To be annoyed I had to watch GB News to see coverage of anti women protestors at Southwark

[SingleSexSpacesInSchools]

A mother, Miranda Newsom, had her gym membership suspended for a year after reporting an "unmistakably male" trans woman in the female changing room.

Why isn't this on the BBC? The reporter in the video is doing genuinely impressive investigative journalism, didn't we used to have the national broadcaster to do this sort of thing?

You don't think women's rights should be a bigger issue for UK viewers than showbiz?

Wow.

Disappointed you don’t think equal rights for women is newsworthy. Shame.

Where are the unequal rights in this situation?

Where did I say I watch GB news? The argument you have presented is flawed as is the rest of your ‘thinking’.

Every female using Southwark public leasure facilities is being denied safety, dignity and privacy.

I mean, you could watch the video as well maybe and comment?

The only news channel that assumes its target audience will be interested in this story is GB News, so I'd take that as a sign that you are their target audience. Make of that what you will 🤷🏻‍♀️

I wouldn't watch GB 'news' if you paid me, but the story you're up in arms about is that a gym allows people to use the changing rooms for the gender they identify with/present as. That applies to people born male and people born female. Seems pretty equal to me.

It doesnt seem to have been reported by the Daily Mail either. Are you suggesting they are "left wing biased" as well?
As others have said its just not that big a story.

Government data estimates 1 in 4 women are sexually assaulted or raped compared to 1 in 18 men. Therefore women are disproportionately affected when single sex spaces are removed. That means it is not equal.

And 98% of the perpetrators who do that, are male, just as male as the male who forced his way into these changing room, removing the safety, dignity and privacy of the females using the space.

@Verytall you see awfully sure of your self given you refuse to even watch a video from somewhere you don’t like. That sounds like an echo chamber.

why do you not think women should be able to say no to men?

are you perhaps very, very tall, compared to females?

What PP said. "Woman suspended from gym" is not a national news story.

YABU @SingleSexSpacesInSchools.

If a man is intent on raping or sexually abusing a woman, they generally don't wear a disguise to do it. If you watched actual news, you'd notice that the men convicted of sexual crimes generally look like CIS men. If you genuinely care about women, they're the ones you should be going after. But you don't, because this is about bigotry, not about women's safety. And that's why it's only talked about on GB news and not mainstream news.

Gender they present as/identify with, what does that even mean? I’ve yet to see someone coherently explain it on here.

So how do you explain trans women offenders then? Including sex offenders.

How does one tell a man who wants to cause us harm from ones who don’t? Because they are wearing a dress, make up and usually a shit wig? That screams safety does it.

Well I was going off your account of the story and not giving GB views, should I take from your post that your lying about what it contains?

I have been assaulted and threatened by CIS men. Never have, or never known anyone, assaulted or threatened by a trans woman. I've worked in safeguarding for twenty years, never seen or heard of a referral where the perpetrator is a trans woman. So whilst I remain open to the idea that it might happen at some point, I'd prefer to spend my time protecting victims from the actual perpetrators, rather than the imaginary ones.

There is no difference in pattern of criminality between trans women and ‘cis’ 🤮 men, because… both are men.

Are you saying the 1 in 4 women who have been sexually assaulted should be happy to undress in an area which is not single sex?
Or that they shouldn’t go to places like gyms?
Or that they shouldn’t feel scared or uncomfortable?

Their feelings and rights to privacy and dignity aren’t as important as men with special feels.

'Present as'? You think gender identity is about what you look like?
I thought we'd progressed a bit more than that... "look like cis men" indeed.

How would you even police appearance to enforce your policy?

Blimey I'm frankly shocked that there are posters on Mumnet who don't believe that women should have spaces away from males. Because this is what this is about. No matter what a man identifies as he is still male.

Women should have the right to say no to males without being discriminated against. In fact that is exactly what the supreme court determined earlier this year.

I have no idea why some women on mumsnet advocate for the rights of men in this way.

The only thing i can think of is that they either are men or that they have been brought up to put the wishes of males above the needs of females, which is pretty sad really.

There's a small minority of male offenders who claim to be trans during criminal proceedings as a means of control, to cause headaches for the system. They make the national news because they are unusual (and a PITA) I'm not sure why you would focus on them compared to the vast, vast majority who are straight, masculine looking men.

And in terms of causing harm, crazy idea I know but i tend to go on how people behave and not how they look. You do realise that if a man wanted to attack someone in a women's changing rooms they could just walk in there? A good friend of mine was followed into an attacked in a women's toilets at work, fortunately uninjured but very shaken up. The type of men who do such things tend not to worry about whether or not it's socially acceptable for them to do so. Almost as if those who commit crimes against women don't care about societal expectations.

This just in; people have different opinions on divisive topics.

Men became priests, and scout leaders, and policemen, and school caretakers to get easier access to their victims, why don't you think they'd throw on a dress?

Equal rights. You seem to be forgetting that trans men exist to. It isn't one sided.