Man Friday hits the news!

[NotAWhacktivist]

This doesn't seem to have been posted yet. Hats off to this women (she has posted here about her efforts)

Topless swimmer wades into trans row
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9a8e437c-2a35-11e8-8cd0-05c64066237c

Oh, I read the swimming thread. Good on her 👍🏼😀

It won’t let me read the full article without registering, but I’m glad she’s getting the point across.

I cant get past the paywall but please can someone go add a comment with the petition link?

Well done #manfriday

Perhaps we should start using the men’s toilets. We could peer over their shoulders and tell them we’re just interested to know how our male vaginas measure up against theirs 😂

She's a fucking hero!

\o/

(that's someone waving pom-poms since there isn't an appropriate emoji for this!)

In the mail as well
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5514231/Feminists-self-identify-males-infiltrate-men-swim-session.html

(Or it would have been pom poms if I hadn't forgotten what asterisks do to text...)

I hate to say it but the Mail article is better. It's not just about the fear of being attacked, it's the need for privacy away from the eyes of the opposite sex. The Mail conveys that better and shows that it is utterly ridiculous when people can just say ''I'm a man'' when they're clearly a young woman, and then expect to be granted free access to men's events and male changing rooms.

Also, well bloody done.

Oh who is she? I think I'm in love.

Just a bit concerned now that Self-IDs will say 'well as you see, women identifying as men are perfectly able and allowed to self-identify and use male facilities, so, there is no issue with men self-IDing as women entering womens' spaces..'
Or something along those lines

Amy and Hannah and others involved What you have done is amazing and terribly brave! Thank you!

I do wish that the press would stop referring to feminists though as (although I definitely am a feminist) many women/people sharing these concerns are not.

The Hat! The Hat is in the Mail photo!

Also - my goodness, what's this?

Bernard Reed, a trustee of the Gender Identity Research and Education Society, said: ‘This case demonstrates that women may enter men’s spaces, just as men may enter women’s spaces.

I trust that GIRES will presumably now be under an onslaught of TRA sparklemobs, faces covered, chanting "burn it down" outside their offices at GIRES' terrible transphobia in naming men as men and women as women. If GIRES would like some advice about how to deal with this onslaught, they are welcome to ask for help on these threads.

Give that woman a medal!!

Well done Amy, how brave & wonderful. I followed the original thread and will be sharing this article on Facebook, I've had enough.

If anyone can post a sharetoken for the Times article, that would be great.

Well done, Amy & Hannah!

Well done!

I LOVE YOU AMY

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/topless-swimmer-wades-into-trans-row-38gl7m7mh?shareToken=10ce1ab71f6c680c47050ac4a85e8a40

Fantastic work, well done!

Amy and Hannah you rock! More balls than Millwall

Go Girls…. fantastic - taking action in the real world is very courageous - I salute you

Great work. A shame that the articles don't explain why this is necessary.

Amy you rock.

The articles didn't explain it enough, I don't think, but if anyone has access to the comments (paywall) a link to the petition would be good.

The comments on the Mail article are pretty depressing, sadly. Calling them stupid and petty etc. And even cruel and nasty Although I don't suppose I should be surprised.

But personally I'm in awe of them both.