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“Can’t afford to buy a house” thread deleted for odd reason

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JustPleachy · 22/07/2024 16:49

There was a thread earlier today discussing a BBC News article about housing affordability.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5125124-why-cant-this-woman-afford-to-buy-a-house?page=2&reply=136968598

It has been deleted, with the reason given that there is another thread discussing the same article.

There are often several threads running discussing the same things at any given time, but duplicates are not usually deleted.

Several posters pointed out that, while ostensibly about a woman’s difficulty with housing, the person interviewed was a well known trans activist. This is relevant given that affordable housing disproportionately affects women.

Was this the reason the thread was deleted? If so, why is MumsNet censoring the discussion?

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Okay I have my hard hat on but this is bothering me… There’s an article in the bbc today about a woman making £50k/year, lives in Birmingham and appa...

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KellyMumsnet · 24/07/2024 11:11

Hi everyone. We've had a look back at the threads discussed here.

The original one that was deleted as not being in the spirit of the site was removed because it broke out Talk Guidelines. Whatever the facts, there was nothing in the article itself to suggest this person was transgender (and as a PP points out, assuming someone's trans identity based on appearance in one photo has gone VERY badly wrong recently on the boards, and that felt like a learning opportunity). But their transgender status (or lack thereof) felt irrelevant to the article, regardless, and was quickly turning into rudeness and very personal comments, so we removed the thread.

It looks like there have been several threads about the very same article, and it's likely we would have felt any more than one was probably one too many in this case. We do regularly 'tidy up' when several threads are started on the same topic, but when a topic has been quite controversial, we'd see even less reason to host several threads about it to be honest.

We'd be happy to host a discussion on the angle of a disproportionate number of transgender people being used for case studies like this, if that is the case, and whether that has an impact on information being gathered about women or not, so feel free to start that conversation if you'd like to. But we won't host discussions that become personal or that are clearly designed to be inflammatory rather than a conversation open to all viewpoints.

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