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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

The madness has reached Lochaber

23 replies

Butchyrestingface · 14/10/2025 13:03

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn51r017656o

Like there was ANY danger the 🌈 stasi would have limbered up for an 18 mile trek or 11 mile sea crossing to prostrate themselves on their flags outside of this pub.

A long white building with a large sign reading The Old Forge in front

Britain's most remote pub cancels Harry Potter night over backlash

The Old Forge in Knoydart said staff had received 'inappropriate grief' over the Halloween event

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn51r017656o

OP posts:
deadpan · 14/10/2025 14:10

Do GC's make complaints to venues management every time there's a trans event?
We all know the answer to that.

RoamingToaster · 14/10/2025 14:22

It's such a shame. I wish they'd kept it but then I can understand not wanting the hassle when you're just trying to have some fun.

lcakethereforeIam · 14/10/2025 15:30

18 miles in heels.

They were going to have a collection for 'trans youth'. I'm going to assume that's been cancelled🤞. It likely would be money channelled to the pockets of some grifter.

InSlovakiaTheCapitalOfCourseIsBratislava · 14/10/2025 15:46

Having been to Knoydart I am entirely unsurprised

LeftieRightsHoarder · 14/10/2025 15:54

lcakethereforeIam · 14/10/2025 15:30

18 miles in heels.

They were going to have a collection for 'trans youth'. I'm going to assume that's been cancelled🤞. It likely would be money channelled to the pockets of some grifter.

Edited

To some grifter or, even worse, into some unhappy teenager’s fund-raiser for mutilation.

Greyskybluesky · 14/10/2025 16:14

Chris🍏 has been busy

Thought I hadn't seen them around here lately

CautiousLurker01 · 14/10/2025 20:34

InSlovakiaTheCapitalOfCourseIsBratislava · 14/10/2025 15:46

Having been to Knoydart I am entirely unsurprised

Wondered if that was close by. My kids went there with school…

Thatstheheatingon · 14/10/2025 22:41

deadpan · 14/10/2025 14:10

Do GC's make complaints to venues management every time there's a trans event?
We all know the answer to that.

It wasn't even a gender critical event though - it was Harry Potter, it wasn't about the author!

WellOrganisedWoman · 15/10/2025 08:39

Lochaber no more 🎵Letter from America earworm everytime I see this thread title!

CautiousLurker01 · 15/10/2025 08:42

Am just so surprised, though - is there some big community of LGBTQI at Knoydart or the Celtic university that are keeping this place afloat? I’d have thought the demographic of the punters were more gender sceptic and may even be oblivious to the HP/JKR ‘controversy’. But clearly I’m wrong!

TheRolyPolyBard · 15/10/2025 14:11

I'm from the north west Highlands (not Knoydart) and I would say that the vast majority of people just roll their eyes at the trans stuff, probably haven't read much about it or been interested in it. Some younger people are, obviously. My guess is that the Knoydart Pride festival was started by an individual/s who were very enthusiastic, and others in the community aren't bothered/are happy there's a party/are supportive of their neighbours.
I know a handful of people who are vocal/proactive about homosexual rights and/or trans "rights", and without exception they have all moved into the area and brought their ideas with them! Which is fine, but it doesn't change the fact that the indigenous population is more pragmatic about things. There are plenty of gay people locally, but they just crack on with their lives normally as we all do. I don't know any trans people in my area (although I do know two who stay outwith the area).

What I'm trying to say is that Knoydart Pride is not representative of Highland communities, no. But I don't know what that has to do with a Harry Potter Halloween party. You'd think if all the folk of Inverie were fierce TRAs that they wouldn't have planned a Potter party in the first place. I strongly suspect the harassment has been coming from people unconnected to the community, who just object to anything Rowling related anywhere, whether it affects them or not. A shame.

ShinyBlueTractor · 15/10/2025 15:13

LeftieRightsHoarder · 14/10/2025 15:54

To some grifter or, even worse, into some unhappy teenager’s fund-raiser for mutilation.

It was going to be a collection for LGBT Youth Scotland apparently

Igneococcus · 15/10/2025 15:48

Isn't there a transwoman councillor in Fort William or Lochaber or Highlands, one of these wards. French originally IIRC.

deadpan · 15/10/2025 15:52

@Thatstheheatingon I know it wasn't a GC event, but that's how they saw it. Completely ridiculous situation.

lcakethereforeIam · 15/10/2025 16:11

There was that bloke who flip flopped between genders, is currently having a second bash at being a transwoman. He bought and refurbished a castle, fell out with the locals (alleged transphobia but they said it was about him closing access to public land, iirc) and, last I heard, was trying to sell the place. I think he was originally Turkish?, made his money in banking. He was definitely somewhere in Scotland.

Greyskybluesky · 15/10/2025 16:15

You might mean Carbisdale castle @lcakethereforeIam (although I don't know if he's Turkish)

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/owner-of-spectacular-scottish-highland-castle-seeks-peace-with-surrounding-community-after-legal-action-threat-5330959

Edited to add: just seen that he is Iraqi

Igneococcus · 15/10/2025 16:25

Googled the councillor. Sarah Fanet is the councillor for FW and Ardnamurchan but according to The National, SF is standing down and returning to France for personal reasons.

lcakethereforeIam · 15/10/2025 16:26

That's the chap!

Eta obviously a different person from the councillor.

Mapletree1985 · 15/10/2025 16:28

Let there be a backlash to the backlash

Greyskybluesky · 15/10/2025 16:34

lcakethereforeIam · 15/10/2025 16:26

That's the chap!

Eta obviously a different person from the councillor.

Edited

Tried to sue (did sue?) the NHS for not sorting out botched trans surgery. Pleasant fellow.

Anyway sorry for derailing, OP.

StellaAndCrow · 15/10/2025 17:07

WellOrganisedWoman · 15/10/2025 08:39

Lochaber no more 🎵Letter from America earworm everytime I see this thread title!

Ooh, I have a Road to the Isles ear worm, from school!

🎼Sure by Tummel and Loch Rannoch and Lochaber I will go
By heather tracks wi' heaven in their wiles.
If it's thinkin' in your inner heart the braggart's in my step
You've never smelled the tangle o' the Isles.
Oh the far Cuillins are puttin' love on me

Myfluffyblanket · 15/10/2025 21:06

StellaAndCrow · 15/10/2025 17:07

Ooh, I have a Road to the Isles ear worm, from school!

🎼Sure by Tummel and Loch Rannoch and Lochaber I will go
By heather tracks wi' heaven in their wiles.
If it's thinkin' in your inner heart the braggart's in my step
You've never smelled the tangle o' the Isles.
Oh the far Cuillins are puttin' love on me

Are we making a playlist ?
If so, might I suggest:
Well I would walk five hundred miles
An' I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To smash your windows and your do-o-or.
Dah da da da. Dah da da da
Dah da dum diddly dum dum dum dum da ?

IDasIX · 17/10/2025 11:16

A group of people who adopt a costume that many people find offensive, threatening people who want to wear costumes they find offensive?

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