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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Butlin's Skegness removes 5 trans women from female toilets

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TERFtown · 09/10/2024 20:19

https://x.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1843952648460140987?s=46&t=p6GESSn09HWHVXYgTLIbJg

(I don't want to call them "trans women", but I don't know what terminology gets me banned here!)

"Security guards removed five cross-dressing men, including this one, from the women's toilets at Bang Face, a dance festival at Butlin's Skegness this weekend. The men responded with a coordinated protest and the security guards have now "been removed""

Anyone up for a TERFy weekend in Butlin's?!? Wine

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SirChenjins · 10/10/2024 08:11

TheBleachBoyz · 10/10/2024 07:48

The nature of Bangface is relevant, though. It’s not a literary or a cooking festival. It’s a dance festival that is very “woke”, if you care for that phrase.The majority of the attendees will believe TWAW. And it isn’t clear that anyone complained, as opposed to staff taking action (staff may be in the toilet area because of drug taking).

Unless every woman was asked whether she wanted to share the female toilets with males then it’s impossible to say for certain that the majority were happy with it. Even if they were there should have been facilities consistent with legislation that allowed them to use female-only toilets.

If it was so woke then the men would have been perfectly safe in the male toilets - but of course, that’s not what this is really about .

LetusGO · 10/10/2024 08:13

Security don't go into women's toilets unless there is a reason to.

We need to find away to show Butlins and the security guards the majority of the women population support the idea of women safe spaces - any ideas on how to do that?

RedToothBrush · 10/10/2024 08:14

AreYouShittingMe · 09/10/2024 22:29

I read somewhere that the security staff have since been sacked due to complaints about them from TRAs (followed by calls to boycott Butlins as a result)

So did someone on site make a complaint about behaviour which led to the security guards involvement? (I mean how did the security guards come to know that there were five men in the toilets? Security guards aren't generally standing on duty outside the toilets).

Then after having intervened, a bunch of people who weren't there had subsequently complained to Butlins resulting in the removal of staff?

So have Butlins talked to whoever identified the initial incident?

Or have we a scenario here were the voices of women who were directly impact have been ignored because activists have thrown a wobbler after the incident and head office has had a pen pusher make some decisions based off EDI training rather than assessment of the actual incident and what happened on the ground from all parties there.

In other words have women been silenced and told that they and their safety are less important than poor publicity?

Maddy70 · 10/10/2024 08:19

TheBleachBoyz · 10/10/2024 07:48

The nature of Bangface is relevant, though. It’s not a literary or a cooking festival. It’s a dance festival that is very “woke”, if you care for that phrase.The majority of the attendees will believe TWAW. And it isn’t clear that anyone complained, as opposed to staff taking action (staff may be in the toilet area because of drug taking).

This...... its the ethos of the festival. Security were most likely acting on drug-taking

MsNeis · 10/10/2024 08:20

Oh, here comes the apology, of course... 🙄

HaveYouActuallyDoneAnyWashingThisWeekMum · 10/10/2024 08:25

The usual male demographic at Butlin’s wouldn’t stand for five men lingering in the women’s toilets. They’d kick them out pronto because they wouldn’t be happy for their daughters, sisters, mums, wives, female partners to go in there if a man is present. I’m guessing this is the type of holidaymaker the security guards are used to. Well done to those men for standing up for women!

TERF weekend at Butlin’s sounds bangin’ 😁

RadicalisedPastThePointOfSalvation · 10/10/2024 08:27

The security guards can’t operate on the basis of the beliefs of different groups - “Well for this festival they believe TWAW so anyone can use the female toilets but next weekend it’s families so women and children only in the female toilets, then next Wednesday it’s drag night so again anyone female-identifying allowed in.”

loveydoveyloon · 10/10/2024 08:33

TERFtown · 09/10/2024 20:19

https://x.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1843952648460140987?s=46&t=p6GESSn09HWHVXYgTLIbJg

(I don't want to call them "trans women", but I don't know what terminology gets me banned here!)

"Security guards removed five cross-dressing men, including this one, from the women's toilets at Bang Face, a dance festival at Butlin's Skegness this weekend. The men responded with a coordinated protest and the security guards have now "been removed""

Anyone up for a TERFy weekend in Butlin's?!? Wine

I think the terminology you were looking for is 'men'

Helleofabore · 10/10/2024 08:36

So were there no ‘gender neutral’ toilets? Because reading the apology article linked, it seemed to indicate the previous venue had some of those.

Did Butlins not have these facilities? Or did these make people choose not to use those?

I wonder what more will come out.

AnybodyAnywhere · 10/10/2024 08:42

If someone attending this ‘woke’ event felt sufficiently disturbed by the presence of these 5 males then I very much doubt that they went into the Female toilets to quietly pee, wash their hands and leave.

Hoppinggreen · 10/10/2024 08:50

Are we saying that TW aren't safe from the woke bro's in the mens toilets then?

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 10/10/2024 08:54

NPET · 09/10/2024 23:28

I'm 20. I'd HATE to use a women's toilet at Butlins and find men in it. But how much worse a few years ago when I was a teen and how much worse a few years before that. Yes, at somewhere like Butlins, pre-teen girls would be using the toilets and changing rooms. TG for those security guards.

Quite ... actually this particular venue is often used for Dance meets so yep, lots of girls and younger siblings wandering in all the time.

But I keep forgetting that the declaration by a male bodied person that they have lady feelz miraculously reduces potential offending risks by like 93% or something ... 😳

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 10/10/2024 08:55

TheBleachBoyz · 10/10/2024 07:08

Bangface is a festival which takes over the entire camp. There would not be any under 18s on site @NPET

It is also a festival that will have TWAW as a core belief. Therefore the security staff would not have been acting in line with the organisers’ policies.

Perhaps but this action could embolden similar types to visit more often at times when this event isn't on.

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 10/10/2024 08:56

Glamourreader · 10/10/2024 08:03

There would have been no reason for them to fear using the men's toilets if the crowd was so trans accepting.

Absolutely. Maybe they were there for the complimentary sano ...

SirChenjins · 10/10/2024 08:59

Maddy70 · 10/10/2024 08:19

This...... its the ethos of the festival. Security were most likely acting on drug-taking

If the ethos of the festival was such, why weren't the males using the male toilets given they would have been perfectly safe - and indeed welcomed - in there? Or perhaps the ethos was 'stfu women, and give the men what they want' - as per.

Notamum12345577 · 10/10/2024 09:01

TERFtown · 09/10/2024 20:19

https://x.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1843952648460140987?s=46&t=p6GESSn09HWHVXYgTLIbJg

(I don't want to call them "trans women", but I don't know what terminology gets me banned here!)

"Security guards removed five cross-dressing men, including this one, from the women's toilets at Bang Face, a dance festival at Butlin's Skegness this weekend. The men responded with a coordinated protest and the security guards have now "been removed""

Anyone up for a TERFy weekend in Butlin's?!? Wine

Were they cross drawing or trans? There is a difference. Cross dressing is what it says on the tin, they are just dressing in women’s clothes sometimes. If trans they are living full time dressed as a woman/trying to behave as a woman does.

Fluufer · 10/10/2024 09:01

Wonder what they were really doing in the toilets...

ArabellaScott · 10/10/2024 09:02

Perhaps mixed sex facilities would have been a better plan for this festival.

As has been said many times, this is preferable to pretend 'single sex' that is actually mixed.sex.

since1986 · 10/10/2024 09:02

TERFtown · 09/10/2024 20:19

https://x.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1843952648460140987?s=46&t=p6GESSn09HWHVXYgTLIbJg

(I don't want to call them "trans women", but I don't know what terminology gets me banned here!)

"Security guards removed five cross-dressing men, including this one, from the women's toilets at Bang Face, a dance festival at Butlin's Skegness this weekend. The men responded with a coordinated protest and the security guards have now "been removed""

Anyone up for a TERFy weekend in Butlin's?!? Wine

'Biological males' is the correct phrasing.

thenightsky · 10/10/2024 09:14

ArabellaScott · 10/10/2024 09:07

https://ra.co/news/81427

Another article.

This article implies that the security staff were biological females.

Chersfrozenface · 10/10/2024 09:23

thenightsky · 10/10/2024 09:14

This article implies that the security staff were biological females.

I've never been to Butlins but I have been to other holiday parks which certainly do have female security staff. I always presumed it was so that they could deal with incidents in female toilets and with female guests misbehaving.

Helleofabore · 10/10/2024 09:28

Hoppinggreen · 10/10/2024 08:50

Are we saying that TW aren't safe from the woke bro's in the mens toilets then?

Indeed hopping. Surely if it is such an inclusive event, those male people should have been perfectly safe in the male toilets….

It is as if safety isn’t actually the issue for these particular male people.

And why 5 in the female toilets at once? Is this a sign that female people are now a violent threat to these male people.

ArabellaScott · 10/10/2024 09:38

thenightsky · 10/10/2024 09:14

This article implies that the security staff were biological females.

It certainly implies that someone assumed her gender and pronouns.

Of course we know only special people get to choose. Skivvies and workers do what the special people tell them.

'At one point, one of the security staff shouted 'right, let's get that out of here' to one of her colleagues while pointing at a trans person."'

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