Full Council Chaos. Bristol City Council refusing to implement single sex services

I'm not denying that parties and groups who call themselves left-wing have, for their own bizarre non-reasons, adopted transactivism. I am arguing that transactivism itself is not left-wing. Being left-wing is not just "being nice", however much some people would like it to be.

can always trust @MrsOvertonsWindow to get the right stats!

A quick google of statistics suggest that this is not true:

"Violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Bristol is significantly higher than national averages, particularly concerning sexual violence and domestic abuse. Females in the city are 2.4 times more likely than males to be victims of domestic abuse. 1, 2, 3, 4]

Sexual Violence and Harassment

• Bristol Rate: 4.8 per 1,000 population.
• National Rate: 3.1 per 1,000 population across England.
• Context: Bristol has the joint-highest rate of sexual violence among English core cities. Additionally, 38% of women in Bristol report that sexual harassment is a major local issue. 1, 2] "

Police Response and Charging Times

• Avon and Somerset Police: The local force handling Bristol deals with roughly seven reported rapes a day on average.
• Wait Times: Rape cases take an average of 626 days to reach a charge, which is more than double the national average of 306 days. 1]

You can review the full breakdown of local data via the Bristol JSNA Domestic Abuse Report and the Bristol Sexual Violence and Harassment JSNA.

Edited to add cross posted with @StSpiridian

sorry don't know who haha is responding to. But thought mumsnetters might find this interesting: from 2024 though www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/december/policing-of-violence-against-women-and-girls.html
'Less than a quarter (24%) of the 55 studied police case files on domestic violence, rape, and serious sexual assault offences overall resulted in charges being brought against an offender, according to the findings which covered two police forces.'

and crime rates 2026 so far:
https://crimerate.co.uk/avon-somerset-police

Women are safe in Bristol, in fact it’s one of the safest places I’ve lived. Be angry about many things but don’t make untrue statements.

Children of Transitioners, also on x, have reposted their experience and report of trying to get access to female only abuse support services (unsuccessfully) in Bristol too...the link is here:

childrenoftransitioners.org/the-trans-lobby-has-destroyed-provision-for-female-abuse-victims-in-bristol-and-elsewhere-and-will-do-the-same-for-the-victims-bill/

One of the mumsnetters (I think) has posted about this meeting on x. Picture of a seamonster are you here? (Your username reminds me of one of my old user names!) .

As Jo Bartosch has responded and is asking for women at the meeting to message her on x.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt then. 🙄

Yep, can confirm. I'm a resident Bristolian.

Exactly. It may be appropriation and gaslighting but it’s definitely considered a left wing position and it’s necessary to identify it as that.

I do agree with this - that at its heart, its relentless focus on the whims and wants of the Individual (male) at the expense of the collective (females) is very firmly right wing territory.

However notwithstanding that, the left have picked it up and run with it. There, it seems to me, the focus is on suicidal empathy for who they perceive to be the oppressed. Their huge mistake is to characterise men as the oppressed and women as the oppressor, which is clearly abject nonsense to anybody who’s paying any attention to reality.

Insistence on respect for a subjective, intangible identity is also reminiscent of Prince Andrew insisting on being addressed as "Your Royal Highness".

And yet the ‘progressive left’ have rolled it into the Omnicause.

It’s firmly part of the ‘progressive grab bag’ of acceptable causes and opinions all left-wingers are encouraged to espouse as a job lot, without troubling themselves to apply any critical thinking on.

It’s misogyny given a left-wing veneer of championing the supposed under-dog.

Of course, there’s also a huge amount of misogyny on the right, too. But the push to erode women’s rights in Bristol comes firmly from the left.

No matter which side it comes from, it’s a pretty extremist position to attempt to roll back women’s rights, I would have thought. And it needs to be identified as such.

It's also all very consumerist- all those flags and lanyards and badges and blahajs, not to mention the drugs and surgery - and, for all its talk of "the community" very individualistic. It's not left wing. I'm getting really TIRED of explaining that.
ETA - not tired of explaining it here so much as in other places.

Did any of the women trying to ask questions film the proceedings ?
Are their videos available ?

If so, it is worth sharing them
(see also Kath of WRN cornering Julia Gillard)

If not, I can best suggest getting women to ask questions at every meeting of every committee of Bristol City Council

• whether they adhere to the Public Sector Equality Duty
• whether they protect their employees in accordance with the 1992 Workplace regs
• whether they plan to fully comply with the EA2010 and the EHRC guidance
• if not, which other laws do they consider optional

the questions will need to be relevant to the agenda items, but it can be done.

VAWG. The mistake many people make is to think this is about violence to our kind of women. It isn't. It's about violence to the women with dicks. If you weren't born with one, you are of no significance.

Agree.

I think the prioritisation of men's preferences over women's needs and the socially conservative imposition of gendered identities is fundamentally right wing.

I wonder if, when they were editing out the sound of the threatening rainbow mob, if they paused for just a moment to consider the implications of this. I wonder if, when someone suggested that and authorised it, when the time was taken to go through the recording and do the edit, whether the word 'censorship' was mentioned at all? Or 'propaganda'?

Why don't they want it to be heard? What does that tell them?

Good point. She was just interested in shoe-horning in her fawning TRA soundbite.

Appalling. Denying women access to democracy and fostering violence against them. Please tell me there’s a way to put the people responsible on trial. This is utterly unacceptable.

People need to focus on how this ideology from the get go has been enforced by thugs, bullies, the intolerant, and those unable to function in a democratic society. All enabled by the hard of thinking alongside a handful of predators.

They're a minority but a scary and intimidating minority. And yes, they need to be taken to court if they're unwilling to abide by the laws of the land and uphold the social contract.

They’ll have had a month by the September meeting. Tick tock. No more excuses.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5554647-ehrc-code-on-single-sex-spaces-comes-into-force-on-5th-august-2026?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

It was appalling, intimidating and the chair of the meeting had.no authority over the situation.
The councillor answering women's questions was playing up for the mob she had invited.
The data breach is very serious. Have they given mentally ill men Women's home addresses?