Do you avoid the bathroom if there is a transwoman?

[PeachyDaisy]

I’m going to an industry event next week and I know there will be a transwoman attending. Should I use the disabled bathroom to avoid an awkward encounter or just continue to use the women’s and hope not to run into them?

Any man using womens spaces on purpose is deliberately and knowingly breaching womens boundaries. It doesn't really matter what his motivations are. He is openly ignoring women's rights to privacy and dignity, which as described by the Supreme Court are enshrined in the Equality Act..

@Plasticdreams

I do not agree with men masquerading as women and calling themselves trans.

No, not do we. That’s kind of the whole point. You’ve just inadvertently used a phrase that could have (and probably has) been uttered by many a gender critical person 😂

How can we ascertain the difference between someone who calls themselves trans, and someone who is trans? Aren’t they the same thing? I mean, when someone tells you who they are, you should believe them, according to gender ideology.

Or is there perhaps a blood test, a scan or a psychological assessment that can tell us if someone is truly trans? No? Course not, because it’s a social construct isn’t it?

I was just watching an advert for the new programme about John Worboys - and saw that one of the things that the police said to a victim was do you really think a black cab driver would risk losing his licence by drugging and raping women

It’s their intention and internal cognition that matters apparently.

One man at a work event apparently feels uncomfortable going in the men's.

This is then justification for potentially every female at that event being made to feel uncomfortable by his presence in their toilets.

Not 'lets educate men, help this man feel safe!'. Nope. 'Budge up women, you bigots'.

And women cheer this shit on. FFS.

If men are no risk, why can’t he just go in to the men’s? Being a man an all?

Erm. He isn't alltto be in there. I'd march him out. This madness has to end

It's the Shrodinger man risk. Very risky and no risk at the same time.

(Sometimes a dress is involved)

She's in Australia where it's very much allowed.

That's such a stupid and shocking thing for anyone, let alone the police to say!

You can’t in Australia unfortunately.

this thread and particularly you, are prime examples of how confused your average Joe is, who has little understanding or experience in this area.

I am soooo tired of people claiming that those of us who want single sex spaces with no transwomen are ignorant about trans people. I have known transwomen since the 1980s, I've been friends with a few, close acquaintances with many more, and on speaking terms with many more.

Like any other group, some of them are lovely, some are ok, others are utter arseholes. Some of them are pervs and predators, like other men. They don't have signs on their foreheads letting people know they're creeps.

Many of the creeps seem like lovely people. They may seem like lovely people even when you know them well because you aren't someone they creep on, for various reasons. This is like other people as well. I'm reasonably sure that if you have more than a few male friends, some of them have raped or sexually assaulted someone. Do you know which one(s) they are? Do you think they're going to tell you, even if you know them very well?

I was trafficked as a child and some of the pedos were widely admired in the community. Do you think most of their friends knew?

Maybe direct that to Dr ‘Beth’ Upton.

Exactly. Like serving an ostensibly meat-free meal to a vegetarian but declining to mention it contains beef stock, and thinking it’s not a problem if they don’t notice. It’s morally wrong.

Ah. The Layla Moran doctrine of seeing into trans people's souls.

More like pointing to an obvious as day, big hunk of steak, sticking a bit of carrot/greenery on it and insisting you and everyone else believe it’s not meat but vegetarian and you’re a bigot if you don’t go along.

Indeed!!

Meat and 2 veg, eh?

How can anyone in 2026 still believe this bullshit?
Have you been living in a pineapple under the sea for the last ten years?
Not heard of AGP? Male "lesbians" and the whole cotton ceiling thing?
Various assaults on women and girls by men identifying as women IN public toilets (and prisons and shelters etc)? Men posting videos of themselves wanking in the ladies? Men posting pics of themselves strolling around a women's shelter with a hard on?
And on and on and on...
You missed all that somehow did you?

Ha ha!

So you have no problems with males entering the ladies, but many of us women do, including rape survivors like me.

There is no reason for a male to 'pee' in the ladies. Not one single one.

Any male in a female only single sex space is automatically a predator.

We enforced it fine for a couple of centuries til the last 10-15 years. Why do you think now, all of a sudden, we can't do it?

It's not about 'butch', it's about male skeletal structure. And it always gives itself away. The gait, the size/height, male jawbone, adams apple, voice, lack of hips, etc. You think it's about 'feminine' looks. No, it's basically good old skeletal structure and voice. That's it.

Why on earth would you expect males in dresses to have the same crime statistics as women? That makes no sense at all. They’re men. Just like any other men.

Listen to yourself ."she actually has no penis"
You actually said that with a straight face (I'm assuming) and expect it to be taken as a serious point
When has anyone EVER felt the need to make this clarification about a woman?
So... HE has no penis. And...? That makes him automatically safe to be around, does it?
Well I'm convinced

Females and RAPE SURVIVORS having safety, privacy and dignity away from the male sex to get undressed is not 'manufactured', and neither are these cases: