Let's call Any Answers on R4 to debate GRA Tomorrow

[DJLippy]

R4's Any Questions talked about transwomen in women's spaces. Tomorrow is Any Questions. They usually respond to caller demand. Let's bombard them with calls. I am not the most informed but I am sure some of you have a lot to say. It starts at 2.30pm tomorrow

03700 100 444
To have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? Call: 03700 100 444 (Calls will cost no more than calls to 01 and 02 geographic landlines.

You can also send an email

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qmmy/contact

If anything it will show the producers how important this issue is.

DearSergio

Yes! I knew I'd missed something. It was in the back of my mind and then I forgot.

Ooh, happy memories of breastfeeding lying on the floor of the ladi3s’ loo (had too much milk)

And pregnancy tests, and fertility monitoring kit thingys where you have to test your wee

Ah but if you had a podcast you could edit it till you sounded how you wanted to!

And related to breastfeeding, expressing milk off when you’re engorged and the baby is nt with you.
Definitely want to be in a women only Soave for all of these

*space....although women only wine sounds awesome

Yes to bf. I didn't leave the house cos I had to lie down to feed ffs!

So we've got:

Number ones
Number twos
Buying sanitary protection
Disposing of sanitary protection
Rinsing underwear
Rinsing mooncups
Washing blood from hands
Miscarriages
Morning sickness
Waters breaking
Breastfeeding
Expressing milk
Pregnancy tests
Fertility monitoring tests
Rinsing clothes from leaking breasts
Changing breast pads

Anything else ?

Underwear fail management?

maybe men get up to stuff in their loos that we don't know about

Changing babies’ nappies, yeah it happens in the men’s too but not as much yet. Tis all very glamorous in the ladies toilets

Reading the paper and smoking their pipes?
Scratching their lady vaginas?
Farting?
(Very) occasionally changing a babies nappy

Well done shaking you did brilliantly

Running away from creeps in a night club - the loos are the safe space.

maybe men get up to stuff in their loos that we don't know about

Well I bet some of them go in for a wank now and again...

Well, if we are to be known as menstruators, they can be known as wankers...

Do transwomen dilate their neovaginas in the toilet?

@reluctantcamper - YES! I think the women who phoned in spoke so well but there is so much disinformation it's hard to know where to begin. The TRA argument is so regressive - they say men are so violent that if they set foot in the gents they'll be attacked but think they just put on a dress they become a woman? Not a threat at all! (confused)

'Vicky' proved perfectly her privilege by talking over Anita Annand. Would be good to time how long each spoke because trans-women were givena disproportionate amount and they just spoke untruths (IMO) Let me be a woman or I'll kill myself!!!!

@datun - re bathroom, this pic! (smile)

This is probably TAAT-ing or something but inspired by your posts, I just started a separate thread about what women use women’s toilets for.

I think the privacy and safety issue for women in toilets is being dismissed a lot in this argument and also that women’s toilets have actually a lot of purposes for women aside from how men imagine that we use them.

ReluctantCamper you were very poised and managed to cram a huge amount into a small space! Well done.

It is so hard when all these programmes are set up as though women don't have the biggest stake in this.

They brought on a TIF (bit of variety eh?), then a TIM, then a small slice of hugely interrupted DrW onto a biased mum, who like all mums thinks that their own kid could do no wrong until the police bring them to the door in handcuffs who was allowed to talk about things way beyond her knowledge or remit (sex offenders are more likely to dress as cleaners than women ) and other spurious claims - then a bit more DrW (hugely interrupted) ... And then you did brilliantly reluctant after that big set up. Of course, hats off to DrW too (who Sex Matters has a debt of gratitude for her great direction on our first thread )

Underwear fail management?

And they are back in fashion!😵

"Your follow-up comment about male genitalia in women's safe spaces was excellent, even though it went down with the hall like a cup of cold sick."

Did it? I thought I heard applause from the audience. Shaking, did many people clap it or was it like a tumbleweed moment?

Ugh yeah, I hated the whole “rapists gonna rape” attitude. When/if we get to the point that challenging a male-bodied person loitering in the ladies’ loos becomes a hate crime, we’re going to see a lot more sex offences committed. The ability to loiter (and wait for an opportune moment - lull in visits, lone victim) without women being able to question the person’s presence or get security onto it is a problem.