Women's rights general conversations - Thread 10

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of Thread 9.

There is so much excellent information and so many active discussions on FWR that I wondered if it would be useful to have a thread to sort of "cross-fertilise" between them - airing little thoughts or vignettes that wouldn't themselves merit their own thread, to highlight other posts/threads of particular interest or to point to notable developments on fast-moving threads so that casual observers know where to look.

(For example, "the X thread has meandered onto a fascinating discussion of Y" or "Poster P's amazing analysis on thread Z might have relevance to the scenario in thread W" or "Has anybody noticed this recurring theme that keeps coming up??" or even "Random bloke asked me to smile while I was choosing onions in the supermarket, grr"- that sort of thing).

It seems Lammy has stopped the deletion although I can't find anything on the BBC site.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/02/19/david-lammy-u-turns-deleting-grooming-gang-courts-archive/

Poor female tortoises 😟

https://archive.ph/A6dPK

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/hermanns-tortoises-extinction-population-golem-grad-sd6r07jgj

The species is temperature dependent sex determinate, lower temperatures will generally produce males.

I never knew tortoises were reptiles! Or perhaps I'd just never thought about it before.

I saw that earlier and felt really sorry for the female tortoises. Imagine being pestered by so many males you jump of a cliff.

I wonder if stunningly beautiful women ever feel the same way.

of a cliff

off ffs.

I think many women sometimes feel that way.

There are no "trans" people. There are only men and women. It's not possible for humans to "trans". No matter what a person wears, no matter how much money is wasted on unconvincing plastic surgery, men are born as boy babies and women are born as girl babies and nothing can change that. Humans cannot "change" sex any more than they can change ethnicity, age, or species. It's all lies. "Transgenderism" is similar to believing in fairies, ghosts, god, magic, star signs or witchcraft. Just made up con trick nonsense. Usually by men for their benefit.

I scrolled through this list by The Independent titled 'Independent Women - The Influence List 2026', published to mark IWD and was utterly unsurprised to see 1. A dude featured (Paris Lees) and 2. one of those on the list quoted as being left with 'pure rage' following the Supreme Court judgement.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/international-womens-day-independent-influence-list-2026-b2930360.html

Well, it's the Indy. It's their last stronghold, as the Graun starts to crumble, a bit (but has a long way to go).

Please sign and share this www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5501107-urgent-iranian-womens-football-team

Just catching up from a while ago. I think this is an interesting point - too many awkward squad people in an organisation make it completely unmanageable, everyone is only willing to follow their own plan. In reality a group willing to support a single vision will be more effective than a loose collection of geniuses who insist their unique plan is the best.

More top work from Police Scotland: 🙄

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8g9e812z3o

FFS. It never changes, does it.

I wasn't sure if this deserved a thread

New civil society council established to put partnership at the heart of government - GOV.UK https://share.google/vTY7ceiL4mapjIP6p

Does anyone recognise the names? The make-up of the council has already been criticised

Prime minister has excluded disabled people from new civil society forum, evidence suggests – Disability News Service https://share.google/4J2NfSDBLz1SfN5Zq

Just read this book review 😘

https://archive.ph/GfEXw

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/good-slut-zoe-strimpel-review-x0gddgz8d

Out does Brendan O'Neill at his vituperative best. Zoe Strimple I've vaguely heard of but I've read a few articles in various publications by Poppy Sowerby. This is just brilliant.

That's a cracking review.

Stellaand crow posted this on the thread about Faye's tribunal

I've just seen that the GMC is having a consultation on personal beliefs.
Doctors GMC personal beliefs consultation - BMJ article
GMC guidance: https://www.gmc-uk.org/.../personal-beliefs-and-medical...
GMC public consultation open until June 11th:
https://www.gmc-uk.org/.../personal-beliefs-and-medical...
GMC: Doctors to get new rules on their personal beliefs and work

I started a thread on the GMC thing

Doctors told not to impose their beliefs | Mumsnet https://share.google/gf7Fo1hTiRjppmhwq

Love that review. Takes me all the way back to the Thatcherite eighties - whether that strikes you as a good thing or not, I will leave to the reader's discretion.

I've been reading a bunch of reviews for Good Slut. With only one exception (Ella Whelan for the Telegraph) the book was slated. I actually began to feel a little sorry for Zoe. I then read another review (the New Statesman I think) that reminded me she wrote that women in poverty should sell themselves on Only Fans. In the interests of fairness though, here's her right of reply

https://archive.ph/acjcA

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/12/terrible-reviews-made-me-better-person/

Perhaps her, Laura Pennie and Grace Lavery could start a self help group.

As I've not read the book and have no plans to all I can say about it is the suggestively arranged chilli peppers on the cover would be better suited on a book about UTIs.

What a terrible title for a book.

I thought things had moved on at MN and the days of bowing to trans bullying were over. It seems not.

There's a current thread about the appointment of Steph Richards, a TIM transactivist, to a position at an endometriosis charity. This is pretty much a re-run of what happened a couple of years ago in November 2023. Steph and Jodie the charity's founder were robustly interviewed by Emma Barnett on WH at the time and there was a thread about it then. That interview was frankly a car crash.

The current thread is being reported and MN have taken down the original 2023 thread which has stood for the last two and half years and, most importantly, has a link to the WH broadcast.

Well, MN tell me the old thread is still there. Here it is so people can check for themselves 😀.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4943361-emma-barnett-interviews-endometriosis-south-coast-steph-richards-and-trustee-jodie-hughes

I think the current hoo ha is that Steph, who stepped down as CEO, has now been appointed as parliamentary engagement officer for Endometriosis South Coast. Nothing to see here, look at that squirrel over there!