Baroness Falkner: Trans activists threatened me and my family

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The former EHRC chairman on facing online abuse, her recovery from cancer and why society must not be afraid of calling out wrongdoing

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/12/baroness-falkner-trans-activists-threatened-me-my-family/

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And parking diagrams.

He's not even very good at it. He's only covered toilets and menstruation.

To make it really tick all the boxes, she needs a bloodied tampon in one hand, a breast pump in the other and a pregnancy test clenched between her teeth whilst unscrewing her bottle of HRT tablets with her butt cheeks.

Immensely grateful to Baroness Faulkner for all her work as chair of the EHRC. She had what seemed like at times an impossible task. When all around were hanging on the word of Stonewall and creating nonsense diversity policies she steered away from it. I can only imagine the abuse she and it seems also her family endured. Takes a brave woman. There are so many brave women to be thankful for. 💐

LOL!

I agree. I was going to say it is the usual hijacking of a thread by someone with an obsessive view point that they want to endlessly repeat, but dont believe it enough to start a thread about is so colonise others.

But then on the other hand it could be to stop anyone talking about the actual real life experience of Baroness Falkner, who have to fight her own staff to get women's sex based rights back on the EHRC agenda, mass the public humiliation (well it would have been for some but she rose above it) of being suspended whilst investigated, shat on by the WEC, and probably much more.

And fighting cancer at the same time.

Out of respect for her, hope posts will reflect her work, and how to continue it.

Sorry, what? "the rights of some minority groups conflict with each other, whether that be the rights of trans women versus biological women"

Since when were women a minority group? More than half the population of this country are female.

What a load of cod.

ain't it though.

And whatsitsname needs to decide whether it is daughter or granddaughter that is being picked on for having short hair.

Baroness Falkner is one of the most impressive public servants of this decade if not century. I can't think of anyone else who has shown such courage and integrity along with clear rational analysis.

lol. Good spot.

I got as far as

My granddaughter has been accused of being a man multiple times. In fact, I saw when she and her best friend went to the ladies' together, only my daughter was told to go to the men's!

This seems like a fairly non-traditional family tree - or have I misunderstood?

(AskingQuestionsAllTheTime - snap, just read your comment)

It does explain a lot. Maybe that poster is a citizen of Royston Vasey 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes agreed, and far more interesting and relevant to be talking about - IMO!

I never said bloodied tampon. She had a tampon in her hand and just rushing into the cubicle. The blood was somewhere else. Need I say more?

And the nonsense is all the hate. I should've never gone on Mumsnet. My granddaughter said to me that it wasn't very nice. I won't repeat her actual words, I don't approve of such language. Anyway, I didn't believe her, so she pointed me to this forum. She also told me about something called hash tags, like #NIONWomen.

The blood was somewhere else.

Ah, it went to a different school.

You are working very hard to portray yourself as a little old woman who is ignorant of the world until the granddaughter comes along and enlightens you and then you are all sad. It's very weird and not at all convincing.

It's ridiculous, isn't it. God knows how these people think they come across.

She also told me about something called hash tags.

😆

It is amazing that even at your advanced age, you are still able to get to grips with early 2000s phenomenon like hashtags and internets with the help of your granddaughter, who presumably wasn’t yet born when people first started using them.

Welcome to Mumsnet Granny. I think it's amazing that a self identified Granny can find this board and this thread in order to to post their comments about their daughter / granddaughter, tampons, blood and aggressive men.

Now - about this courageous public servant Baroness Falkner. I do hope she's safe and able to live her life as she chooses. As we're seeing - there are major concern about the levels of increasing violence and threats from some in the trans community with direct threats made to politicians - see linked thread for details.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5466515-mail-carry-out-investigation-into-trans-terror-group-bash-back

"What rights have transwomen lost? The bleating about changing rooms and toilets narks me - there are more and more unisex facilities now for both of these. The only 'right' they lost, is the right to cheat and to be pandered to."

We lost the right to use the bathrooms that are meant for us.
We lost the right to certain protections under the law.
We lost the right to expect others to accept our validity and lived experience.

And, given the pure hateful spite of your last line, we lost the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

Transwomen are entitled to and have the same rights as all other citizens.

What's been lost is the right to appropriate the rights of others. The rights of women to have women only sport, to undress without men being present, to access women only hospital wards etc etc.

You've finally been told no - time to put the listening ears on.

@HazelLemur

You never had the right to demand access to all female spaces. It’s not something that the law said, nor was it something that was accepted by a majority of the British public, as multiple YouGov pols have shown - it’s only by ideological capture coupled with shaming and obfuscating that people failed to speak up against things that they thought were nonsense.

I think trans people deserve dignity, but as trans people. No one has the right to make people believe in gender identity. This is very disappointing for you, obviously, but I think it’s unreasonable to get upset that women don’t have sufficient empathy for you when your cause has displayed so little for them - we’ve previously been told that being kind means having no boundaries whatsoever, called TERF scum etc. “Trans woman are women, no debate” (even if they are rapists, have penises, want to play rugby against your adolescent daughter) is the root of the problem.

Ironically, there probably were a small subset of trans people who were quietly getting on with life and whose lives have been made far worse by the activism that was “for them”- to be clear, I don’t believe those people changed sex to their opposite sex and would not have accepted that any such trans women could compete against women in competitive sports. However, if there were previously people who were quietly living their lives incognito, I wouldn’t have been super bothered. The reason I am now bothered is because unfortunately the cause has been co-opted by people who cannot cease to push boundaries and it’s only really possible to draw lines against such people with clear sex related expectations, norms and laws. Even aside from the awful, prison and sex offender type cases, can you not see that, for example, demanding access to the women’s pond for any person with a penis who claims a female gender identity when a mixed sex pond is available and thereby destroying female only provision is somewhat unhinged behaviour?

With respect, the people to be cross with are your own side.

You've never had those rights. Try reading the Supreme Court statement, instead of listening to made up bollocks.

Men don't have the right to enter women's spaces!

And why on earth do you expect anybody to validate your internal self image? Honestly the entitlement is off the scale.

And why should anyone treat somebody with dignity, or respect, who is hell bent on violating their boundaries?

Can I suggest you stay out of women's spaces, and tell your fellow cohorts to stop threatening women with rape and violence.

Then come back and ask about respect.

We lost the right to use the bathrooms that are meant for us.

Women's spaces were never meant for men, including transwomen. The whole point of those women's spaces is to keep men out.

We lost the right to certain protections under the law.

Which protections?

We lost the right to expect others to accept our validity and lived experience.

You never had that right. No one does. You have the right to your beliefs based on your lived experience, I have the right to my beliefs based on my lived experience.

we lost the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

No one has the right to automatic respect. Respect is earned.

What about my right, as a woman, to dignity and respect? Have you considered that at all?

We lost the right to expect others to accept our validity and lived experience.

Honestly, I can't get over this!

Who reaches adulthood genuinely believing that they have the right to be validated and affirmed in anything? Much less their own internal made up shit.

It's bad enough constantly going around wanting people to do it, it's absolutely crazy to imagine you've got the right.