To think that releasing crickets at a gay rights conference, specifically to shut them down, should be considered a homophobic hate crime? Somehow these people are crowdfunding to do it AGAIN

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The optics of having to fumigate a hall after gay people used it to speak about their rights being eroded should not be lost on anyone.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13950839/Trans-activists-release-bags-insects-LGB-Alliance-conference.html

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/suspected-trans-rights-activists-disrupt-lgba-conference-with-live-crickets/ar-AA1s9JHH

This is CLERLY A HATE CRIME - yet it's being reported as trans rights activists, not anti gay hate mongers, I can't really understand why not

Can you link us to any examples of trans women being harmed by men whilst using men's toilets?

No one would come on MN and berate someone for only posting about SEN issues and how it affects them.

but that’s understandable.

Why would a woman come on mumsnet and only ever post on trans issues?

I don’t think trans women who are living as women use men’s toilets.

We've been told repeatedly on this thread that being forced to share facilities with men does not respect the safety or dignity of trans women. So how do you keep men out of facilities for trans women?

It's much easier to police single sex spaces than spaces organised by gender identity because we can see just by looking at you what sex you are, whereas nobody has got a fucking clue what your gender identity is because it's invisible.

I'd be interested to know what the rate of transwomen being assaulted in men's loos is. I have not seen, or even heard of, any evidence that suggests transwomen are at any greater risk of violence than any other males when using men's loos. If you have seen any evidence, I'd be grateful for a link to it.

Women’s hard fought for rights are important to a lot of women. It’s wild I know. If it’s ’trans issues’ then women would have a problem with trans men. They don’t. But if you had read the thread like you said you would surely know this… 🙄

How do you know if they are only posting on trans issues? (Not that there's any reason why they shouldn't, if they want to.) You do know you can change your username here, right?

First Google hit

www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/transgender-teens-restricted-bathroom-access-sexual-assault/

No there are not 'plenty where trans women have been assaulted by men of course'. There are none. None at all.

A quick Google tells you otherwise.

Because most websites will delete and ban you for saying trans women are not women?

Thanks for getting back to me.

Can you say what gender means in the first and the second questions? The exact wording doesn't matter, it's the use of the word "gender". It seems to be being used in different senses.
The options for qu 1 are identities. The use of "gender" in both questions could mean that they are the same thing.
Which raises the question:
How can gender identity - a subjective feeling about yourself - be assigned to a little newborn by someone else?

Perhaps gender in the first question does not mean gender identity, but sex.
Sex cannot be assigned at birth (but let's not argue about that here) - more importantly, it cannot change. Would you agree? Presumably that is why some people are excluded due to their answer to the second question.

You should be able to link us up then.

But why would someone change their username to only post on one specific topic?

That's an American article about American schools? How is that relevant here?

on mumsnet it’s completely the opposite!!!! Any user who’s been here a while knows that

Well, again, speculating here, but since women have been cancelled and fired for not adhering to gender ideology, perhaps they don't want their posting on trans issues to be linked with their posts on other topics which may be identifying?

there’s a lot more research in the US in general, it’s often used here as context is highly similar.

I dunno. But they can - and why shouldn't they? Lots of people change their username frequently so they can post freely while still not revealing too much about themselves.

No it isn't, their culture is completely different.

Right. So something to hide I guess.

We should be able to say that trans women are not women anywhere we damn well like. Because that's the truth.

Yes changing username frequently ad hoc and if posting something identifying sure

Massive derail

Sure. If it's specific bathroom links you want, one has already been supplied with some statistics. If you're talking generally about assaults on transwomen by men, here's a couple:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/19/welsh-teenager-jailed-for-attacking-trans-woman-and-sharing-terrorist-documents

https://www.creditoncourier.co.uk/news/courts/chulmleigh-men-jailed-for-brutal-attack-on-homeless-trans-woman-709615

You shouldn't have to hide the fact that you don't believe humans can change sex any more than you should have to hide the fact that you believe water is wet, but amazingly we live in strange times where you can in fact be fired for saying women don't have penises, and most of us can't afford to get fired.