Women and girls' sex-based rights

[StephanieSuperpowers]

Well, here we are...

Hello, welcome!

If you’d really like to change the thread name, @StephanieSuperpowers, click on the 3 dots to report your post and ask MNHQ. They’re normally pretty obliging.

Butterbeers and Tunnocks teacakes all round?

The thing I find most frustrating is the idea that once we've "gone for" the transgender people we'll carry on with homophobia and are anti gender non conforming people.

It's a stupid accusation because we're almost without fail left wing, I now know more lesbians than before through this issue and we're all gender non conforming.

Oh, and we don't have anything against people who identify as transgender, just if they were born male they are not women as adults and thus should not be in women's spaces.

StephanieSuperpowers - let's see how this thread goes - if it gets messy we can start a new one

Sure. I'm not especially wedded to any name and I see that there's a post there from @EmpressaurusOfWitchesBackFromTheDead saying that we can ask for it to be renamed, so that's another option.

I find myself feeling pretty angry about the whole situation, and how we are being painted, but it's not entirely unexpected. For me this is a relocation rather than posting in both places.

It only lasts 1000 posts, and starts crashing for me at around 700 (unless MNHQ have fixed that), so the turnover will be quite high anyway

hello peeps. not seen JTS posting on this, will have a wee looksee.

I expect it'll be an organic move for me. I only really posted on sex based rights anyway so I'll be there less and less, lurking and then not bothering to lurk, I sense.

AuxArmesCitoyens do we know you by another name? I have a guess

You can ask the Mumnset Mods to change the thread title or rather @StephanieSuperpowers can as it's her thread (!)

Same!

Let's get the urn on, heaters going.

Welcome! 🫖 & 🍪all round? Maybe something stronger? 🥃

Hope you all find each other. 💚🤍💜

You may want to sign this petition asking the U.K. government to clarify that biological sex is the protected characteristic in the equality act (link to petition board thread which has the actual petition link as petition have to stay over there!) www.mumsnet.com/talk/petitions_noticeboard/4668426-petition-update-the-equality-act-to-make-clear-the-characteristic-sex-is-biological-sex?page=12&reply=121802944

What does JTS stand for?

You do crabby - numbers and primates.

Hello everyone! Looks like we've been moved on so hope it goes better here.

That's the person who runs the board we've migrated from. There's a few more on their way who can't post for 24 hours as they are new here.

Yes but which board? Why the secrecy?

Hello all.

Tea, cakes and gin needed all round by the sounds of it.

Cead Mile Failte ( kade meela faaw-il-cha )one and all from the Emerald Isle.
You'll find kindred spirits here.

I hope you all find each other. It's distressing when communities get broken up like that.

Pull up a chair and get comfy.

Hello chaps! I've changed my MN user name to sort of the Old Place's one, as I'm fond it. It was a dam' fine bagel that I was eating when I joined up, as I recall.

(For info the talk board was one that grew out of a Guardian one: it was small - boutique- but we'd mostly been on it for yonks. Much better design and interface than MN so we'll have to help the new members I suspect )

Yes but which board? Why the secrecy?

It's a small one, been going more than 10 years, run by a single person with a few mods. We don't want to name it as we really don't want to cause trouble there.

Why the secrecy?

I think none of us want to name it or the owner because it's so small and we still feel protective of it. At least that's the way I see it.

We crossed, Elsie