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Female nurses have to get changed with a male. They are told to go to another room. The man keeps the female changing room to himself. Wtaf is going on?

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TealTraybake · 24/09/2024 17:22

Female nurses ‘forced out of changing rooms’ after complaining about trans colleague

NHS whistleblowers dubbed ‘Darlington Five’ say they feel ‘humiliated and dehumanised’

Read in The Telegraph: https://apple.news/AC7RGaXTPTYe2J4CAixEvDw

Female nurses ‘forced out of changing rooms’ after complaining about trans colleague — The Telegraph

NHS whistleblowers dubbed ‘Darlington Five’ say they feel ‘humiliated and dehumanised’

https://apple.news/AC7RGaXTPTYe2J4CAixEvDw

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Fluufer · 25/09/2024 12:19

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:18

Aha, so third spaces are ok for trans women. But not ok for women like you? Why? What’s your issue with using a “third space”? Are you worried it might be stigmatising and outing perhaps? That it might make you feel ostracised and a target for discriminatory treatment?

What if a trans woman decides they are gc? What with them being "real women" and all?

Helleofabore · 25/09/2024 12:19

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:09

What does that have to do with anything?

because the issue was about the risks to trans people’s safety and dignity if they are required to out themselves as trans.
you seem to think this is impossible somehow? I don’t quite get it.

How about if these male people simply acknowledged that they are not female and respected the needs of female people and arranged with their manager to have a space that no one else needs to be aware of?

What ever happened to people respecting that they are not female and that changing rooms were never based on a person's gender, only ever sex, which does not change?

CrochetForLife · 25/09/2024 12:20

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:10

but what if a trans person is outer? So what? What are the actual consequences of that happening?

wow. I think you should go talk to some trans people like that.

We have. They've said transwomen are safe in the males.

Happy To Help.

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:20

EasternStandard · 25/09/2024 12:18

So you could use the mixed sex facilities and the women and girls their own single sex ones

Sounds good. Let's do it

No I would like to use the women and girls facilities that are inclusive of trans women and girls.

Notaflippinclue · 25/09/2024 12:20

Trans don't need to be outed - it is obvious - they just don't realise we already know

MelodyMalone · 25/09/2024 12:20

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:16

I’m a woman. I’m not gender critical, so it wouldn’t be for me.

Good, you can use the inclusive third space.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 25/09/2024 12:20

Aha, so third spaces are ok for trans women.

If that's a thing they want. The majority of women, according to polls, do not support them using women's spaces, so third spaces are a reasonable compromise if it's actually about safety and dignity, as claimed.

Fluufer · 25/09/2024 12:20

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:20

No I would like to use the women and girls facilities that are inclusive of trans women and girls.

Otherwise known as unisex.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 25/09/2024 12:21

No I would like to use the women and girls facilities that are inclusive of trans women and girls.

Those people are male so those facilities are mixed sex, not in any sense exclusive to women and girls.

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:21

CrochetForLife · 25/09/2024 12:20

We have. They've said transwomen are safe in the males.

Happy To Help.

ah ok. Trans women think they are safe in men’s facilities, so really there’s no need at all for this debate since there aren’t any trans women and girls desperately asking to use women’s facilities. 👍🏻

Fluufer · 25/09/2024 12:22

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:21

ah ok. Trans women think they are safe in men’s facilities, so really there’s no need at all for this debate since there aren’t any trans women and girls desperately asking to use women’s facilities. 👍🏻

They aren't asking, are they?

EasternStandard · 25/09/2024 12:22

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:20

No I would like to use the women and girls facilities that are inclusive of trans women and girls.

You offered another space as separate

You can call it what you wish but under your proposal there is a single sex provision and I and other women will take that happily.

CrochetForLife · 25/09/2024 12:22

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:18

Aha, so third spaces are ok for trans women. But not ok for women like you? Why? What’s your issue with using a “third space”? Are you worried it might be stigmatising and outing perhaps? That it might make you feel ostracised and a target for discriminatory treatment?

Why would females need a 'third space' when they have the female space already?

If you have a cock and balls you have NO PLACE in with vulnerable women and girls. You use the males, or the third space, which is gender-affirming as it is specifically for trans safety.

Zahariel · 25/09/2024 12:22

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:21

ah ok. Trans women think they are safe in men’s facilities, so really there’s no need at all for this debate since there aren’t any trans women and girls desperately asking to use women’s facilities. 👍🏻

men, the word you are looking for is men - men desperately asking to use women’s facilities

BTW

What is a trans woman?

ChungKing · 25/09/2024 12:23

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:21

ah ok. Trans women think they are safe in men’s facilities, so really there’s no need at all for this debate since there aren’t any trans women and girls desperately asking to use women’s facilities. 👍🏻

But the reasons they desperately want to use women's spaces are often for reasons of validation are they not? Some of them like to film themselves wanking in the women's and wouldn't get the same thrill in the gents. Some of them like to record the noises women make when peeing and laugh about it online. But yes, safety is the only thing driving this particular demand.

TheKeatingFive · 25/09/2024 12:23

I can't imagine anyone having an issue with unisex spaces so long as there are women only ones for those who want themS

FlirtsWithRhinos · 25/09/2024 12:23

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:03

to be clear, you do recognise trans people exist right?

I recognise that people who believe they are somehow "really" mentally the opposite sex in an unmeasurable internal non-physical way called "gender" exist in the same way that I recognise people who believe in god(s), or fairies, or malevolent alien overlords exist.

I do not believe people exist who objectively are the opposite sex in a non-physical way, not least because no one has ever been able to explain what that non-physical yet objective real thing is, let alone why a non-physical undetectable thing experienced only by the male sex justifies access to the single sex provisions that only exist in the first place to counteract the genuine and qualifiable consequences women face because of their physical female sex.

FanFckingTastic · 25/09/2024 12:23

Notaflippinclue · 25/09/2024 12:20

Trans don't need to be outed - it is obvious - they just don't realise we already know

This!

There's no need for sensitivities around being 'outed' It's normally very clear that a male is a male, regardless of the clothes or make up he chooses to wear or the pronouns that he forces others to use.

Leniriefenstahl · 25/09/2024 12:23

TheKeatingFive · 25/09/2024 11:55

And frankly only a complete pervert would want to make women feel uncomfortable by forcing them to get undressed in the presence of a male stranger.

This is the bottom line and ultimately we all know this.

It is more than possible to help men with dysphoria feel more comfortable without impacting women's spaces. We all know this too.
So the question is, why are people advocating for the perverts to get what they want? At the expense of women. How do you justify that?

So third spaces are the way forward to help men (or women) with dysphoria to feel more comfortable and safe ?
Not sure that anyone is actually advocating that perverts get their own way. How do you identify the pervs btw ?

CrochetForLife · 25/09/2024 12:23

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:21

ah ok. Trans women think they are safe in men’s facilities, so really there’s no need at all for this debate since there aren’t any trans women and girls desperately asking to use women’s facilities. 👍🏻

The ones who are wanting to use female spaces are sexual predators.

Hence, why actual transwomen are safe with males, as the male sex with male genitals.

Only a sexual predator would want to wave his erection in front of women and girls. Ergo, they are not transwomen. Just sexual predators.

Naunet · 25/09/2024 12:23

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 09:26

Why? You already have a definition right? It’s “men claiming to be women”. Or have I misunderstood?

I’m asking you to define transwoman, seeing you’re the one disagreeing. Can you do that?

Totallymessed · 25/09/2024 12:24

At the end of the day, trans women are not women and as long as they stay out of the women's changing room I don't really care. @PiggleToes may be happy to have zero boundaries, but her unfortunate lack of self respect doesn't outweigh the needs of others. @PiggleToes , feel free to use the men's so everyone knows your not a horrible terf, no-one cares.

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:24

Fluufer · 25/09/2024 12:19

What if a trans woman decides they are gc? What with them being "real women" and all?

We could simply have a requirement that these facilities are just for cis gender criticals.

Rosscameasdoody · 25/09/2024 12:24

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:20

No I would like to use the women and girls facilities that are inclusive of trans women and girls.

So unisex then. By definition inclusive of both sexes, no matter how they identify ?

Zahariel · 25/09/2024 12:24

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 12:24

We could simply have a requirement that these facilities are just for cis gender criticals.

There is no such thing as "cis gender" you know it I know it we all know it

BTW

what is a trans woman?

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