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Labour say transwomen should use the men’s toilet

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Kindersurprising · 22/04/2025 12:15

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trans-women-men-toilets-b8gt6l22c?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHlJe7BiT-kgvjfusJpz2eq_AUSGDRI9eAMe5VNA0iX6U2qOUk-U0wPhPI98-_aem_Vfuvll1ZYKrZUa-vjh4QSA#Echobox=1745317525

Squeak squeak burrow burrow. Is that a ferret reversing?

Use men’s or women’s toilets based on biological sex, minister says

Supreme Court ruling must be applied ‘right across the board’, Bridget Phillipson stresses as Sir Keir Starmer hails judgment as a ‘welcome step forward’

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trans-women-men-toilets-b8gt6l22c?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHlJe7BiT-kgvjfusJpz2eq_AUSGDRI9eAMe5VNA0iX6U2qOUk-U0wPhPI98-_aem_Vfuvll1ZYKrZUa-vjh4QSA#Echobox=1745317525

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BunfightBetty · 22/04/2025 16:06

TheKeatingFive · 22/04/2025 15:58

What are you saying here? Wanting women to have their own spaces makes you a Reform voter?

Is this for real?

I guess maybe it sounds like a bit of a 'gotcha' in your own head, if you're about 13?

FlakyCritic · 22/04/2025 16:06

MissDoubleU · 22/04/2025 14:30

I just want one person to tell me how they are going to police this, exactly? Because that’s where this is going. In fact, that’s where this IS. During the recent trans rights protest in Edinburgh they had security outside the train station toilets asking for ID.

There are plenty of trans men who would not be allowed into a women’s toilet without first proving they do indeed have a vulva. And do you really trust the police when arresting trans men not to physically examine these individuals against their will to determine what they have?

That was a LIE spread by that vile, and violent India lunatic, @MissDoubleU . It was debunked.

We'll police it like we always did, prior to 10-12 years ago, before this nonsense started. How do you think we did it for decades and decades, until the last 5 minutes?

CantStopMoving · 22/04/2025 16:06

Guinessandafire · 22/04/2025 15:56

Well, I've found all the Reform voting Daily Mail & Daily Express readers.

I know you say that like an insult but I’m struggling to see what is wrong with doing any of those things in a Democratic society.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 22/04/2025 16:06

Hoydenish · 22/04/2025 12:25

Kim this is a cracking series of typos. Escargot 🤣

(Presume you meant Was it really necessary to start another)

There are some cracking new usernames coming out of this topic...

WasItReallyEscargot

NotNecesnailery

WeaponisedClarity

(The last was a phrase seen today on twitter.)

safetychange · 22/04/2025 16:07

Indianajet · 22/04/2025 13:08

This makes me sad - do we really want transwomen to have to use men's toilets, and transmen to have to use women's toilets? This will put transwomen at risk - I hate the hysteria that has arisen over this issue.

Because the 2% Trans population must be kept safe at the expense of 51% of the population. Right ...

Naunet · 22/04/2025 16:07

PlanetJanette · 22/04/2025 16:04

How do you think someone should prove that they are entitled to use the women's bathroom?

How did transwomen prove they were trans and not 'regular' men?

TeenagersAngst · 22/04/2025 16:07

Ereshkigalangcleg · 22/04/2025 15:56

What would “certificated sex” mean if “biological” didn’t exclude men?

Words mean nothing if people disagree on their definition. They are just a collection of letters.

'Biological' is currently a contested word in some circles. So what does it mean to have a certificate of biological sex if not everyone agrees on the definition of biological?

CantStopMoving · 22/04/2025 16:08

Naunet · 22/04/2025 16:05

There's also the odd one now saying how they'll be 'stealing our husbands' in the mens toilets 🤣

I’m intrigued they can work that fast in the time it takes to wash their hands!.

Lentilweaver · 22/04/2025 16:09

FlakyCritic · 22/04/2025 16:06

That was a LIE spread by that vile, and violent India lunatic, @MissDoubleU . It was debunked.

We'll police it like we always did, prior to 10-12 years ago, before this nonsense started. How do you think we did it for decades and decades, until the last 5 minutes?

How are these things policed in other countries, India and Thailand for instance. None of the transwomen there enter women's spaces.

TheKeatingFive · 22/04/2025 16:09

If anyone thinks there will be any difficulty determining the their biological sex, it will be what's on their original birth certificate.

There may be some extremely rare cases of people with DSDs who may have had this revised, but I presume their are mechanisms to update their birth certificates if that's the case.

cardibach · 22/04/2025 16:10

PlanetJanette · 22/04/2025 16:04

How do you think someone should prove that they are entitled to use the women's bathroom?

I don’t. I think people should start following the law. I’m 60. Nobody ever had a problem knowing which toilet they should be in before TRAs started up - and yes, I know some trans women have always used female toilets. I’m not that interested in toilets though. I’m more interested in other single sex spaces like refuges, hospital wards and sports being kept single sex. Have you got a problem with that?

ThatCyanCat · 22/04/2025 16:11

TeenagersAngst · 22/04/2025 16:07

Words mean nothing if people disagree on their definition. They are just a collection of letters.

'Biological' is currently a contested word in some circles. So what does it mean to have a certificate of biological sex if not everyone agrees on the definition of biological?

It means the TRAs are still attempting to use Newspeak to force their lies, but if they didn't know who the women were then they wouldn't want to retain female spaces for men to use. And they wouldn't know which space they want the transwomen using.

If you don't know what a woman is, and you don't know what your biological sex is, campaign for third spaces so you don't have to suffer such debilitating confusion every time you try to work out which changing room is yours. And for the love of God don't try to have kids. I don't even want to know what acts you'd think up while you tried to figure out who's who.

TeenagersAngst · 22/04/2025 16:12

TriesNotToBeCynical · 22/04/2025 16:05

The SC went to some lengths to say that what they called biological women were women born as female.

But if not everyone agrees on the definitions of the words used, it will lead to more nonsense debate and confusion (for some).

Lentilweaver · 22/04/2025 16:12

I am also not that interested in toilets. They have dominated the discussion.
But I am very keen that women should not have to put up with men in refuges, prisons and hospitals, and that the NHS should recognise what a woman is.

Hairyesterdaygonetoday · 22/04/2025 16:12

Hotandbothered222 · 22/04/2025 13:11

The trouble is, this is the attitude of transwomen (see attached Twitter photo). They are prepared to physically fight to be allowed to stay in a female space. They are in fact, better women than actual women. I wouldn’t want to challenge one of these people in a toilet or anywhere else, for my own safety.

for anyone with a strong stomach, this transwoman, Meja is a prolific poster on Twitter, and is extremely aggressive in a way that we tend to associate with male behaviour, no matter what they say.

He’s had cis lesbians telling him he’s more of a woman than some women they know. Fancy that.

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 22/04/2025 16:13

Guinessandafire · 22/04/2025 15:56

Well, I've found all the Reform voting Daily Mail & Daily Express readers.

Were they on the Daily Mail and Express websites?

TeenagersAngst · 22/04/2025 16:14

ThatCyanCat · 22/04/2025 16:11

It means the TRAs are still attempting to use Newspeak to force their lies, but if they didn't know who the women were then they wouldn't want to retain female spaces for men to use. And they wouldn't know which space they want the transwomen using.

If you don't know what a woman is, and you don't know what your biological sex is, campaign for third spaces so you don't have to suffer such debilitating confusion every time you try to work out which changing room is yours. And for the love of God don't try to have kids. I don't even want to know what acts you'd think up while you tried to figure out who's who.

It's very clear they don't want third spaces. Because that would undermine their position that they are women. They're even biological women. Apparently.

ghostyslovesheets · 22/04/2025 16:14

Guinessandafire · 22/04/2025 15:56

Well, I've found all the Reform voting Daily Mail & Daily Express readers.

Ah yes you are so right this rightwinger has a history of oh

collecting food out side Safeway for the miners
actively campaigning against section 28
working for rape crisis for 10+ years
working to support AIDS and HIV charities
fundraising for Refuge
marching to reclaim the night, against the war in Iraq, against the poll tax
was at Greenham

totally a right wing bigot - honestly what a lame argument

Ereshkigalangcleg · 22/04/2025 16:15

Hairyesterdaygonetoday · 22/04/2025 16:12

He’s had cis lesbians telling him he’s more of a woman than some women they know. Fancy that.

Then they all clapped.

FlakyCritic · 22/04/2025 16:16

MissDoubleU · 22/04/2025 14:39

It isn’t even about masculinity. I have several fully fledged vagina and uterus having female friends who are 6 feet plus and they have all experienced hatred and unwanted questioning based on apparent “large hands” or some other apparent indication they must actually be trans women. Imagine just nipping to the loo and having security called because you have PCOS and more hair than apparently women are allowed to have.

Congratulations though, because to make some women feel safe now anyone that someone may feel might not be female enough doesn’t.

Maybe you should consider that the fault for that lies with people who enabled males to invade our spaces, leading women to naturally be on high alert. Instead of victim-shaming and blaming us for being on high alert.

If it no males entered our facilities, we would be more relaxed and not on high alert.

But that simply never dawned on you, did it? That it's the trans activists fault for creating this fear.

Annascaul · 22/04/2025 16:16

mummymeister · 22/04/2025 14:24

I consider myself a feminist. I also consider myself to be a reasonable person, tolerant of peoples lifestyles and beliefs. Yet, I am conflicted by this ruling and I suspect I am not alone. If a person who identifies as a female joins me in the toilet queue I have no problem at all. I wont know what their status is because they are in a cubicle, the same as me. However, for me the line is drawn in spaces like open swimming pool changing rooms. This really happened to me and I posted about it on MN. I was in an open plan/open showers swimming pool changing room. stripped off to go in the open shower and then in walked a person in a bikini who very obviously had a penis. This is what I object to. If this person did not have a penis I would not have cared. but they did and I did because I was naked, vulnerable and alone in the changing room. Other options were available for this person to shower and change in but they chose to share a room with me. I fully respect their right to dress and live as a woman. They should fully respect my right not to look at a penis when I am naked in a swimming pool changing room. The law needs to be more nuanced to protect everyones rights not say one right trumps another.

This person with the penis had zero right to be in women’s spaces at all.
Just like you had no right to go into the men’s.
How can you frame this as “one right trumping another”?
There’s no conflict at all from where I’m standing.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 22/04/2025 16:17

TeenagersAngst · 22/04/2025 16:07

Words mean nothing if people disagree on their definition. They are just a collection of letters.

'Biological' is currently a contested word in some circles. So what does it mean to have a certificate of biological sex if not everyone agrees on the definition of biological?

You don’t need to have a certificate of biological sex, that was the interpretation which was rejected, that “sex” in the EA did not mean biological sex only, but “certificated sex”.

LakieLady · 22/04/2025 16:17

2JFDIYOLO · 22/04/2025 15:43

1)All transwomen have two things in common:

They're men.

They're deluded.

  1. If 1/10 people are gay that must mean that 90% of transwomen are also straight, as in attracted to women.

  2. And the number of transwomen currently in prison for sexual offences, against women and children especially, shows that some transwomen are dangerous. The behaviour of some of them this week and before proves some of them are cause for concern.

All the #bekind performative flagwaving this week can't hide these facts.

Point 2 above appears to assume that the distribution of gay and straight people is equal among the entire population, regardless of how they identify.

I find this intriguing, and would be very interested to see your source for this info.

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 22/04/2025 16:18

inamarina · 22/04/2025 15:59

I can’t imagine any woman wants to ask a big burly fella if he is really a trans man?

But you assume a woman would be comfortable with a big burly fella in a skirt?

How have TM suddenly become these ‘big burly fellas’?! 😂 I’ve seen several posts mentioning ‘my friend who is a very tall, masculine, weight lifting, muscular, bearded, TM could NEVER be mistaken for a woman, how would you like THAT in your toilets?’

It really isn’t the gotcha they think it is. Their friends are imaginary 😂

Helleofabore · 22/04/2025 16:19

ghostyslovesheets · 22/04/2025 15:48

Also I’m amazed that suddenly transmen are the issue - it’s funny how they have been largely ignored (by the men) until now

is this the new stick to beat us with? Transmen are women it’s a non issue

also GC women have been shouted down again and again for apparently being obsessed with toilets- but now it’s the big issue

it’s not about toilets it’s about rape crisis centres, refuges, hospital wards, prisons, women only short lists and awards and sport - and it’s about bloody time

"also GC women have been shouted down again and again for apparently being obsessed with toilets- but now it’s the big issue"

Indeed the hypocrisy is rife.

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