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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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Pluvia · 22/04/2025 20:20

She did. She was a useful idiot and traitor to her sex and to lesbians.

Butchyrestingface · 22/04/2025 20:20

Saw this and thought of MN. Easter Grin

Labour say transwomen should use the men’s toilet
Bollihobs · 22/04/2025 20:24

randomchap · 22/04/2025 19:16

and yet, the Tories were in power and did nothing.

They had a majority for over 15 years and did nothing.

You still haven't told us what they, the Tories, "could have done at any time" to protect women. Tell us, tell Labour, everybody's happy.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 22/04/2025 20:24

LuvACustardCream · 22/04/2025 19:14

Trans woman I know, lived as female for 20 plus years. Professional person and respected business owner. Employs hundreds. Looks nothing like a man. Do you really expect her to use a men's toilet?

What do you mean by ‘lived as female’?

Ooral · 22/04/2025 20:25

Why wouldn't men use the men's bathroom? 🙀

ArabellaScott · 22/04/2025 20:26

Employs hundreds. Looks nothing like a man.

😂

Kindersurprising · 22/04/2025 20:28

Pluvia · 22/04/2025 20:16

Those poor kids have been sold a lie by parents, teachers, social media, family and friends too lazy to dig in and help them. No child is born in the wrong body. There is no such thing as a trans child, just an unhappy one. If your child is unhappy about his or her body then find out what the real problem is. They are likely to be ND, or LGB, have MH issues or have experienced some kind of trauma. Help them come to terms or get help for that. Don't spin them a fairy story about being born in the wrong body and send them off into a terrible world of medication, surgery, loneliness and MH issues.

The women of Mumsnet you are complaining about are the ones who want a happy, healthy future for these children, free of endless confusion, hormones and drugs, which damage bones and brains. No one is jubilant about what's happening to what you call trans kids.

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Annascaul · 22/04/2025 20:29

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 22/04/2025 20:24

What do you mean by ‘lived as female’?

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Told everyone they were female, presumably.

There’s no way a man can ever have a female experience, as though womanhood was some sort of virtual reality game you can just step into.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 22/04/2025 20:30

ghostyslovesheets · 22/04/2025 20:01

Don’t let them have the chocolate hobnobs

After chocolate Hobnobs transition, are they just Hobs?

ArabellaScott · 22/04/2025 20:33

And if Rich Teas detransition they are just Rich.

lifeturnsonadime · 22/04/2025 20:34

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 22/04/2025 20:30

After chocolate Hobnobs transition, are they just Hobs?

that's very funny!

If they detransition do they go back to being nobs?

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 22/04/2025 20:34

Roxietrees · 22/04/2025 18:27

See this is what I mean - how can I have a reasonable discussion with you about this issue if you don’t know what one of the most key words to do with this debate even means?! Cis means a woman who was born a woman. Eg. Not a trans woman. And you’re just going to go “well all women are cis cos there’s no such thing as a trans woman” blah blah blah. Denying the existence of an ever growing group of people won’t make them go away you know.

We don’t deny the existence of men,we just know how to categorise them, something you seem unable to accomplish. We all know they exist, but they aren’t, and never can be, women. I don’t know how or why you don’t understand that, but your opinion doesn’t supersede biological facts and the law of this country.

You have tried to bully and intimidate and hector the women on here, without originality or humour, and I really don’t wish to be rude (or maybe I do 🤪) but the paucity of your argument is a bit embarrassing for you, you haven’t come up with one single thing that cannot be immediately refuted. Mantras are just meaningless words strung together, they’re worthless. You know as well as I do, that if you are in truth a lesbian, hell will freeze over before you would enter into a sexual relationship with a TW. Because they’re men.

ThatCyanCat · 22/04/2025 20:34

Thegreyhound · 22/04/2025 19:28

This was a choice of time and resources. It means absolutely nothing whatever to me as a woman. Of ALL the campaigns that could have got everyone motivated, the campaign to pee in a cubicle with a door safe in the knowledge that only people with vaginas might be in the adjoining toilet is just about the most pathetic thing I have ever heard.

And yet the campaign for a person with a penis to be able to pee in a cubicle safe in the knowledge that people with vaginas were in the adjoining cubicles was the civil rights movement of the era, apparently.

You guys can't have it both ways. It's either a huge and crucial step forward for human rights, or it's a total waste of time and nobody should care, which would include you. Pick a lane.

And while you're fixated on the toilets, as you lot always are while accusing everyone else of doing just that, we'll be continuing with the rape crisis centres, changing rooms, same-sex care, spaces for religious women and all the other things that must, by logical extension, be "the most pathetic thing [you] have ever heard". Congratulations.

Gloriia · 22/04/2025 20:36

'have many trans friends. Every single one of them has been verbally or physically attacked at one point or another'

Thing is transpeople call using the wrong pronouns 'violence' so I do think there can be a bit of an 'attack' interpretation issue at play at times.

Any genuine verbal or physical attack is not ok. Most if not all women will have endured one or both. The 'burn the Terfs' placards being waved at the peaceful protests at the weekend an example of the attacks we endure.

MummytoE · 22/04/2025 20:36

LuvACustardCream · 22/04/2025 19:14

Trans woman I know, lived as female for 20 plus years. Professional person and respected business owner. Employs hundreds. Looks nothing like a man. Do you really expect her to use a men's toilet?

This is why we need 3rd spaces . Toilets can be "men", "women" and " employers of 100s"

Ottersmith · 22/04/2025 20:36

Isn't this just going to lead to more places forcing gender neutral toilets on us? Which is way worse in my opinion.

ArabellaScott · 22/04/2025 20:37

Ottersmith · 22/04/2025 20:36

Isn't this just going to lead to more places forcing gender neutral toilets on us? Which is way worse in my opinion.

Workplaces and schools have to have sex segregated facilities to comply with H&S legislation.

Annoyedone · 22/04/2025 20:38

Ooh my gender is now employshundreds gender. Awesome. I’m now a business owner.

ArabellaScott · 22/04/2025 20:39

Plus, 'gender neutral' is mixed sex - exactly what we'd have if people were permitted to self ID into 'gender' segregated spaces anyway. I'd prefer to have mixed sex than a space for 'women plus men who want to transgress women's boundaries'.

MummytoE · 22/04/2025 20:39

Annoyedone · 22/04/2025 20:38

Ooh my gender is now employshundreds gender. Awesome. I’m now a business owner.

Pronouns are pro/fessional

ballettap · 22/04/2025 20:39

If the aunt is non binary, why do they need to use female spaces and be referred to by a female term? (although I still don't understand how you can be non binary but identify as female, surely they would be 'them'?)

And sex is NOT a social construct ffs. You can wear or call yourself whatever you want and should be able to do so without fear of abuse, it does NOT make you biologically the opposite sex.

Not that this should matter to your relative as they're gender fluid, which I've always thought to mean you don't conform with gender stereotypes, not that you change sex.

Gloriia · 22/04/2025 20:40

LuvACustardCream · 22/04/2025 19:14

Trans woman I know, lived as female for 20 plus years. Professional person and respected business owner. Employs hundreds. Looks nothing like a man. Do you really expect her to use a men's toilet?

Yes.

Men need educating regarding inclusivity and tolerance of other men who may dress differently in their toilets.

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 22/04/2025 20:42

LuvACustardCream · 22/04/2025 19:14

Trans woman I know, lived as female for 20 plus years. Professional person and respected business owner. Employs hundreds. Looks nothing like a man. Do you really expect her to use a men's toilet?

Will no one think of the …. checks notes… ‘employer of hundreds’ who should at all times be granted special privileges as they ‘don’t look like a woman’ 😂😂 I’m begging you to stop telling us these stories, they’re just so moving. I’m halfway to changing my mind now I’ve heard about the employer of hundreds.

ArabellaScott · 22/04/2025 20:44

Employer of Hundreds and Thousands.

Did anyone used to employ them on a buttered Digestive biscuit?

ArabellaScott · 22/04/2025 20:45

Digestives are definitely fucking non binary.

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