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About Gender neutral loo

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paulhollywoodshairgel · 14/08/2025 18:59

I was in a museum today and my daughter (15) left me to go to the loo. She then waved me over.. she said to me.. I’d rather not use the gender neutral loo. I said that’s fine and sent her down a level to the ladies. A woman the approached me and preceded to tell me off for not encouraging my daughter to use the GN loo. How she has a trans child and how are they ever going to feel accepted with people like me around. I’m ND and I always second guess myself 10000 times a day. I wasn’t in the wrong was I?? I just said ok go and use the other separate loo. Surely my child can pee wherever she feels comfortable??!! I hate conflict so I just said ok and walked off!

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DrPrunesqualer · 16/08/2025 20:39

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 20:30

‘One of these things is not like the other…’

I love this thread! It’s comedy gold.

My first is in man, but not in testes

My second is in woman, but not in DSD

🤣🤣

Deer Popcorn GIF

Loving thread too
Hilarious

Lurking as a Lamma 😄

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 20:43

Now you see you say Lamma, but do you recognise yourself as a lamma or were you actually registered as a Lamma at birth?

Now I recognise myself as a drama Lamma, whereas I was registered as an alpaca at birth.

DrPrunesqualer · 16/08/2025 20:46

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 20:43

Now you see you say Lamma, but do you recognise yourself as a lamma or were you actually registered as a Lamma at birth?

Now I recognise myself as a drama Lamma, whereas I was registered as an alpaca at birth.

No I just think I’m a Lamma but I have no idea what a Lamma is

I won’t use Alpaca's toilets though…promise. I’m a respectful pretend Lamma

CohensDiamondTeeth · 16/08/2025 20:46

I don’t need to be able to exhaustively “define” the colour blue to be able to identify blue things when I see them.

This colour blue stuff is another really weird irrelevant analogy, a distraction, and again doesn't really prove what you think it does. You do talk some amount of guff.

Even if someone doesn't feel the need to personally be able to exhaustively define the colour blue, there is a commonly accepted scientific definition of the colour blue, and which points on the colour spectrum the blue occupies before it becomes violet or cyan.

I feel that since it's in quote marks, Tandora will soon likely tell us that "define" has an ultra complex, polysyllabic meaning which would go completely over the head of a lesser intellect such as mine.

Honestly I'm just waiting for the day when Tandora's definitions become so complex that spoken language can no longer do these super-duper complicated meanings justice, and will necessitate Tandora to include some kind of additional means of imparting the information that Tandora thinks language sadly doesn't quite convey alone. Perhaps interpretive dance?

CohensDiamondTeeth · 16/08/2025 20:52

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 20:33

‘I’m Brian!’

’I’m Brian!!’

’No, I’m Brian!’

’I’m Brian, and so is my wife!’

😂😂😂

This is reminding me of the "I'm not Spartacus" moment from all the NHS Fife witnesses in the Sandie Peggie tribunal 😂

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 20:53

Interpretative dance 🤣🤣

I’m here for that all day long!

I’m thinking a Kate Bush vibe!

CohensDiamondTeeth · 16/08/2025 20:54

I miss the laugh emoji so much right now, I'm doing heart emojis instead 😂

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 20:57

Oh god yes! It is beyond parody.

I like the Life of Brian link as of course we had the fabulous Terry Jones playing Jesus’ mother. Plus the ever changing word salad of the Peoples Group of Judea, with the revelation at the end that one of the men would now be known by a woman’s name. Prophetic or what!

DrPrunesqualer · 16/08/2025 20:57

Has anyone else noticed on the many threads on this subject that ‘ye old faithful’ comes on they disappear between 8 and 9pm

Have they gone to revise or been told to put the lights out
🤫

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 21:01

Interesting observation 🤔

I guess those years of intensive research don’t research themselves, so maybe it’s a couple of hours on X, Reddit & the David Ike website?

CohensDiamondTeeth · 16/08/2025 21:02
season 3 dance GIF by Portlandia

Kate Bush Wuthering Heights vibe would be the right amount of drama and angst that's for sure! 😂😂😂

I was thinking something a little more colourful 😂I think it would suit the MRA/TRA style too.

Maybe a combo of both? Keep the smoky wistful atmosphere, the teenage angsty dramatics of KB's WH, but with some colourful, sparkly outfits, unlikely wigs and unsurprisingly large shoes 😂

stichguru · 16/08/2025 21:03

The woman who approached you was out of order. The stark reality though is that have been places that only had GN loos for as long as I remember, mostly small places with only one or two toilets in total. Maybe they weren't called GN loos, maybe they were called male/female loos or even just loos. If your daughter won't use GN loos, she is going to find lots of places she can't go to the loo! Which obviously is her choice....

DrPrunesqualer · 16/08/2025 21:04

CohensDiamondTeeth · 16/08/2025 21:02

Kate Bush Wuthering Heights vibe would be the right amount of drama and angst that's for sure! 😂😂😂

I was thinking something a little more colourful 😂I think it would suit the MRA/TRA style too.

Maybe a combo of both? Keep the smoky wistful atmosphere, the teenage angsty dramatics of KB's WH, but with some colourful, sparkly outfits, unlikely wigs and unsurprisingly large shoes 😂

dinosaur dancing GIF

Or just

Namelessnelly · 16/08/2025 21:06

Tandora · 16/08/2025 20:22

I know I’m a woman.

A trans woman knows she’s a woman.

i know my mum is a woman.

I know my granny is a woman.

I know my child’s teacher is a woman.

Etc.

Yes there is no one single scientific/ academic/ medical way to define a woman - you can’t rely on birth registration, you can’t rely on chromosomes, you can’t rely on genitals- as whatever you chose there are always exceptions. It doesn’t matter. I don’t need to be able to exhaustively “define” the colour blue to be able to identify blue things when I see them.

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Well you kind of do. What if what you think of as blue is at total odds to what everyone else thinks of as blue? What if you’re really seeing green but you’ve convinced yourself it’s blue. You’ll just look really really stupid.

so if there is no way of being a woman that can be defined, woman means nothing doesn’t it? So therefor the only thing we can rely on is sex. So everyone uses the facilities designated for their sex and everyone is happy. I mean. You’ve just agreed a man is an adult male and a woman is an adult female. In my post asking how a transman knew they were not a man, you said it was because they knew they were female. Therefore a man must be male. Therefore a woman must be female, so a transwoman is not a woman as they are male. So you’ve just confirmed transwomen are men according to you.

CohensDiamondTeeth · 16/08/2025 21:06

DrPrunesqualer · 16/08/2025 20:57

Has anyone else noticed on the many threads on this subject that ‘ye old faithful’ comes on they disappear between 8 and 9pm

Have they gone to revise or been told to put the lights out
🤫

At least we know Tandora is getting some rest (hopefully) these days, I was genuinely worried for Tandora during the Olympic boxing fiasco as Tandora seemed to only rest for a few hours a day before returning to prolifically posting again.

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 21:06

I’m just imagining Isla Bumba (thank you god for that name🤣)
doing a similar sketch.

I’d love to have been a fly on the wall when she got home that night. Pacing the kitchen with her head in her hands ‘Did I really say that I couldn’t be sure what sex I am?!!’ I think the cringe would land you in A&E.

Namelessnelly · 16/08/2025 21:07

stichguru · 16/08/2025 21:03

The woman who approached you was out of order. The stark reality though is that have been places that only had GN loos for as long as I remember, mostly small places with only one or two toilets in total. Maybe they weren't called GN loos, maybe they were called male/female loos or even just loos. If your daughter won't use GN loos, she is going to find lots of places she can't go to the loo! Which obviously is her choice....

But all loos are gender neutral. No one checks anyone’s gender. All loos should however be single sex. I’m all for mixed gender single sexfavilities. That way everyone is happy. Transpeople can go into the loos of their sex secure in their gender.

DrPrunesqualer · 16/08/2025 21:11

CohensDiamondTeeth · 16/08/2025 21:06

At least we know Tandora is getting some rest (hopefully) these days, I was genuinely worried for Tandora during the Olympic boxing fiasco as Tandora seemed to only rest for a few hours a day before returning to prolifically posting again.

I’m going to have to search those threads. I bet they’re worth a read.

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 21:12

I can’t stop laughing at ‘unsurprisingly large shoes’ 🤣🤣

Like the first time somebody described the feet of a man dressed as a woman as ‘canoes’

SoThisisMe · 16/08/2025 21:14

You were polite. I would have told her to do one and that encouraging a child in a delusion is shitty parenting. But I am completely out of patience with gender wang and have no fucks left to give.

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 21:16

I too missed those boxing threads. I feel the subject of DSDs would have been doing a lot of heavy (weight) lifting? Not in any sort of useful or truthful way though.

CohensDiamondTeeth · 16/08/2025 21:16

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 21:12

I can’t stop laughing at ‘unsurprisingly large shoes’ 🤣🤣

Like the first time somebody described the feet of a man dressed as a woman as ‘canoes’

😂

And the outfit I picked out above really suits all the TRA allies and handmaidens too!

Going by the nonsense they spout it's practically a required uniform for them.

NeverOneBiscuit · 16/08/2025 21:26

Took a quick look at that thread. Have already seen reference to a ‘subconscious sex’. A seam of comedy gold to be mined.

Imagine spending so much of your life making up ways for men to pretend that they’re women!! Let the buggers just pull on a frock & take their chances! Let’s face it, it’s worked pretty well up until now. I wonder if the transmaidens realise there’s no medal?

I also wonder when they’ll realise that lots of women don’t care about being seen as unkind?

Tandora · 17/08/2025 09:42

Namelessnelly · 16/08/2025 21:06

Well you kind of do. What if what you think of as blue is at total odds to what everyone else thinks of as blue? What if you’re really seeing green but you’ve convinced yourself it’s blue. You’ll just look really really stupid.

so if there is no way of being a woman that can be defined, woman means nothing doesn’t it? So therefor the only thing we can rely on is sex. So everyone uses the facilities designated for their sex and everyone is happy. I mean. You’ve just agreed a man is an adult male and a woman is an adult female. In my post asking how a transman knew they were not a man, you said it was because they knew they were female. Therefore a man must be male. Therefore a woman must be female, so a transwoman is not a woman as they are male. So you’ve just confirmed transwomen are men according to you.

In my post asking how a transman knew they were not a man, you said it was because they knew they were female

No. I said they knew they were registered female at birth. Surely you can understand the difference ? The assumption that being registered female at birth = being female is yours.

A trans man knows themselves to be male. They also know they were registered/ observed female at birth. That’s what makes a person a trans man.

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