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ImConfusedDotComHelp · 20/04/2025 08:49

What's the significance?

How do they think this will help? Makes no sense to me at all.

https://reduxx.info/uk-trans-activists-stage-piss-filled-protest-in-front-of-londons-equality-and-human-rights-commission/

UK: Trans Activists Stage Piss-Filled Protest In Front of London's Equality And Human Rights Commission - Reduxx

Trans activists in London staged a urine-filled protest outside of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Monday in response to proposed alterations to the Equality Act which would strengthen women’s sex-based rights. Members of the organiz...

https://reduxx.info/uk-trans-activists-stage-piss-filled-protest-in-front-of-londons-equality-and-human-rights-commission/

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Iudncuewbccgrcb · 21/04/2025 13:22

Nextdoor55 · 20/04/2025 09:17

It's about being able to use a toilet. Because the current argument is about being able to use an appropriate toilet. Single toilets are the way forward. Or mixed which are really smelly but would solve the issue of where to pee.

Actually the supreme court decision was about equal gender representation on public boards.

The Scottish Government felt it was fair that transwomen could take some of the female 50% because trans women are women, so women took them to court and asked the courts to confirm that for legal purposes transwomen are still legally men.

Following the Supreme Court decision if a transwoman takes up a place on a public board they will now take up a male place not a female place.

It's not at all about toilets. But it helps sort the toilets issue out too.

EasternStandard · 21/04/2025 13:32

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 21/04/2025 12:36

Male and female don't intersect.

Do you think they do @JHound?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 21/04/2025 14:05

TheeNotoriousPIG · 21/04/2025 12:45

On the bright side, they won't get foxes around there. Apparently, foxes do not like the smell of testosterone in male urine, and avoid areas covered in it!

If only Jolyon had known…

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:45

FlakyCritic · 21/04/2025 13:12

Um..... FEMinism is about FEMales. There is no 'intersectionality' of male and female in women's struggle.

Well yes - I understand that’s how things work in White Feminism.

In reality it’s not that straightforward.

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:47

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 21/04/2025 12:36

Male and female don't intersect.

I never said they did. But there is more to identity than simply sex.

DeanElderberry · 21/04/2025 14:57

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:45

Well yes - I understand that’s how things work in White Feminism.

In reality it’s not that straightforward.

Are you saying you don't think black women are female?

Racist as well as stupid.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 21/04/2025 15:09

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:47

I never said they did. But there is more to identity than simply sex.

Almost as if they are two completely different things.

But being female can never form part of a male person's identity. How could it? They have never lived a single day of their lives as a female person.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 21/04/2025 15:12

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:45

Well yes - I understand that’s how things work in White Feminism.

In reality it’s not that straightforward.

Please stop bringing race into this. Black women have played a vital role in gender critical feminism.

It is those on the gender identity side of the argument who dismiss the needs of women from racial/religious minorities and continually suggest that a trans woman is a woman in the same way that a black woman is a woman.

frenchnoodle · 21/04/2025 15:16

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:45

Well yes - I understand that’s how things work in White Feminism.

In reality it’s not that straightforward.

Alison Bailey or his her life and history not worth mentioning in your racist deflection?

bringbacktheladiesloos · 21/04/2025 15:18

Iudncuewbccgrcb · 21/04/2025 13:22

Actually the supreme court decision was about equal gender representation on public boards.

The Scottish Government felt it was fair that transwomen could take some of the female 50% because trans women are women, so women took them to court and asked the courts to confirm that for legal purposes transwomen are still legally men.

Following the Supreme Court decision if a transwoman takes up a place on a public board they will now take up a male place not a female place.

It's not at all about toilets. But it helps sort the toilets issue out too.

The outcome really HAD to be that transwomen were ruled to be taking up male places on a public board.

Just imagine if the ruling had gone the other way. I bet it would only have been 2-3 years before every gov office and board in the country was purely made up of male chromosomes - all stating they were following the equality act.

It would have been insane.

My fear of the protesters is becoming mixed with a huge relief for the prevalence of common sense.

RaininSummer · 21/04/2025 15:21

Quite apt really as they love to piss all over women's rights.

EasternStandard · 21/04/2025 15:24

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:47

I never said they did. But there is more to identity than simply sex.

Are you suggesting identity makes a male a woman?

If not can you say what you mean in these posts.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 21/04/2025 15:33

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:45

Well yes - I understand that’s how things work in White Feminism.

In reality it’s not that straightforward.

Do elaborate, I’m sure it would be enlightening.

WhatterySquash · 21/04/2025 15:44

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:45

Well yes - I understand that’s how things work in White Feminism.

In reality it’s not that straightforward.

Oh purlease. Wheeling this white feminism wibble out when you don't have a logical leg to stand on, it's so tiresome.

Feminism is about females and unites all the females in the world. I may be white, but I am no more or less female than any other woman. We are all female and we all share the same sex-based oppression, that is why the male-female power and control structures are so similar around the world, in almost all cultures. That is WHY it's important for women to support each other snd stand together. Male oppression of females cuts across ethnicity, culture, class, wealth, age, and pretty much any other grouping you can think of.

Making up that because the category of female doesn't include males, that anyone is excluding particular groups of females from it is desperate. And the way you seem to think "intersectional" feminism is about not being white, shows clearly that you see white as the default, despite white being a minority globally. Maybe you don't understand that there are powerful feminist movements around the world and women have defied oppression and stereotyping since ancient times, and many of them were not white, as you would expect.

ViolasandViolets · 21/04/2025 15:45

I understand that’s how things work in White Feminism.

Next you be resorting to the racist TRA trope that somehow black women are only women like men are women.

DrPrunesqualer · 21/04/2025 15:45

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 21/04/2025 12:48

No, you're right, it's not a question of the majority. It's not like Strictly Come Dancing, or Brexit where every Tom, Dick and Harry over the age of 18 got to vote, no matter how strong or weak their grasp of the issues might have been.

This was five Supreme Court judges, the most senior lawyers in the country, deciding on a matter of law. The law in question was a groundbreaking piece of equality legislation introduced by the last Labour government. The same party which was convincingly returned to power less than a year ago.

The Equality Act was the first piece of legislation of its type in the world which gave trans people comprehensive rights to protection from discrimination on grounds of their gender reassignment status. At the same time, it gave other groups, including gay people, disabled people, religious minorities and female people the same rights and protections.

If, during the Gordon Brown years when this legislation was being debated and drafted, parliament had intended for trans people's rights to trump women's sex based rights, I'm pretty sure it would have actually written that in the legislation. And then perhaps Gordon Brown and JK Rowling would not have been such good friends.

Where we are today is that the Supreme Court has examined the law, heard the arguments on both sides, and concluded that parliament intended to draft legislation that recognises female people as a distinct category in law and affords us rights and protections on that basis. Rights and protections which are not undermined by the existence of members of the opposite sex who wish to live as though they are women. (Those people have their own protected category, they do not get to take ours and use it to their own advantage as well.)

If you think the law needs to change, there are only two possibilities.

  1. You have not understood the law.
  2. You actually think that parliament should repeal or amend the Equality Act to erase the female sex from legal existence, remove all our sex based rights, require us to share our communal showers, prison cells and rape crisis groups with any male person who has decided that they identify as one of us. You want them to legislate to remove our right to exist as a distinct category in law, as well as our right to say no to people in the other category, who will also no longer exist in law, even if in reality we all still know who is not allowed to say no to whom. Do you really think this is a progressive viewpoint?
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ViolasandViolets · 21/04/2025 15:47

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:47

I never said they did. But there is more to identity than simply sex.

So why are men complaining about single sex spaces being based on sex? These spaces have nothing to do with identity.

WhatterySquash · 21/04/2025 15:50

And of course there's more to identity than being female (or male). Just like there's more to identity than being black, disabled, under 18, short or tall etc etc but people are still allowed to care about these facts and that sometimes they are relevant. If you belong to any of these categories and someone tells you you're not allowed to have that category as a biological reality because people who don't share that category should be able to identify into it, you'll probably be annoyed and disagree. Doesn't mean you think it's the only thing that gives you your identity. Being female is no different.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 21/04/2025 19:31

WhatterySquash · 21/04/2025 15:44

Oh purlease. Wheeling this white feminism wibble out when you don't have a logical leg to stand on, it's so tiresome.

Feminism is about females and unites all the females in the world. I may be white, but I am no more or less female than any other woman. We are all female and we all share the same sex-based oppression, that is why the male-female power and control structures are so similar around the world, in almost all cultures. That is WHY it's important for women to support each other snd stand together. Male oppression of females cuts across ethnicity, culture, class, wealth, age, and pretty much any other grouping you can think of.

Making up that because the category of female doesn't include males, that anyone is excluding particular groups of females from it is desperate. And the way you seem to think "intersectional" feminism is about not being white, shows clearly that you see white as the default, despite white being a minority globally. Maybe you don't understand that there are powerful feminist movements around the world and women have defied oppression and stereotyping since ancient times, and many of them were not white, as you would expect.

👏 well said.

FlakyCritic · 22/04/2025 05:00

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:45

Well yes - I understand that’s how things work in White Feminism.

In reality it’s not that straightforward.

Why do you need to be racist? Feminism affects all females no matter which colour, race, creed or marital status. I'm non-white. It really, truly is that straightforward. Feminism doesn't ask your race or your age or religion. So your racism is disgraceful.

FlakyCritic · 22/04/2025 05:02

DeanElderberry · 21/04/2025 14:57

Are you saying you don't think black women are female?

Racist as well as stupid.

Gender Ideology defenders from experience tend to be virulently racist, as well as homophobic.

FlakyCritic · 22/04/2025 05:05

JHound · 21/04/2025 14:47

I never said they did. But there is more to identity than simply sex.

'identity' is completely and totally irrelevant. Women are oppressed based on our sex, not an 'identity' in our heads. Womens rights and single sex spaces are based on our sexed oppression. 'identity' doesn't even come into it!

JHound · 23/04/2025 00:59

FlakyCritic · 22/04/2025 05:05

'identity' is completely and totally irrelevant. Women are oppressed based on our sex, not an 'identity' in our heads. Womens rights and single sex spaces are based on our sexed oppression. 'identity' doesn't even come into it!

No actually women can be oppressed based on many aspects of the identity depending on the woman: sex, ethnicity, race, nationality, socio-economic status, religion, sexuality etc.

My point flew over your head but reducing it to “male = oppressor class” / “female oppressed class” is woefully simplistic and why my feminism is intersectional.

JHound · 23/04/2025 01:00

FlakyCritic · 22/04/2025 05:00

Why do you need to be racist? Feminism affects all females no matter which colour, race, creed or marital status. I'm non-white. It really, truly is that straightforward. Feminism doesn't ask your race or your age or religion. So your racism is disgraceful.

Nobody is being racist. If you don’t know what White Feminism is just say that.

JHound · 23/04/2025 01:04

DeanElderberry · 21/04/2025 14:57

Are you saying you don't think black women are female?

Racist as well as stupid.

I literally have no idea how on earth you have managed to draw that conclusion. If anything my post demonstrated the exact opposite.

Google is your friend if you don’t know what terms mean.