Why is so much of this thread a Thread About A Thread (TAAT)?? 🤔
The Berkshire Police Appeal thread is here - if this carries on then there is a risk that it will deleted by Mumsnet as a de facto TAAT:
Can you help Berkshire Transport Police?
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4664230-can-you-help-berkshire-transport-police
On the actual OP:
The video is really weird because the conversation sounds scripted - on second thoughts, improv based on "show an example of . . " or "imagine you (blah bah) and you imagine (blah blah)".
The woman who is being harassed and doing the filming sounds incredibly stilted, like a bad actor reading lines for the first time.
What the other woman, the harasser, says is plain weird. She says, "It's a boy, it's a boy, a child!"
OK - if a child, why does she pursue the matter? Then:
"I have gotten called out several times for being in the Men's Room, so you are going to be called out for whatever you're doing. So what are you identifying as today?"
Er, what??? We are supposed to believe that the harasser is a woman who has persistently been going into the Men's Toilets? Not only that, but that she has continued to do so despite being called out? And that this bizarre behaviour makes her feel justified in "calling out" this other woman, who she supposedly thinks is a child of the male type who also varies identity from day to day? Why would she think that of a perfect stranger? A perfect stranger who (from the follow-up videos) is also very obviously female and equally obviously not a child.
At that point I was thinking, mmmm, maybe bullied-lass wasn't trying to remember her lines, maybe this is improv and she was struggling to sound natural, while bully-woman is pulling of a "sound bullying". instruction OK but the cognitive load is too great for her to also construct coherent thoughts and what comes out of her mouth is gibberish.
There are "follow up" videos on bullied-lass's TikTok channel. She speaks perfectly naturally in them and does not seem at all distressed by her traumatic ordeal. She looks and sounds unmistakably female and appears to be wearing regular make-up. It would be a stretch to call her androgynous.
She gives a detailed explanation of what occurred before and after she entered The Ladies in the Casino, where they had stopped the car for her to use the toilets because she had severe stomach cramps (period pains?) then:
> before going to the loo she gave her boyfriend "20 bucks" to amuse himself gambling because she "always takes a long time to piss" (if this is real, lady, leave him in the crèche next time and walk away!)
> but he decided not to gamble and instead hung around outside the Toilets waiting for her
> with the Security Guard who had been called by Bully-Woman and Bully-Woman's husband even before Bullied-Lass went into The Ladies
> when she came out Bully-Woman's Husband tried to reason with Bully-Woman but had no luck and Security escorted Bully-Woman away
> then Bullied-Lass made an official complaint to the Casino and it has banned Bully-Woman from the premises.
Maybe this is real but it honestly comes over like a role-play homework assignment from the sort of "Anti-Bullying" courses that have been running in schools. It is bugging me that I cannot remember which one it is that includes a workbook of activities and a video of two burly men bullying a TW in The Gents and then a couple of kind schoolgirls offer comfort and an invitation to use The Ladies.
Final thoughts . . . is the harasser play-acting being a TW who has supposedly been "called out" going into The Gents? A woman would not persistently use The Gents but it is perfectly conceivable that a TW would. Their "calling out" would demonstrate how unfair it is to make TW use The Gents. Then the TW supposedly taking it out on a woman in The Ladies - who we are supposed to believe could be mistaken for a young man and then later a boy-child. However, the scenario of Bully-TW makes as little sense as Bully-Woman when you add in all the other part of the story.
There is too much that does not make sense and the "harassment" video comes over as staged so I am going with some sort of improv.
If you watch the first video in the tweet then it is definitely worth watching the follow-up videos on TikTok as well.