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Baroness Falkner: Trans activists threatened me and my family

62 replies

IwantToRetire · 12/04/2026 22:05

The former EHRC chairman on facing online abuse, her recovery from cancer and why society must not be afraid of calling out wrongdoing

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/12/baroness-falkner-trans-activists-threatened-me-my-family/

and https://t.co/OLDbQW4ipO

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/12/baroness-falkner-trans-activists-threatened-me-my-family

OP posts:
Wearenotborg · 26/04/2026 22:11

SlackJawedDisbeliefXY · 26/04/2026 22:10

I got as far as

My granddaughter has been accused of being a man multiple times. In fact, I saw when she and her best friend went to the ladies' together, only my daughter was told to go to the men's!

This seems like a fairly non-traditional family tree - or have I misunderstood?

(AskingQuestionsAllTheTime - snap, just read your comment)

Edited

It does explain a lot. Maybe that poster is a citizen of Royston Vasey 🤣🤣🤣🤣

SlackJawedDisbeliefXY · 26/04/2026 22:10

Datun · 26/04/2026 12:14

Oh mate, give it a bloody rest.

Out of a couple, in your head, the woman looks like a bloke because of short hair, but the man gets flirted with because everyone thinks he's a woman. 😆

And then! A woman gets dragged out by her hair holding a bloodied tampon - hahaha!!

Honestly, you clearly don't know a single woman.

I got as far as

My granddaughter has been accused of being a man multiple times. In fact, I saw when she and her best friend went to the ladies' together, only my daughter was told to go to the men's!

This seems like a fairly non-traditional family tree - or have I misunderstood?

(AskingQuestionsAllTheTime - snap, just read your comment)

Datun · 26/04/2026 21:17

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 26/04/2026 20:25

ain't it though.

And whatsitsname needs to decide whether it is daughter or granddaughter that is being picked on for having short hair.

lol. Good spot.

Imnobody4 · 26/04/2026 21:09

Baroness Falkner is one of the most impressive public servants of this decade if not century. I can't think of anyone else who has shown such courage and integrity along with clear rational analysis.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 26/04/2026 20:25

LiveLuvLaugh · 26/04/2026 20:04

What a load of cod.

ain't it though.

And whatsitsname needs to decide whether it is daughter or granddaughter that is being picked on for having short hair.

LiveLuvLaugh · 26/04/2026 20:04

GrannyAurora · 26/04/2026 11:26

My granddaughter has been accused of being a man multiple times. In fact, I saw when she and her best friend went to the ladies' together, only my daughter was told to go to the men's! She may have short hair, so what! She told me her best friend is trans. The person policing the toilet was a man! In fact, there was something unsettling about how he was ogling my granddaughter's friend.

And now I hear from this forum that the friend should go to the men's room?

I never had any problems with trans women in toilets. In fact, I wouldn't have even known, but my granddaughter told me as she knows some from the Uni. I'm not afraid of trans women, but I am afraid of the blokes that police ladies' rooms. I've seen one burst in to accuse someone random that she was a man and dragged her out of the cubicle. By her hair! She had a tampon in her hand and was on period, but the bloke didn't notice the blood.

Luckily my daughter knows self defence. Her best friend who is trans, on the other hand, never seems to get questioned.

Now tell me how mine and my granddaughter's rights are protected because they police toilets in my local pub and tell us that we should fear trans women! I'm too scared to go there on my own, never was before this nonsense started.

What a load of cod.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 26/04/2026 19:57

Sorry, what? "the rights of some minority groups conflict with each other, whether that be the rights of trans women versus biological women"

Since when were women a minority group? More than half the population of this country are female.

IwantToRetire · 26/04/2026 19:48

CompleteGinasaur · 26/04/2026 13:16

I was just wondering what the hell any of this nonsense had to do with Baroness Falkner being threatened by trans activists..?

I agree. I was going to say it is the usual hijacking of a thread by someone with an obsessive view point that they want to endlessly repeat, but dont believe it enough to start a thread about is so colonise others.

But then on the other hand it could be to stop anyone talking about the actual real life experience of Baroness Falkner, who have to fight her own staff to get women's sex based rights back on the EHRC agenda, mass the public humiliation (well it would have been for some but she rose above it) of being suspended whilst investigated, shat on by the WEC, and probably much more.

And fighting cancer at the same time.

Out of respect for her, hope posts will reflect her work, and how to continue it.

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KnottyAuty · 26/04/2026 19:18

Datun · 26/04/2026 16:53

He's not even very good at it. He's only covered toilets and menstruation.

To make it really tick all the boxes, she needs a bloodied tampon in one hand, a breast pump in the other and a pregnancy test clenched between her teeth whilst unscrewing her bottle of HRT tablets with her butt cheeks.

LOL!

mrshoho · 26/04/2026 19:04

Immensely grateful to Baroness Faulkner for all her work as chair of the EHRC. She had what seemed like at times an impossible task. When all around were hanging on the word of Stonewall and creating nonsense diversity policies she steered away from it. I can only imagine the abuse she and it seems also her family endured. Takes a brave woman. There are so many brave women to be thankful for. 💐

Datun · 26/04/2026 16:53

He's not even very good at it. He's only covered toilets and menstruation.

To make it really tick all the boxes, she needs a bloodied tampon in one hand, a breast pump in the other and a pregnancy test clenched between her teeth whilst unscrewing her bottle of HRT tablets with her butt cheeks.

OpheliaWitchoftheWoods · 26/04/2026 15:40

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Igneococcus · 26/04/2026 14:56

Wearenotborg · 26/04/2026 14:52

And how did the man manage to break in the locked cubicle and drag the woman out and no one noticed.

I think we need an in situ re-enactment of this story.

Wearenotborg · 26/04/2026 14:52

Igneococcus · 26/04/2026 14:51

Geez, the TRAs don't even try to make their stories plausible anymore?
How do you get a good enough grip on short hair to drag them out of a cubicle by it?

Edited

And how did the man manage to break in the locked cubicle and drag the woman out and no one noticed.

Igneococcus · 26/04/2026 14:51

Geez, the TRAs don't even try to make their stories plausible anymore?
How do you get a good enough grip on short hair to drag them out of a cubicle by it?

OpheliaWitchoftheWoods · 26/04/2026 14:38

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Helleofabore · 26/04/2026 14:29

I am glad that the Baroness has continued to speak up about the issues and that she will continue to keep the pressure on to get that guidance through.

Helleofabore · 26/04/2026 14:28

'In fact, I wouldn't have even known, but my granddaughter told me as she knows some from the Uni. I'm not afraid of trans women, but I am afraid of the blokes that police ladies' rooms. I've seen one burst in to accuse someone random that she was a man and dragged her out of the cubicle. By her hair! She had a tampon in her hand and was on period, but the bloke didn't notice the blood.'

Blimey. How traumatising. I hope you and that person dragged out by their hair got mental health support. And I hope that the person referred the incident to the police as that would be an offense surely?

CompleteGinasaur · 26/04/2026 13:16

I was just wondering what the hell any of this nonsense had to do with Baroness Falkner being threatened by trans activists..?

Wearenotborg · 26/04/2026 13:14

Tallisker · 26/04/2026 13:09

No, please don’t.

I second this. There is not enough antibac in the world for that posters keyboard, and the wrist brace is straining…

Tallisker · 26/04/2026 13:09

No, please don’t.

onlytherain · 26/04/2026 12:40

GrannyAurora · 26/04/2026 11:26

My granddaughter has been accused of being a man multiple times. In fact, I saw when she and her best friend went to the ladies' together, only my daughter was told to go to the men's! She may have short hair, so what! She told me her best friend is trans. The person policing the toilet was a man! In fact, there was something unsettling about how he was ogling my granddaughter's friend.

And now I hear from this forum that the friend should go to the men's room?

I never had any problems with trans women in toilets. In fact, I wouldn't have even known, but my granddaughter told me as she knows some from the Uni. I'm not afraid of trans women, but I am afraid of the blokes that police ladies' rooms. I've seen one burst in to accuse someone random that she was a man and dragged her out of the cubicle. By her hair! She had a tampon in her hand and was on period, but the bloke didn't notice the blood.

Luckily my daughter knows self defence. Her best friend who is trans, on the other hand, never seems to get questioned.

Now tell me how mine and my granddaughter's rights are protected because they police toilets in my local pub and tell us that we should fear trans women! I'm too scared to go there on my own, never was before this nonsense started.

I don't believe a single word (or is this a joke?).

Let's pick just one claim apart:
a man drags a woman out of a toilet by the hair while she is holding a bloodied tampon

How did this exactly happen? Women change tampons in locked cubicles and put them in bins in those cubicles usually while still sitting on said toilet in a state of undress.

  • How did the man manage to a pull the woman out of a cubicle before she had disposed of her tampon? Amazing timing...
  • Was she still undressed?
  • How did the man get into that cubicle? That must have taken some time...
  • How come nobody interfered since this was clearly assault?

Please elaborate.

Datun · 26/04/2026 12:15

Wearenotborg · 26/04/2026 11:54

is your granddaughters friend Albert Einstein? Did everybody clap?

Edited

I think everybody got rather, let's call it, over excited

EasternStandard · 26/04/2026 12:14

She’s amazing. The abuse women get for speaking up is so bad. You even see some ok with that on mn.

Datun · 26/04/2026 12:14

GrannyAurora · 26/04/2026 11:26

My granddaughter has been accused of being a man multiple times. In fact, I saw when she and her best friend went to the ladies' together, only my daughter was told to go to the men's! She may have short hair, so what! She told me her best friend is trans. The person policing the toilet was a man! In fact, there was something unsettling about how he was ogling my granddaughter's friend.

And now I hear from this forum that the friend should go to the men's room?

I never had any problems with trans women in toilets. In fact, I wouldn't have even known, but my granddaughter told me as she knows some from the Uni. I'm not afraid of trans women, but I am afraid of the blokes that police ladies' rooms. I've seen one burst in to accuse someone random that she was a man and dragged her out of the cubicle. By her hair! She had a tampon in her hand and was on period, but the bloke didn't notice the blood.

Luckily my daughter knows self defence. Her best friend who is trans, on the other hand, never seems to get questioned.

Now tell me how mine and my granddaughter's rights are protected because they police toilets in my local pub and tell us that we should fear trans women! I'm too scared to go there on my own, never was before this nonsense started.

Oh mate, give it a bloody rest.

Out of a couple, in your head, the woman looks like a bloke because of short hair, but the man gets flirted with because everyone thinks he's a woman. 😆

And then! A woman gets dragged out by her hair holding a bloodied tampon - hahaha!!

Honestly, you clearly don't know a single woman.