Biological SEX MATTERS. How many mumsnetters say "aye" to this campaign?

[SexMatters]

This document and campaign called 'Sex Matters' is a collaborative effort by amazing and knowledgeable mumsnetters on a couple of threads in FWR.

To move forward with the campaign, the organisations and individuals approached will need to know who is behind it, and the honest truth, is that mumsnetters have spearheaded it.

That does not mean that other campaigners can't get involved or even take greater ownership of it. But it needs a bio in order to introduce it to people and organisations to get started and I need your consent to describe the campaign this way: 'mumsnetter led' (and maybe even some suggestions for writing a bio on this thread).

So, you amazing gender-critical mumsnetters, do you say 'aye'?

Aye.

Thanks wandering and Longines - but this campaign is about the right to choose to, for example, go to a woman-only beauty salon and be sure that when you discuss your Brazilian wax or whatever, and go in for that treatment, you know you are not going to speak to or see a male throughout the whole experience.

If people prefer male company in that sort of situation - let them choose a unisex or openly 'trans-friendly' salon. No one is saying there shouldn't be any provision for them.

Aye

And it works the other way. Some men wouldn't want women around when they are having their nostril hairs trimmed or their back waxed. They should be able to choose a men-only salon if they prefer.

Personally, 'sex matters' is the exact opposite of what I've told my children their whole lives and I would hate for any of them to feel confined to certain activities, careers or friendships merely because of their sex.

By that token you'd be happy for your daughter to be housed in a male prison then?

SexDOES matter. Not in most every day situations, but in some situations that some people might encounter. And in those situations it's vital that women have the legal right to say 'No I will not share with a biological male.'

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Aye and thank you

Aye :)

I'm hoping my daughter will never need to be housed in any prison, though life has no guarantees.

More pertinently, I'm hoping that when she goes to university, she will be to say 'No I will not share with a biological male' when choosing shared accommodation, should she wish.

Titchy, the fact that sex matters is exactly why I taught my DS who was insisting he'd carry a baby when he is older that it's not physically possible. There are things that one sex can do and the other can't.

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Aye. Women need safe spaces.

Aye, and thanks.

Aye, and well done.

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