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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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MummytoE · 22/04/2025 17:50

Onetimeonlyftw · 22/04/2025 13:17

Who here is excited about big, bearded trans men using the women’s toilets? Unintended consequences, anyone?

Trans men are women so will rightly use the women's toilet. Hth

spannasaurus · 22/04/2025 17:50

TeenagersAngst · 22/04/2025 17:43

Hmm. Not sure that will satisfy the TRAs. Trans women are biological women.

Luckily there's a 1970 legal case that established that sex is fixed at birth so if you're born male you remain male for the whole of your life. Legally and factually.

The case is Corbett v Corbett

Coffeedreaming · 22/04/2025 17:50

justteanbiscuits · 22/04/2025 17:11

It's posts like these which is why I have two friends abused by women / anti trans campaigners. Because it's all down to height.

Never happened

ArabellaScott · 22/04/2025 17:51

'nobody can ever tell'

We can usually tell.

Labour say transwomen should use the men’s toilet
BundleBoogie · 22/04/2025 17:51

Frenchbluesea · 22/04/2025 17:34

Somehow I knew you would say that…

There’s a reason for that.

Some police forces were so keen to up their ‘hate crime’ numbers that they put out adverts with sad ‘transwomen’ being told to report a hate crime for ‘misgendering’.

Other trans organisations have encouraged reporting of stickers and I think even some ribbons tied to a fence were recorded in hate crime stats. That’s how badly those stats are undermined. They have no credibility at all.

LobeliaBaggins · 22/04/2025 17:52

Goodness the number of posters who have friends who look like men.

Helleofabore · 22/04/2025 17:52

lifeturnsonadime · 22/04/2025 17:46

Absolutely.

Decent trans women already stay out.

It's not too much to ask them to now comply with the law.

This is also something that people forget.

We already know that there are male people with transgender identities using male single sex provisions or finding alternative solutions. They respect the needs of female people.

The male people who enter female single sex spaces are not the ones who respect female people's need or their boundaries. Yet they are the ones that some people feel the need to centre.

If someone's friends who are male and transgender are so lovely, why are they not respecting female people's needs and boundaries?

Helleofabore · 22/04/2025 17:52

ArabellaScott · 22/04/2025 17:51

'nobody can ever tell'

We can usually tell.

Always a great pic there Arabella.

justteanbiscuits · 22/04/2025 17:54

cardibach · 22/04/2025 17:39

But your point about how do you challenge only works for toilets, doesn’t it? There’s significant gate keeping possibilities for all the others.

Toilets, changing rooms, gyms.. prison and hospital, yes there is gatekeeping.

miraxxx · 22/04/2025 17:54

justteanbiscuits · 22/04/2025 17:41

Because they tend not to say "oh excuse me, are you a man" - one friend received really incredibly nasty abuse, which carried on in public when she left, and she was followed down the street by the two women and people with them.

The other had all her personal details put online to millions of followers. She's an adult woman and can handle shit. And luckily her employer put up with the hundreds and hundreds of phone calls and emails. But she has teenage daughters at high school - imagine what they had to put up with at school when someone has broadcast that their mother is actually a man.

Was your friend poor Brigritte Macron and the accuser with millions of followers, Candice Owen? 😜

I think Candice Owen is foul beyond words, but forgive my scepticism about your story.

justteanbiscuits · 22/04/2025 17:55

LobeliaBaggins · 22/04/2025 17:52

Goodness the number of posters who have friends who look like men.

Neither of my friends look like men. They're just tall. One tends not to wear make up, the other wears red lipstick and heavier makeup and has short hair.

lifeturnsonadime · 22/04/2025 17:56

Now what really matters is doing something to support the vulnerable young who've been led down this path and are wrecking their bodies and minds in pursuit of an unachievable sex change. No matter how badly they may be behaving in response to this, they are victims of this ideology and as the dust settles as responsible adults we need to be thinking how to support them and surround them with responsible adults, loving families and communities who can help them heal. No apologies for sounding "soft". They've been in the grip of the cynical users for too long.

Absolutely @MrsOvertonsWindow , so many of my daughters peers and their families are in this place at the moment, because the autistic community was particularly targeted. All I see from them, at the moment, is rage at women. They need to understand that that rage is misplaced.

cardibach · 22/04/2025 17:56

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How can anyone who doesn’t know who you are literally tear your head off?
The fact trans women exist is the reason we need to clarify where they should be allowed to go - I’ve never seen anyone say they don’t exist (saying trans women are men isn’t saying trans women don’t exist, by the way - it’s clarifying which sex group they are a subset of).

Roxietrees · 22/04/2025 17:57

FlakyCritic · 22/04/2025 17:05

@Roxietrees Transwomen are NOT at risk using mens toilets, many transwomen themselves use the mens and say the worst they get is a smirk. It's NEVER been about safety. It's only about validation. Only being in a female space gives transwomen validation. They are completely safe in the males as we know. Even if they weren't, women are not human shields for males in a dress.

Errr how do you know exactly? Are you a trans woman? Or do you have lots of trans women friends who can give you first hand accounts? Where are you getting these facts from exactly?

justteanbiscuits · 22/04/2025 17:57

Coffeedreaming · 22/04/2025 17:50

Never happened

One was very publicly on twitter & youtube. I have said I'm not willing to share it on here as it contains personal information about friend. But if anyone would like me to share it in a DM I am happy to.

Naunet · 22/04/2025 17:58

justteanbiscuits · 22/04/2025 17:15

Ah, OK.

So, people that aren't allowed to use women's toilets:

Trans women
Trans men
Women 6ft and over who might, under certain lights, look a little masculine

Tall women weren't mentioned in the judgement at all. Do read it so you don't keep making such silly arguments

juldan · 22/04/2025 17:58

Roxietrees · 22/04/2025 17:02

If biological women belong in women’s spaces whatcha gonna do when a 6 ft beardy trans man (yes bio women can be 6 ft and hormones can make you grow a beard) - with a 10 inch prosthetic penis (cos when you get to pick em you can go as big as you want) bulging through his cycling shorts rocks up next to you in David Lloyd while your walking about naked? You ain’t gonna know he’s “not a bloke”. Then you’re going to look a right tit complaining to the management if your stance is bio women belong in women’s spaces and bio men belong in men’s spaces 🤣🤣🤣

@Roxietrees
1)Have actually looked at Supreme Court’s statement? It says that somebody has transitioned to such an extent that they are very masculine, they can be excluded from women’s spaces.
2) You know that prosthetic penises are not really penises, right? They need to be pumped up to work so the bulging ‘penis’ in cycling shorts is not a threat. Unlike a real penis bulging in a thong bikini or mesh knickers.
3) I would rather “look like a tit” than have men in women’s spaces.

Naunet · 22/04/2025 17:58

justteanbiscuits · 22/04/2025 17:15

Ah, OK.

So, people that aren't allowed to use women's toilets:

Trans women
Trans men
Women 6ft and over who might, under certain lights, look a little masculine

Tall women weren't mentioned in the judgement at all. Do read it so you don't keep making such silly arguments

justteanbiscuits · 22/04/2025 17:58

miraxxx · 22/04/2025 17:54

Was your friend poor Brigritte Macron and the accuser with millions of followers, Candice Owen? 😜

I think Candice Owen is foul beyond words, but forgive my scepticism about your story.

No. My friend is not in the public eye at all, but once worked in a role for a charity that one twat took exception to and decided she was a man and it spiralled from there.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 22/04/2025 17:59

Roxietrees · 22/04/2025 17:57

Errr how do you know exactly? Are you a trans woman? Or do you have lots of trans women friends who can give you first hand accounts? Where are you getting these facts from exactly?

If you have evidence of these attacks on trans women in male toilets let’s see them.

lifeturnsonadime · 22/04/2025 17:59

justteanbiscuits · 22/04/2025 17:57

One was very publicly on twitter & youtube. I have said I'm not willing to share it on here as it contains personal information about friend. But if anyone would like me to share it in a DM I am happy to.

I seriously wouldn't give out personal information about a friend, even in a DM, without their express permission.

Particularly if you say they've already faced abuse.

JandamiHash · 22/04/2025 18:00

KimberleyClark · 22/04/2025 12:17

There are hundreds of threads about this already. Was itteallyne escargot to start another?

Snail Love GIF by Radio LA16.fr en Charente

Best typo ever 😂

ghostyslovesheets · 22/04/2025 18:02

JandamiHash · 22/04/2025 18:00

Best typo ever 😂

quite appropriate as well as snails are one of the few species where some can change sex!

humans aren’t

Roxietrees · 22/04/2025 18:02

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Naunet · 22/04/2025 18:02

BundleBoogie · 22/04/2025 17:51

There’s a reason for that.

Some police forces were so keen to up their ‘hate crime’ numbers that they put out adverts with sad ‘transwomen’ being told to report a hate crime for ‘misgendering’.

Other trans organisations have encouraged reporting of stickers and I think even some ribbons tied to a fence were recorded in hate crime stats. That’s how badly those stats are undermined. They have no credibility at all.

So after claiming they weren't conflating hate crimes, it turns out they were. Shocked.

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