“Heated Rivalry” author Rachel Reid on J. K. Rowling - “the bar is pretty high in how evil you have to be,” “ I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes”

That is your belief. But it's WRONG. Gender Critical feminism is overwhelmingly backed by left wing feminists globally. It's the T that is largely backed by the far right Mens Rights Movement, and their goal, as is yours, to reduce the rights of women and LGB people.

No, it's fact.

Yes, fully agree! And it doesn’t mean, for example, that white people with a tan can start self-defining as BAME because they might be mistaken for a member of an ethnic minority from a distance, at night, by someone short-sighted.

Oh my. There is a reason for that.

Yes, you can be discriminated against because you are the charateristic, or because someone assumes you are the characteristic. We can all be discriminated against probably all of the categories, except men are rarely discriminated against for pregnancy.

This is already covered by discrimination law.

Similarly you can suffer discrimination on the grounds of religion because somebody thinks you are a particular religion regardless of whether their assumption is correct.

It does not therefore follow that you are that religion.

There are lots of different type of men.

They are all men.

Sex realism is largely backed by US right wing christian conservative men. It is a globally-focused effort to reduce the rights of LGBT people and eventually return culture to align with its core biblical belief that women are subservient to men.

Signed:

Mr. Izzit Bollocks.

Most men never consider the impact of pregnancy, so not very female gendered there.

Sex discrimination is sex based.

The clue is in the name.

Yes, as with any other form of discrimination, discrimination by perception is also illegal.

Gender means assumptions of how a man or woman should behave, so sexist expectations. Gender non conforming women don't gain male privilege and avoid sexism.

Quite. I can well believe transwomen might get some of the same discrimination if people genuinely can’t tell that they’re not women. But that would - presumably - apply to very few transwomen, and depend entirely on “passing”?

I know is it the presumption of sex, or the presumption of gender?

Pregnancy massively influences interpersonal interaction in public transport, shops and the workplace. All sorts of people come up and start giving unsolicited advice like “you shouldn’t be drinking Coca Cola - think of the baby!” and either offering you a seat on the tube or studiously avoiding your eye in case they have to give you a seat. Colleagues make jokes about “baby brain”.

Menopause also influences these interactions, especially with unexpected flooding and public embarrassment and the need for a decent (single sex!) loo urgently. Also suddenly becoming somewhat invisible to men in public (this one is a mixed blessing). Oh and colleagues making the odd unnecessary joke when you insist on opening the office window.

Did you really think these things don’t influence women’s social interactions?!

That’s your belief

This is confusing me. You are saying that discrimination is on the basis of presumed sex? So transwomen are discriminated against because the person/group doing the discrimination can’t tell they’re not biologically woman (and if they can tell that, then they won’t subject them to the same discrimination?)?

I had thought you were saying discrimination was on the basis of gender, which could be divorced from sex. But seems I am wrong.

That does not change the fact that the risk of pregnancy means that rape is different for men and women.

Men raping men is not at all unheard of
I really don’t understand the link to transgender?

I've discussed this in previous threads. My rapists were brought to trial after several more attacks. Men were not targeted. Multiple sex realists on mumsnet need to turn this crime into a crime against men. Good f*&king luck with that.

I am sorry that you were raped, but, given that we are talking bluntly, that does not stop me from saying that the experience of rape is different for a man and a woman.

Sex descrimination is social. It is gender-based. It is class focused. Discrimination is not based on the knowledge of one person's gametes by another, it is focused at people grouped by the presumption of sex.

As already discussed, sex discrimination is generally unlawful, so nobody should be treating anyone differently because of their sex.

However, lack of provision of facilities for women who are menstruating/breastfeeding/pregnant - anything sex specific - could lead to a claim of unlawful sex discrimination.

You are correct. My inability to get pregnant was the one thing i was forced to continuously tell others about after my rape.

Oh how?

looks
like a man smells like a man and acts like a man

Yes, I'm aware. I thought my post made that clear.

Sadly though, the allowance of transwomen in so called fenland spaces make it easier for abusers to go undetected.

Men as a class are very unlike trans women as a class. Sex realist belief doesn't change this.