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/

and https://t.co/OLDbQW4ipO

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.

So incredulous I said it twice

We do, however, maintain the rights to completely ignore posters who have a) had the legal position explained to them many times before and b) fully understand the negative impact that their behaviours have on women - and still don’t care (male socialisation being pretty strong). Clearly these posters have no problem with the threat made to Baroness Falkner and her family - or at least not enough of a problem to mention it.

I am shocked (but sadly not surprised) that the Baroness believed herself and her family to be at risk, but these threats have been ignored by most the media for so long. I hope that the threats have subsided, and not simply been transferred along with the job - would we know? I would love to find a way to properly recognise Baroness Faulkner’s contribution.

GrannyAurora
And the nonsense is all the hate.

Oh, for pity's sake! What hate? I don't think you have the slightest idea what "hate" means. Quote me any on this thread. Any at all.

Pity, yes, and refusal to accept as gospel truth "facts" that don't match what you yourself have written; laughter at stupidity, sometimes; contempt, even; but hate? I too was once a sergeant attached to the horse marines of the royal Swiss navy, and the other one has bells on.

Can't edit, so another post just to add:

I am always amused by vast all encompassing claims to Rights, by people who seem never to have recognised a Duty in their lives.

And I am aware that laughing at people because they are making fools of themselves is a clear indication that I must hate such people, rather than feeling sorry for them....

Oh fuck off, WOMEN campaigned for public women’s toilets to allow us to participate in public life before you were born. They are NOT meant for you.

They are meant for biological women because of the vulnerability that comes from our BIOLOGY. Being smaller, less strong and vulnerable to rape and pregnancy.

Campaign for your own bloody toilets.

Thanks.

I think that this will be great for us to use every time people are in any doubt about just how male people's demands that society treat them as if their subjective belief is material reality when it is not, is in direct conflict with female people's needs.

I have bookmarked it for just that purpose because this is so helpful. Thanks

Has anyone heard of Men identifying as trans being chased out of the 'bathrooms' i.e. Gents? I don't think I have. And it's a nonsense anyway with the increasing number of unisex toilets.

The real people who are discriminated in this respect are those with mobility issues. A disabled person can't just go out and assume that they will find an accessible loo.

So quit your moaming trans identifying men. You call it 'hate' because you have been called out on your behaviour.

Seriously!

Out of respect for Baroness Falkner can we not just for once have a thread that is about someone who has been proactive and positive in forwarding women's sex based rights.

By replying to a derailer, who obviously actually doesn't care about the sidetrack otherwise they would have crated a thread, it just means that yet again women are being drowned out.

Moreover who has the time or wants to validate someone by responding to them.

It just an open invite for them to keep coming back.

Its a piss take.

"Out of respect for Baroness Falkner can we not just for once have a thread that is about someone who has been proactive and positive in forwarding women's sex based rights."

I haven't followed Lady Falkner closely, as I am not in the UK, but what I have read about her seems to me that she's an important voice for women and girls.
💐 to Lady F., a women with a spine of steel.

'Cry bullshit and let slip the fans of trans'

(With apologies to William Shakespeare)