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Good Law Project's latest claim - fact check?

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teawamutu · 17/06/2025 18:14

I'm sure there must be some arrant bollocks in here somewhere, because Jolyon.

But is there anything worrying in this?

goodlawproject.org/ehrc-backs-down-on-single-sex-toilets/

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MyAmpleSheep · 20/06/2025 00:11

Tandora · 19/06/2025 23:48

So to sum up, on this thread (just off the top of my head) I have been called an imbecile, stupid, a dick panderer, repeatedly accused of having clandestine motivations , sneering at rape victims, Tandora, transdora, a “male”. To name just a few. All of these posts have been allowed to stand.

Meanwhile in one post I used the phrase “you people” and a pp went all “woe is me, how dare you be so unbelievably rude as to say something as offensive as ‘you people’ to me”. So I apologised.

I offered a commentary on gender critical feminism (as a system of thought / field of activism) and my posts were deleted by MNHQ , despite the fact that they contained no personal comments directed at any user and were merely providing a commentary on ideas, a commentary that is also common and accepted within academic circles.

Meanwhile a pp said I was mentally ill, claimed that I was on adhd medication and obsessed with the thread because of adhd. She then realised she had made a mistake with another poster and apologised, which I accepted. I reported that post but MNHQ decided these personal and false accusations should be allowed to stand?!

This is how you get treated on mumsnet if you have and express an opinion that trans people are just a-ok and should be included in society with dignity , privacy and respect.

👏🏻. 👏🏻. 👏🏻

So to sum up, on this thread (just off the top of my head) I have been called an imbecile, stupid, a dick panderer, repeatedly accused of having clandestine motivations , sneering at rape victims, Tandora, transdora, a “male”. To name just a few.
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This is how you get treated on mumsnet if you have and express an opinion that trans people are just a-ok and should be included in society with dignity , privacy and respect.

In the alternative, this is how you get treated if, perhaps, you're an imbecile, stupid, a dick panderer, have clandestine motivations or sneer at rape victims.

I'll comp you the "Transdora" and apologize on behalf other contributors for that.

Tandora · 20/06/2025 00:13

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 19/06/2025 23:55

Yes, it is about time everybody stopped gaslighting trans people.

It was incredibly cruel to let them think anybody believes they have changed sex, and that they had rights they did not in fact have.

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Trans 🏳️‍⚧️ people are exactly who they say they are. Many people don’t understand , but this understanding will grow over time.

It is true that the UK is a very bad place to be right now for legal protections for trans people. however, trans people have the same human rights as anyone else, including the right to dignity, to privacy , to protection from discrimination, cruel and degrading treatment, to healthcare , to life. All of these rights require that trans people are respected, recognised and treated according to who they are and not who they were assumed to be at birth.

Tandora · 20/06/2025 00:16

potpourree · 20/06/2025 00:09

I'm very slow on the uptake but I've just realised Tandora is the same poster as on another thread where they casually dropped, hundreds of posts in, that they didn't use a word to mean its common meaning ('female' in that case; 'trans' in this one, as well as the usual woman/female conflation throughout).

In that thread there were glimmers of shared understanding but if they decided I was using the wrong tone, or if I didn't understand, I got insulted (although they did apologise). The conversation just petered out; I think because when you get down to it and try and get a straight answer, again the responses were 'it's complicated' and nothing more concrete from that.

It's a shame because I did have an interest in trying to work out where they were coming from - I blamed my atypical neurons for not being able to grasp it but the shifting sands in every post just don't work as a communication medium.

And on this thread I was kind of intrigued as to their rejection of 'there is sex and there are gender identities', and how they squared this with supporting people whose identity is based around a gender identity. Again, it felt like there was something they were trying to say, but clearly don't want to nail their colours to the mast just yet.

It's an odd one, for sure.

You fooled me on the last thread as well. I certainly won’t fall for it a third time.

Tandora · 20/06/2025 00:16

MyAmpleSheep · 20/06/2025 00:11

So to sum up, on this thread (just off the top of my head) I have been called an imbecile, stupid, a dick panderer, repeatedly accused of having clandestine motivations , sneering at rape victims, Tandora, transdora, a “male”. To name just a few.
.
.
.
This is how you get treated on mumsnet if you have and express an opinion that trans people are just a-ok and should be included in society with dignity , privacy and respect.

In the alternative, this is how you get treated if, perhaps, you're an imbecile, stupid, a dick panderer, have clandestine motivations or sneer at rape victims.

I'll comp you the "Transdora" and apologize on behalf other contributors for that.

Ah I was going to report, but what’s the point:

I rest my case

xx

Cornishpotato · 20/06/2025 00:17

"In the alternative, this is how you get treated if, perhaps, you're an imbecile, stupid, a dick panderer, have clandestine motivations or sneer at rape victims."

Agreed.

Every post is dick pandering and this level of everyone but me is wrong is imbecilic.

Gender nonsense does make people stupid.

potpourree · 20/06/2025 00:19

When you said that JKR's services and campaigns were transphobic were you not including the service users and supporters at Beira's place? That is what I consider sneering, yes.
As well as the service users of her other charities.

If not, perhaps you can clarify which people you meant were transphobic, and what actions you deem to be carried out in fear of people who "are the opposite sex" or whatever it is you characterise 'trans' as.

potpourree · 20/06/2025 00:20

Tandora · 20/06/2025 00:16

You fooled me on the last thread as well. I certainly won’t fall for it a third time.

I have no idea what you mean. That I'm faking being neurodiverse? Ok then.

Cornishpotato · 20/06/2025 00:22

All of these rights require that trans people are respected, recognised and treated according to who they are and not who they were assumed to be at birth.

They don't though.

I don't respect men that behave like this at all. There is no legal requirement for respect.

And men are men, "trans" is of no concern of anyone else but themselves. It's invisible.

Tandora · 20/06/2025 00:25

potpourree · 20/06/2025 00:20

I have no idea what you mean. That I'm faking being neurodiverse? Ok then.

that you are faking a sincere and open interest and desire to engage in an exchange of ideas, rather than to discredit and insult the person like most of the other pp’s who I am well used to on these threads. I see now I can expect the latter though you might make noises for a while that sound like the former.

Tandora · 20/06/2025 00:27

Cornishpotato · 20/06/2025 00:22

All of these rights require that trans people are respected, recognised and treated according to who they are and not who they were assumed to be at birth.

They don't though.

I don't respect men that behave like this at all. There is no legal requirement for respect.

And men are men, "trans" is of no concern of anyone else but themselves. It's invisible.

I hear you.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 20/06/2025 00:30

Tandora · 19/06/2025 23:48

So to sum up, on this thread (just off the top of my head) I have been called an imbecile, stupid, a dick panderer, repeatedly accused of having clandestine motivations , sneering at rape victims, Tandora, transdora, a “male”. To name just a few. All of these posts have been allowed to stand.

Meanwhile in one post I used the phrase “you people” and a pp went all “woe is me, how dare you be so unbelievably rude as to say something as offensive as ‘you people’ to me”. So I apologised.

I offered a commentary on gender critical feminism (as a system of thought / field of activism) and my posts were deleted by MNHQ , despite the fact that they contained no personal comments directed at any user and were merely providing a commentary on ideas, a commentary that is also common and accepted within academic circles.

Meanwhile a pp said I was mentally ill, claimed that I was on adhd medication and obsessed with the thread because of adhd. She then realised she had made a mistake with another poster and apologised, which I accepted. I reported that post but MNHQ decided these personal and false accusations should be allowed to stand?!

This is how you get treated on mumsnet if you have and express an opinion that trans people are just a-ok and should be included in society with dignity , privacy and respect.

👏🏻. 👏🏻. 👏🏻

Have you ever considered that you and your reality denying absurd views might be the problem?

DrudgeJedd · 20/06/2025 00:31

Tandora · 20/06/2025 00:16

Ah I was going to report, but what’s the point:

I rest my case

xx

Whatever.
Anyway if this thread has led to even one person cancelling their forgotten about Brexit campaign dd to the GLP then that's a win.
I'm not sure if Maugham can even go back to tax avoidance, hasn't he handed his wig in?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/06/2025 00:35

Tandora · 20/06/2025 00:13

Trans 🏳️‍⚧️ people are exactly who they say they are. Many people don’t understand , but this understanding will grow over time.

It is true that the UK is a very bad place to be right now for legal protections for trans people. however, trans people have the same human rights as anyone else, including the right to dignity, to privacy , to protection from discrimination, cruel and degrading treatment, to healthcare , to life. All of these rights require that trans people are respected, recognised and treated according to who they are and not who they were assumed to be at birth.

As already said the uk public is taking the exact opposite trajectory, so no. The understanding will indeed grow, but not in the way you want.

Myalternate · 20/06/2025 00:37

Trans people are exactly who they say they are. Many people don’t understand but this understanding will grow over time.

That sounds so like something Jeffrey Marsh would say.

It is true that the UK is a very bad place to be right now for legal protections for trans people. however, trans people have the same human rights as anyone else, including the right to dignity, to privacy , to protection from discrimination, cruel and degrading treatment, to healthcare , to life. All of these rights require that trans people are respected, recognised and treated according to who they are and not who they were assumed to be at birth.

Of course everyone is entitled to be treated the same as we are all human. But Trans people are not entitled to additional rights and privileges, especially as that would mean another group of people (Women) have to give up some of their rights.

assumed to be at birth. (thanks for the giggle 🤭)

potpourree · 20/06/2025 00:38

Tandora · 20/06/2025 00:25

that you are faking a sincere and open interest and desire to engage in an exchange of ideas, rather than to discredit and insult the person like most of the other pp’s who I am well used to on these threads. I see now I can expect the latter though you might make noises for a while that sound like the former.

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That's untrue.

I have no idea who you are so "discrediting" you isn't something I care about. I've re-worded my posts countless times purely in order to engage or to better explain my POV and understand exactly where we differ.

But if you want to claim to know what I think better than I do, go ahead. I know it isn't true, and that's enough for me.

I would invite you to look at any thread I'm on and see that this is just how I am, difficult as it may be to accept.

SinnerBoy · 20/06/2025 00:45

Eventually it will be the majority as with growing understanding and acceptwnce of all different types of diversity.

Dear me! The exact opposite is happening. As people come to realise that transw keep their genitalia in 90% of cases, that they really, really ought not to be in toilets and changing rooms with women and girls.

The statistics showing support have dropped steadily over the last 3 years. As people see, hear and read the vile, disgusting, threatening things that the trans extremist zealots spout, support drops.

When they see the violence of sturdy young men, trying to convince the world that they are women, as they assault old ladies, support for them drops.

As they realise that there really are insurmountable physical differences, making tranw capable of beating women in sport and taking their places, they realise just how bonkers it is; and support goes down.

As they see intact rapists put into prison with women, rape survivors forced to call their rapists "she" in court and denied compensation for mistergendering... As they see women who've been hounded out of jobs, after institutional, industrial scale bullying and harassment...

You get the picture.

Thinking that they will ever be accepted in women only spaces and services is obtuse in the extreme, along with being convinced, for no logical reason, that employers and service providers will go against the law and swap women's toilets for unisex ones.

Your claims have no basis in reason, just your forlorn, illogical hope that it will be so.

SternJoyousBee · 20/06/2025 00:47

KnottyAuty · 19/06/2025 23:46

Universal facilities also cost a lot. A lot more than some rainbow flags and getting women to budge up. Now that money has to be found for special lavs, progress is going to be glacial or go into reverse…

💯

I have been saying since the ruling that the battles will be won when GI starts costing businesses and public bodies ££££

SternJoyousBee · 20/06/2025 00:55

Tandora · 20/06/2025 00:13

Trans 🏳️‍⚧️ people are exactly who they say they are. Many people don’t understand , but this understanding will grow over time.

It is true that the UK is a very bad place to be right now for legal protections for trans people. however, trans people have the same human rights as anyone else, including the right to dignity, to privacy , to protection from discrimination, cruel and degrading treatment, to healthcare , to life. All of these rights require that trans people are respected, recognised and treated according to who they are and not who they were assumed to be at birth.

Utter bullshit.

Transwomen are men.
Gender is regressive bollocks
Sex is material reality

Cornishpotato · 20/06/2025 00:55

mistergendering

I like it 😊

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 20/06/2025 05:15

Tandora · 20/06/2025 00:13

Trans 🏳️‍⚧️ people are exactly who they say they are. Many people don’t understand , but this understanding will grow over time.

It is true that the UK is a very bad place to be right now for legal protections for trans people. however, trans people have the same human rights as anyone else, including the right to dignity, to privacy , to protection from discrimination, cruel and degrading treatment, to healthcare , to life. All of these rights require that trans people are respected, recognised and treated according to who they are and not who they were assumed to be at birth.

Oh, stop it.

The UK is a perfectly fine place for trans people to be. They have comprehensive protection against discrimination, which they don't have in most other countries.

If that's not enough for them and they only feel safe living somewhere they have more rights than women, they are welcome to move to such a country.

Annoyedone · 20/06/2025 05:54

Tandora · 19/06/2025 23:33

I disagree with this simple understanding

Oooh do explain. How does one change sex to become the other sex. As in physically. Not legally or mentally but physically changing your dna etc?

Helleofabore · 20/06/2025 06:19

Isn’t language amazing?

Someone describes what is in effect an additional privilege as a ‘right’ and it gives credibility to that privilege.

It also gives the commenter a sense of having an ethically correct position. Yet, if you use accurate terminology, the entire premise being argued on this thread to support those additional privileges looks rather weak.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 20/06/2025 06:25

Annoyedone · 20/06/2025 05:54

Oooh do explain. How does one change sex to become the other sex. As in physically. Not legally or mentally but physically changing your dna etc?

Lets Go Disney GIF by Top Talent

Like this.

Helleofabore · 20/06/2025 06:35

Yes. The magic of philosophical theory is very powerful in enabling the impossible to be possible.

PaterPower · 20/06/2025 06:58

I’d quite like to know how someone ‘changes sex’ mentally too. I mean, how does one know when it happens?

Do you just wake up one morning with feelings of regret that you’ve never had a pillow fight in your underwear, swapped sanitary products in the ladies with complete randoms, or pretended that every builder you pass can’t help but objectify you?

Is that when you realise that you’ve actually got a ‘lady brain?’ 🤔

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