.

In a letter coordinated by the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and sent to hundreds of MPs, seen by The Independent, parliamentarians have been urged to press the prime minister and the minister for women and equalities to take action to protect trans-inclusive spaces from the risk of expensive legal action after last year’s Supreme Court judgment.

Article continues at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trans-rights-supreme-court-starmer-hampstead-ladies-ponds-b2914769.html

Some of the comments are quite good. Surprised as this is the Independent a pro Trans paper.

Protect inclusive spaces from gender-critical legal battles, Starmer told

Exclusive: Keir Starmer and Bridget Phillipson have been urged by more than 140 feminist and LGBT+ organisations to protect trans-inclusive spaces

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trans-rights-supreme-court-starmer-hampstead-ladies-ponds-b2914769.html

DontStopMe · 02/02/2026 18:10

I'm sure I saw something recently about plans to open the mixed pond all year round. That would be ideal, so it probably won't happen.

LlynTegid · 02/02/2026 18:07

Greyskybluesky · 01/02/2026 13:21

I've said it before (on this very thread a few pages back!) and I'll say it again.

The pools are the perfect example of what we want and how things should be (in this world that has apparently 'moved on'...)

A women's pond for women only.
A men's pond for men only.
A mixed pond for everyone.

The pools already exist like this. No conversion work is needed, no extra space is needed, there are zero costs involved. It's all already there.

But it's still not acceptable to some people. WHY?

(Spoiler: I know why)

I know why too.

Though their case and hopefully any remaining support will be less if the mixed pond was to be open all year round.

Also remember the court case failed on ground of jurisdiction, so don't abandon any hope.

MarieDeGournay · 02/02/2026 10:32

A certain German-based supermarket, no not that one, the other one, has a new slogan [here in Ireland, anyway, hopefully chez vous too]
It's not complicated.
I'm hoping they do shopping bags with that slogan, and plenty of empty spaceGrin

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 02/02/2026 09:50

Melarus · 01/02/2026 11:56

I'm arguing for mixed ponds all round! Thus, no need for the cops.

Why don’t you want religious women to be able to access the ponds? Why must it be unfair to them just because men are having a tantrum?

BezMills · 02/02/2026 09:09

The Handmaid's Tale?

Datun · 02/02/2026 07:50

It's concerning that some people think men who threaten women or kick off should not only have their demands immediately met, but that any recourse to security shouldn't be happening either.

Apart from anything else, where do they think blind compliance like that would end?

FallenSloppyDead2 · 01/02/2026 17:29

Hampstead Heath has byelaws and a Constabulary to enforce them. I'm sure that dealing with the occasional man attempting to access the women's pond won't be beyond their abilities.

www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/hampstead-heath/hampstead-heath-byelaws

AnSolas · 01/02/2026 17:13

Melarus · 01/02/2026 11:56

I'm arguing for mixed ponds all round! Thus, no need for the cops.

Or magic solution:

Men no matter what they want to call themselves take ownership of their (moral) duty to be law abiding members of the society they live in and follow the laws about staying out of womens single sex spaces.

Nobody is saying that people should be allowed do 100mph passed schools just because someone decided that was a reasoned choice and there was no police around to stop it happening.

Datun · 01/02/2026 17:03

borntobequiet · 01/02/2026 17:01

Funny how it really wasn’t hard to enforce in all the decades before men suddenly started saying they were really women and the powers that be lost their collective minds and believed such nonsense.

Totally.

Any man attempting to enter a female toilet would have the weight of public opinion grabbing him by the scruff of the neck.

I have no doubt that we will be seeing that again, although it's taking longer than anyone thought

borntobequiet · 01/02/2026 17:01

Funny how it really wasn’t hard to enforce in all the decades before men suddenly started saying they were really women and the powers that be lost their collective minds and believed such nonsense.

AnSolas · 01/02/2026 16:57

Melarus · 01/02/2026 11:12

I mean, who knows. It would be great if it didn't. But there has been such a huge amount of bad feeling over this - you only have to look at Reddit to see many posts just as vehement and emotional as on here, only from the opposite angle. And the pond issue has been co-opted into the whole wider "culture wars", which seem to prompt extremist views and entrenched antithetical positions. I hate it, but here we are.

Its always sold as some thing which is hard to enforce yet the current legislation give the offender a clear choice and ownership of the choice.

Police report and a charge of sex offending with a 100% private prosecutions policy by the Board.

Clear notices of the facts.

Eg. That any male in the female pond area (or female in the male pond area) will cause alarm and distress etc ... and if found will have the police called and will be charged with sex offending.

Add a map to the mixed sex pond so the user has access to a lawful alternative.

Then the police sort out ID and the Board action if there is an arrest.

Simple solution.

No big fuss needed.

Non-sex Offenders will opt to use the risk free mixed sex areas.

Sex Offenders get to risk a nice criminal record.

Keeptoiletssafe · 01/02/2026 15:57

Imdunfer · 01/02/2026 14:34

"The pond issue" has been co-opted because it's such a perfect example of what the issues are.

From way back in time there was a men's pond, a women's pond and a mixed pond because there is a perfect set up of 3 ponds.

Then along came some trans rights activists insisting that obviously male bodied people should be able to use the women's ponds.

I've no doubt that at that time some discreet trans people were dipping in the women's pond upsetting no-one.

Then along came the activists who wanted to scream and shout about their rights and force gender realists to validate their "femininity" and metaphorically and physically wave their dicks around and they ruined it for everyone.

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The next stage, which I have evidence of in recent court cases in non domestic toilet provision, is of men who aren’t transwomen, saying they are transwomen as their excuse for being in women’s provision, which they use for voyeurism or sexual abuse.

They have been charged with a male name and claim they are a women just for the short time they are in the toilet room when they get caught. One man did change the pitch of his voice when trying to evade police.

Brings a new meaning to how can you tell the difference.

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