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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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PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 13:33

WearyAuldWumman · 25/09/2024 13:29

I don't accept PMs from anyone.

No problem, in that case I won’t .

Ereshkigalangcleg · 25/09/2024 13:33

Actually it’s an opinion based on a desire to eliminate gender based oppression. It benefits everyone, especially women.

How does it eliminate "gender based oppression" when overwhelmingly most of this oppression is from males to females. "Trans women" are in the former category and women are the latter.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 25/09/2024 13:34

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 13:33

No problem, in that case I won’t .

Well I do, and would like to hear your definition.

EI12 · 25/09/2024 13:34

Everyone is scared to speak the truth, that is what going on. Did you not know this? In my dc school, the only person allowed to tell the truth, was a severely autistic boy with massive behavioural difficulties - he licked windows, ate with his hands, but oh, boy, did he tell the truth? We loved him for it - he would shout loudly, oy, this woman is not a woman, this woman is a man! He would shout as well - no, you are lying to us, you can't have two dads and two mums, this is not true! You are lying to us - he shouted at the teachers in sex ed. And our little children? They leant how to lie, how to keep quiet and pretend that the world, which has gone mad, is perfectly normal.

We are quiet cowards, despicable cowards not to call a spade a spade, a lie a lie, and you are asking what is going on?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 25/09/2024 13:36

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/5173472-rapists-will-be-banned-from-self-iding-as-women-in-scotland

"Trans women are women, except if they are rapists".

Welshmonster · 25/09/2024 13:36

Opentooffers · 24/09/2024 17:49

There's a simple solution, no changing room at all, wear uniform to work. It's what we do now. It's not seen as a requirement to provide at all for either sex.

@Opentooffers what about when a patient has vomited on you or other bodily fluids? Are you supposed to stay in the same uniform all day and then wear it home to wash?

Helleofabore · 25/09/2024 13:36

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 25/09/2024 13:25

I disagree. If I can see someone who is clearly male walking around half naked in the women's changing rooms with a towel round his hips, I am going to feel uncomfortable and angry. I obviously can't go and whip the towel away to see whether he still has a cock and balls and then report him to HR if he does (and no doubt be reported to HR myself if he doesn't), so I have to just silently stew about it.

Sorry but that's unacceptable.

Having your male genitals removed doesn't make you any less male.

Do women have a tendency to walk around with a towel around their hips and their breasts bare?

This was not really well thought out by this person.

Also, it is very very difficult for even a very skilled surgeon to make breast tissue sit matching female skeletal/chest cavity/breast proportions. It is things like the distance between the breasts, the position of the height where they sit on the chest etc.

But this things are dismissed in the need to convince others that male people lose their male body cues at any stage of transition after a particular age. And research is still coming through that even blocked puberty cannot change all, maybe even enough, cues when female people see male people in real life and interact with them.

CrochetForLife · 25/09/2024 13:36

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 13:26

participating in these threads really is like being in the play ground and standing up to the mean girls .

Edited

BWAHAHAHA Fleeing like a coward with your tail in between your legs is not "standing up to" anyone.

WearyAuldWumman · 25/09/2024 13:37

Just to add that someone posted a pic of a headline which wrongly suggested that Dolatowski raped a 10 yr old. It was an attempted rape. Horrendous, but the little girl got away by punching Dolatowski in the balls.

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/courts/819644/mum-of-supermarket-toilet-sex-assault-victim-warns-freed-attacker-could-strike-again/

ItsNotYou852 · 25/09/2024 13:37

Helleofabore · 25/09/2024 13:29

Do you think that female people cannot correctly sex a male person without seeing their genitals?

And that women who are traumatised, or even just not wanting, to be in a space designated as single sex cannot tell without seeing genitals?

Just being a male, with no further action needed, while being in a space designated as single sex for female people is 'making themselves a problem' to other women.

Okay, I can see that is not a possible compromise based on the responses here.
It just seems sad that those transwomen who are genuinely living as women and no threat to anybody get bundled in with the obvious perverts and offenders.
If the only possible answer is all non natal women are excluded from female only spaces we are going to be fighting about this for a long time!

Ereshkigalangcleg · 25/09/2024 13:37

Let's eliminate gender, and sex based oppression.

If we eliminate gender then we can be back where we started. People, around half of whom are male and half of whom are female. No silly regressive expectations about how they should dress or behave.

If we eliminate sex based oppression, then and only then we can have a discussion about whether we still need single sex spaces.

This.

Naunet · 25/09/2024 13:38

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 13:31

Actually it’s an opinion based on a desire to eliminate gender based oppression. It benefits everyone, especially women.

😂

Please do explain, how does it do that?

Fluufer · 25/09/2024 13:39

ItsNotYou852 · 25/09/2024 13:37

Okay, I can see that is not a possible compromise based on the responses here.
It just seems sad that those transwomen who are genuinely living as women and no threat to anybody get bundled in with the obvious perverts and offenders.
If the only possible answer is all non natal women are excluded from female only spaces we are going to be fighting about this for a long time!

How does a man "genuinely live as a woman"? What does that mean?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 25/09/2024 13:39

If the only possible answer is all non natal women

There is no such thing. "Trans women" are male. MTF transgender people. Women are female. I'll keep fighting until women's rights to safety, privacy and dignity are respected.

TheKeatingFive · 25/09/2024 13:39

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 13:31

Actually it’s an opinion based on a desire to eliminate gender based oppression. It benefits everyone, especially women.

But this is nonsense.

The oppression women face is sex based, not 'gender' based.

And you do know this

TheKeatingFive · 25/09/2024 13:40

It just seems sad that those transwomen who are genuinely living as women and no threat to anybody get bundled in with the obvious perverts and offenders.

If the only possible answer is all non natal women are excluded from female only spaces we are going to be fighting about this for a long time!

Well, how would you go about distinguishing them?

Totallymessed · 25/09/2024 13:40

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 13:26

participating in these threads really is like being in the play ground and standing up to the mean girls .

Edited

You started the thread demanding people answer your questions while stating that you refused to answer anyone else's. You've received (understandable) pushback from women who care about the safety of women and girls, and now, of course, you turn round and pretend you're a victim.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 25/09/2024 13:40

ItsNotYou852 · 25/09/2024 13:37

Okay, I can see that is not a possible compromise based on the responses here.
It just seems sad that those transwomen who are genuinely living as women and no threat to anybody get bundled in with the obvious perverts and offenders.
If the only possible answer is all non natal women are excluded from female only spaces we are going to be fighting about this for a long time!

We'll fight about it for as long as it takes. Until society accepts that women have the right to say no to men. Even poor vulnerable ones who really do believe they are living as women.

Why do they believe they are living as women? What does that even mean? Wearing dresses? Come on.

CrochetForLife · 25/09/2024 13:42

Totallymessed · 25/09/2024 13:40

You started the thread demanding people answer your questions while stating that you refused to answer anyone else's. You've received (understandable) pushback from women who care about the safety of women and girls, and now, of course, you turn round and pretend you're a victim.

Typical male gaslighting behaviour.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 25/09/2024 13:42

TheKeatingFive · 25/09/2024 13:39

But this is nonsense.

The oppression women face is sex based, not 'gender' based.

And you do know this

Gender isn't something women have, or the basis on which they are oppressed.

It is the means used to oppress them.

Zahariel · 25/09/2024 13:44

EI12 · 25/09/2024 13:34

Everyone is scared to speak the truth, that is what going on. Did you not know this? In my dc school, the only person allowed to tell the truth, was a severely autistic boy with massive behavioural difficulties - he licked windows, ate with his hands, but oh, boy, did he tell the truth? We loved him for it - he would shout loudly, oy, this woman is not a woman, this woman is a man! He would shout as well - no, you are lying to us, you can't have two dads and two mums, this is not true! You are lying to us - he shouted at the teachers in sex ed. And our little children? They leant how to lie, how to keep quiet and pretend that the world, which has gone mad, is perfectly normal.

We are quiet cowards, despicable cowards not to call a spade a spade, a lie a lie, and you are asking what is going on?

what a legend

Helleofabore · 25/09/2024 13:45

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 13:31

Actually it’s an opinion based on a desire to eliminate gender based oppression. It benefits everyone, especially women.

Then you seem to be repeating some else's erroneous theory on this.

Removing single sex spaces by allowing male people to access them, and removing the language that female people need to describe their own needs, and even censuring women for pointing out that a male person remains a male person - none of these eliminate gender based oppression. It does allow new oppression of female people to occur though.

And you are complicit.

You say this benefits everyone, especially women. How?

How? How does allowing male people to access female single sex spaces benefit ANY female person? It doesn't. It does benefit the male person though. You have centred that male person in this scenario.

Rather the opposite effect.

(and I use female people to highlight that this excludes those male people who demand that they are female)

Zahariel · 25/09/2024 13:46

PiggleToes · 25/09/2024 13:26

participating in these threads really is like being in the play ground and standing up to the mean girls .

Edited

YOU ARE LITERALLY THE MEAN GIRL FFS

TealTraybake · 25/09/2024 13:47

Totallymessed · 25/09/2024 13:40

You started the thread demanding people answer your questions while stating that you refused to answer anyone else's. You've received (understandable) pushback from women who care about the safety of women and girls, and now, of course, you turn round and pretend you're a victim.

Text book male pattern behaviour. DARVO. Totally unsurprised to see it play out in front of us..

Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It describes a manipulative tactic often used by men to avoid accepting responsibility for their actions and shift blame onto their victims.

Shocker.

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MissScarletInTheBallroom · 25/09/2024 13:49

@PiggleToeshasn't sent me a PM with her definition of trans woman, btw. Has anyone else received one?

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