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SexRealismBeliefs · 15/12/2025 18:42

Sex Matters, a charity that campaigns for single-sex rights, will argue that the City of London Corporation is breaching equality law by allowing trans women to use Kenwood Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath.

Hearing this Wednesday.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/cceca8ca-4167-4b04-875a-40ddacfea782?shareToken=e9fe25a546d20835f1a5a66564cbf27b

Hampstead women’s pond sued over transgender access

Sex Matters claims that the City of London Corporation is defending a policy that defies the Supreme Court ruling on single-sex services

https://www.thetimes.com/article/cceca8ca-4167-4b04-875a-40ddacfea782?shareToken=e9fe25a546d20835f1a5a66564cbf27b

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Easytoconfuse · 23/03/2026 15:25

Apollo441 · 17/03/2026 20:34

They will no doubt be relying heavily on their 'survey' that showed 90% of biological women would happily be naked in a shower with a transwoman or some other such nonsense. I hope Sex Matters council are prepared to dismantle the methodolgy of the so called survey. However, this is entirely irrelevant, you can't opt out of the law with a vote.

So, let's just suppose that we had a survey and decided that 90% of Mumsnetters would like to slap a particular politician around the face with a smoked kipper until they started to tell the truth. Can we then say 'it's legal, we had a survey?' I do hope so...

(Please note, no harm comes to the smoked kipper. It's already dead.)

Shortshriftandlethal · 23/03/2026 16:11

ArabellaScott · 23/03/2026 15:03

'Fight' would be daft - men are stronger.
'Flight' - ditto, they run faster.
'Freeze' - is an option, but it does mean they can accuse you of 'not playing along'.
'Fawn' - a more socially acceptable option that means one can pretend that there is no problem. Which actually can help to not escalate a situation. We've all been in those situations were everyone is pretending a man is not threatening or being creepy, right? The risk escalates sharply once risk is openly acknowledged.

Yes, but I'm picturing these big, strapping, middle class women alongside men who are not overtly threatening, just with a tangible sexual fetish for being in women's spaces? Maybe their desire to be perceived as liberal and progressive over-rides everything else?

lcakethereforeIam · 23/03/2026 17:03

Easytoconfuse · 23/03/2026 15:25

So, let's just suppose that we had a survey and decided that 90% of Mumsnetters would like to slap a particular politician around the face with a smoked kipper until they started to tell the truth. Can we then say 'it's legal, we had a survey?' I do hope so...

(Please note, no harm comes to the smoked kipper. It's already dead.)

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Waste of a kipper though. How about if we used an old insole? Still got a fish connection.

Chainlinkferry · 23/03/2026 18:06

Easytoconfuse · 23/03/2026 15:25

So, let's just suppose that we had a survey and decided that 90% of Mumsnetters would like to slap a particular politician around the face with a smoked kipper until they started to tell the truth. Can we then say 'it's legal, we had a survey?' I do hope so...

(Please note, no harm comes to the smoked kipper. It's already dead.)

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Can’t see a kipper lasting long enough.

Easytoconfuse · 23/03/2026 21:07

lcakethereforeIam · 23/03/2026 17:03

Waste of a kipper though. How about if we used an old insole? Still got a fish connection.

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I'd be quite happy to use a chain mail gauntlet!

LlynTegid · 23/03/2026 21:09

Shortshriftandlethal · 23/03/2026 14:52

Can't say I can understand why a woman might fawn over a creepy guy who gives off weird, pervy vibes? Surely the instinctive response would be distance and caution?

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I can only think of that the man is rich. Never having to worry about how to pay the next bill is something understandable.

Or power.

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