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CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:14

Datun · 03/06/2024 22:08

She's terrifying. Especially to feminists

Bloody hell. When the mask drops, it positively plummets.

😂
Seriously....I would have thought my advice to listen to the podcast about her would make it very clear that was sarcasm!
AR is only terrifying to misogynists who think working class Northern women should Know Their Place and certainly not respond to their Etonian male betters by calling them scum. 😂

Helleofabore · 03/06/2024 23:16

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:01

I'm laughing because I've spent the last 6 months being told that it's ridiculous to talk about "legal sex", that everyone knows "humans can't change sex" and that Labour are a threat to women because they allow "legal sex".
Today KB has essentially said the same thing, after all the months of build up that she was going to be the saviour of women's spaces. It's fucking hilarious. Ed Balls stitched her up like a kipper because she's not used to talking to grown up politicians and she looked like a clown.

I wouldn't find it half as funny if I hadn't had the complete anti-Labour toxicity this board has demonstrated recently. Because my position is this is too important to play politics. KB has played politics with it and today she reaped what she sowed.

And would you care to point out exactly where she has not been clear that for some purposes for the EA, that she wants to clarify that sex means only biological sex?

Where has anyone on this thread and others stated that there was no legal fiction in play at the moment? I don’t believe regulars on this board will have denied that at the moment there is such thing as this legal fiction. There is a difference between us stating that it is ridiculous because sex is based on material reality and denying that this legal fiction exists.

But please, just point out where Kemi Badenoch has stated that under what she is proposing, that a male person with a GRC will have access to female single spaces that use the exceptions available under the EA? Ie. That she supports that the GRC will allow access to a single sex space that is using the exception.

Just give us the time stamp. If she stated what you keep saying she said, you should be able to point it out.

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:16

NoWordForFluffy · 03/06/2024 23:12

I get what she's saying. You and she are wrong, that's all!

Would you like to demonstrate how? Or is this just according to your world view?

Datun · 03/06/2024 23:21

I'm laughing because I've spent the last 6 months being told that it's ridiculous to talk about "legal sex",

See? Clueless.

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:22

Underthinker · 03/06/2024 23:14

@CassieMaddox
The facts that humans can't change sex, but humans have created the legal fiction of legal sex changes are pretty well known here. Hardly any kind of gotcha.

I frankly doubt your account of "what you've been told here for the last 6 months" - especially as that implies a repeated and consistent message.

I'm not trying to do a gotcha.
I name changed from AdamRyan if that helps verify my account. It is very much a repeated and consistent message from a small handful of posters 😂

Helleofabore · 03/06/2024 23:25

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:22

I'm not trying to do a gotcha.
I name changed from AdamRyan if that helps verify my account. It is very much a repeated and consistent message from a small handful of posters 😂

Yes. I am sure many of us suspected. Your posting style is very familiar.

Underthinker · 03/06/2024 23:28

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:22

I'm not trying to do a gotcha.
I name changed from AdamRyan if that helps verify my account. It is very much a repeated and consistent message from a small handful of posters 😂

Oh hi Adam. 👋

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:31

Helleofabore · 03/06/2024 23:25

Yes. I am sure many of us suspected. Your posting style is very familiar.

It's only to stop the boring posts about mansplaining - not a secret.
Anyway the point to underthinker is that I have faced many fairly horrendous comments for supporting Labour's position and for saying I don't think fully single sex spaces in all circumstances where women want them are practical or possible.
I'm just now finding the glaring hypocrisy of those posters still supporting Kemi, even though she's saying essentially the same thing entertaining.

Helleofabore · 03/06/2024 23:35

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:31

It's only to stop the boring posts about mansplaining - not a secret.
Anyway the point to underthinker is that I have faced many fairly horrendous comments for supporting Labour's position and for saying I don't think fully single sex spaces in all circumstances where women want them are practical or possible.
I'm just now finding the glaring hypocrisy of those posters still supporting Kemi, even though she's saying essentially the same thing entertaining.

And as usual, you have not been able to provide the evidence that Starmer has been explicit in the same way as Kemi was today.

In fact, you have continued to misrepresent what she said. Which was one of the give aways. And you misrepresent what he has said to be more clear than it really is.

Please just crack on misrepresenting what she said. Because it just goes to show how you think and the disconnect between what you say is true when we can pretty clearly see you have been mistaken. Or deliberately misrepresenting what she said.

illinivich · 03/06/2024 23:38

If labours intention is make the GRC process cheaper, simplier and less bureaucratic, replacing the panel with a single GP makes no sense.

Currently, applicants send supporting documents to the panel and wait for the decision. The panel will deal with several at once and the applicants dont appear in person.

If what is suggested here is true, the applicant would to take/send their documents to a GP for approval.

So instead of having trained people dealing with lots of cases at a time, individual GPs will have to do the admin. It doesnt make the process easier for the applicants and the GPs will be spending time trying to figure out admin theyll maybe do once a year?

Labour cant mean that, can they?

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:38

🙄
If you say so. I'm sure you know best.

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:40

illinivich · 03/06/2024 23:38

If labours intention is make the GRC process cheaper, simplier and less bureaucratic, replacing the panel with a single GP makes no sense.

Currently, applicants send supporting documents to the panel and wait for the decision. The panel will deal with several at once and the applicants dont appear in person.

If what is suggested here is true, the applicant would to take/send their documents to a GP for approval.

So instead of having trained people dealing with lots of cases at a time, individual GPs will have to do the admin. It doesnt make the process easier for the applicants and the GPs will be spending time trying to figure out admin theyll maybe do once a year?

Labour cant mean that, can they?

They haven't said anything about how it would work so it's all speculation really

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:41

I want to know how the Tories plan to get the EA legislation thru given apparently it was not possible when they had a huge majority.
It's almost like...they don't really want to?

illinivich · 03/06/2024 23:46

They haven't said anything about how it would work so it's all speculation really

Labour suggesting a process, but not explaining how it would work?

Thats a first.

Datun · 03/06/2024 23:48

illinivich · 03/06/2024 23:38

If labours intention is make the GRC process cheaper, simplier and less bureaucratic, replacing the panel with a single GP makes no sense.

Currently, applicants send supporting documents to the panel and wait for the decision. The panel will deal with several at once and the applicants dont appear in person.

If what is suggested here is true, the applicant would to take/send their documents to a GP for approval.

So instead of having trained people dealing with lots of cases at a time, individual GPs will have to do the admin. It doesnt make the process easier for the applicants and the GPs will be spending time trying to figure out admin theyll maybe do once a year?

Labour cant mean that, can they?

Yes, TRAs have done a good job of pretending that the process is humiliating and they have to go before a panel.

It's my understanding that it's no such thing. They get a diagnosis of gender dysphoria from their GP, and the rest is paperwork.

The proof of living in the role is a name change lasting two years. And several pieces of paperwork like a gas bill, in the new name.

it's difficult to imagine how much simpler it could be.

Helleofabore · 03/06/2024 23:49

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:41

I want to know how the Tories plan to get the EA legislation thru given apparently it was not possible when they had a huge majority.
It's almost like...they don't really want to?

Well since I have seen that Kemi Badenoch was preparing to introduce this in the coming months, I am prepared to consider that she might have found the mechanisms and the wording to make it work. Maybe the delay was not lack of support, but getting it strong enough to pass and to pass even with those dissenters such as Nokes.

We will be unlikely to know though.

TempestTost · 04/06/2024 00:09

ArabellaScott · 03/06/2024 22:34

Yeah. My view is that women sometimes want women only groups. Ditto men.

I think practically it might end up depending under what auspices the book group operates.

People can legally include or explode who they want from a private group. If it's a library book group, well, that might be a problem.

I think it should be allowed personally, I have no issue with me and women having their own groups. People who want mixed sex groups are allowed to have those too.

DameMaud · 04/06/2024 00:09

spannasaurus · 03/06/2024 21:22

If a law is written in such a way that it is widely misinterpreted then the sensible course of action would be to amend that law to make it clearer

This is the nub of it. Yes.

IwantToRetire · 04/06/2024 00:42

I'm gutted - was going to post that maybe we could ask MNHQ to create a "safe space" for Cassie and Adam to talk to each other as they would understand each other and not spend hours not engaging with the purpose of topics.

But now it seems it would just be CassieAdam talking to AdamCassie.

But you result in mutual appreciation.

Alternatively is there anyway we can ask MNHQ for a "safe space" to actually use threads to move issue forward.

Just when some were starting to respond to how we could use the Tory announcement to challenge candidates from other parties low and behold we are going round in negative circles.

IwantToRetire · 04/06/2024 00:44

A few pages back someone posted a link to some KB tweets which started with:

The plan I announced today to clarify biological sex in law has attracted a lot of comment. Including, of course, vitriol from the usual suspects who toxify the debate!

This is the thread reader of those tweets https://x.com/kemibadenoch/status/1797707533131411484?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

IwantToRetire · 04/06/2024 01:33

Still catching up with today which for me suffered an early derailment. So have just seen the newsnight segment.

A good example of how the media can make an already bad situation worse.

2 young women MPs both retiring from Parliament were asked to comment on Tory announcement.

The young Tory woman (sorry didn't write down her name) said she couldn't understand why this was an issue and it must only be culture wars why this had been announced. And at least 2 of her "young" friends would now not be voting Tory.

The other young MP was Mhairi Black. Who said it was all ridiculous, nobody cared it was all working okay. And just when I thought Victoria Derbyshire could challenge her by bringing up the situation at ERCC she just made do with some vague statement about some women having concerns.

But to cap it all the programmes well trusted pollster (ancient male) said it wasn't as issue, everyone knew this was just the Tories stoking the culture war.

But yet again the failure of the media to provide a proper balance is just staggering.

If you want to see an example of media not properly representing views you can watch from 14:16 BBC iPlayer - Newsnight - 03/06/2024

Newsnight - 03/06/2024

The day's important national and international news stories. With Victoria Derbyshire.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001zz28/newsnight-03062024

Helleofabore · 04/06/2024 05:23

Underthinker · 03/06/2024 23:14

@CassieMaddox
The facts that humans can't change sex, but humans have created the legal fiction of legal sex changes are pretty well known here. Hardly any kind of gotcha.

I frankly doubt your account of "what you've been told here for the last 6 months" - especially as that implies a repeated and consistent message.

I think we can safely say that what some posters ‘think’ they have been told vs reality has been shown on this thread to be disconnected and incoherent. More that words written clearly for all posters reading in good faith take on new meaning completely for others. And no matter how many times it is said in different ways to make enable understanding, it remains misunderstood.

Because that is the aim.

EasternStandard · 04/06/2024 05:30

IwantToRetire · 04/06/2024 01:33

Still catching up with today which for me suffered an early derailment. So have just seen the newsnight segment.

A good example of how the media can make an already bad situation worse.

2 young women MPs both retiring from Parliament were asked to comment on Tory announcement.

The young Tory woman (sorry didn't write down her name) said she couldn't understand why this was an issue and it must only be culture wars why this had been announced. And at least 2 of her "young" friends would now not be voting Tory.

The other young MP was Mhairi Black. Who said it was all ridiculous, nobody cared it was all working okay. And just when I thought Victoria Derbyshire could challenge her by bringing up the situation at ERCC she just made do with some vague statement about some women having concerns.

But to cap it all the programmes well trusted pollster (ancient male) said it wasn't as issue, everyone knew this was just the Tories stoking the culture war.

But yet again the failure of the media to provide a proper balance is just staggering.

If you want to see an example of media not properly representing views you can watch from 14:16 BBC iPlayer - Newsnight - 03/06/2024

That’s thoroughly depressing but then I wondered how Newsnight were doing in figures and I’m glad to see their woeful approach is not serving them well

‘With viewing figures down to 300,000, even some of the BBC’s supporters are calling for its swift dispatch or radical reimagining. “It was brilliant in its heyday but it is probably better to take it to Switzerland for a kindly ending rather than to watch it die on air with such a small budget,” said Dorothy Byrne, the former head of news and current affairs at Channel 4. “If it turns into a group of guests gassing at 11 o’clock, it is going to be pointless. I can’t see why viewing figures would not drop even more.”

https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/04/is-this-the-end-of-newsnight-bbc-flagship-show-waits-to-hear-its-fate

From flagship to flagging: cuts that place Newsnight in jeopardy | Newsnight | The Guardian

Faced with falling figures, Kirsty Wark’s departure and new ways we consume news, a show that once set the agenda is in deep trouble

https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/04/is-this-the-end-of-newsnight-bbc-flagship-show-waits-to-hear-its-fate

borntobequiet · 04/06/2024 06:38

Labour are not proposing that changes. They are proposing the "decision maker" changes from a panel to a single individual.

Which they have suggested might be a GP.

borntobequiet · 04/06/2024 06:41

I name changed from AdamRyan if that helps verify my account.

It was easy to see.

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