BBC London - Tara Hewitt talking about Hampstead Ladies Pond

[pearlkent]

At work so can't write fully but just listened to this on local radio. Tara Hewitt, presumably a transwoman, has just been given free reign to call the lesbian group opposing transwomen being allowed to use the ladies pond "bigots". Very biased interview with, as per usual, no balance.
Apparently there's something going on with the Corporation of London today "enshrining" the right of transwomen to use the pond.
I'm sitting here with steam coming out of my ears...

Agree!

I think Hampstead Ponds will blow the whole unisex space arguments wide open and people will start to see the issues. They cannot make one rule for women and one fur men, especially when a third space exists already.

No which is great - I will watch with interest and as the weather is so lovely a summer of outdoor swimming may well beckon for many trans identified females....

Hampstead ponds already has the "third space" which people talk about when trying to work out how to accommodate trans people - in this instance the unisex pond. I think it might surprise people new to all this that this option is not acceptable.

Yeah I guess this kind of shows what the issues would be even if feminists did give up their time to fight for third spaces to be added as a compromise.

Male, female and mixed sex, should be the options for everyb ody yes? But no, male people wish to be in the female pond, not the mixed sex one. They wish to change the female pond into mixed sex just because.