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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions
Evolutionarygoals · 15/09/2026 08:14

Awe ffs. Why can they not see the bigger picture?! Maybe I'm naive but it never fails to amaze me how women simply don't count.

On a personal level i'm cross, because we have some stuff brewing at work and management are encouraging people to join the Union. I was tempted to do so but this sort of shite makes it very difficult.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 15/09/2026 08:16

The aunt Lydia's of the TUC march on prioritising men over women

if ppl can't see by now what a massively misogynistic movement this is then I can't help them

Mumteedum · 15/09/2026 08:17

I wish unions would concentrate on the issues faced by majority members and not political positions.

Mouldemort · 15/09/2026 08:22

As always on this board, “defending women” is a twisted euphemism for transphobia. Union members support LGBT+ rights and the restoration of the original intent of the drafters of the 2010 EA.

ALovelyPinkUnicorn · 15/09/2026 08:24

Mouldemort · 15/09/2026 08:22

As always on this board, “defending women” is a twisted euphemism for transphobia. Union members support LGBT+ rights and the restoration of the original intent of the drafters of the 2010 EA.

What rights are they needing @Mouldemort that they don’t already have?

Theeyeballsinthesky · 15/09/2026 08:27

Mouldemort · 15/09/2026 08:22

As always on this board, “defending women” is a twisted euphemism for transphobia. Union members support LGBT+ rights and the restoration of the original intent of the drafters of the 2010 EA.

you really just hate women and you don't even bother to hide it

anyway, trans ppl already have rights under the equality act and the same human rights as everyone else has. What TW ie men because lbh that's what this is about want, is extra rights ie women's rights

they can't have women's rights because they're not women

but you know this

nutmeg7 · 15/09/2026 08:54

Mouldemort · 15/09/2026 08:22

As always on this board, “defending women” is a twisted euphemism for transphobia. Union members support LGBT+ rights and the restoration of the original intent of the drafters of the 2010 EA.

Oh FUCK OFF.

The original meaning in the Equality act 2010 is SEX. It’s women’s SEX that makes us vulnerable to discrimination and male violence.

Gender-fucking-identity is NOT SEX.
No matter how much sad men want to be female, they are UTTERLY IGNORANT about what it is to be female. COMPLETELY FUCKING IGNORANT. It is a projected fantasy and it is 100% disrespectful appropriation.

The court went over this very clearly and in great depth. Sex discrimination only makes sense if is is about a person’s actual sex.

BackToLurk · 15/09/2026 08:59

Mouldemort · 15/09/2026 08:22

As always on this board, “defending women” is a twisted euphemism for transphobia. Union members support LGBT+ rights and the restoration of the original intent of the drafters of the 2010 EA.

Tell me you didn’t follow the links without telling me you didn’t follow the links.

PermanentTemporary · 15/09/2026 09:00

It’s an acknowledgment that to eliminate sex as a factor in policy, the law is going to have to be changed. I hope to goodness that this is never achieved, but it is at least a belated recognition that the law currently does not allow sex to disappear from the record. I am crossing my fingers that even those MPs who think somebody’s random idea of ‘gender’ should override sex recognise what a dragged out toxic unwinnable electoral quagmire of a fight this would be, and they avoid it as much as possible. Perhaps they even recognise the factual issues, who knows. My MP is a true believer but even she does do her best to represent what her constituents, including me, say

Igmum · 15/09/2026 09:02

The majority of union members in this country are women. What is wrong with these people? I can see why no one spoke against because they would probably have been lynched by the TRAs, but elevating TW in this way (and it isn’t TM they are campaigning for) not only damages women’s rights, it damages LGB rights, means victims of rape and sexual assault can’t get single sex support and are tied by the same urinary leash that will impact Orthodox Jews, Muslims and anyone who simply doesn’t want to share a toilet with a man. There will be question marks over TM’s entitlement to maternity leave and maternity pay. Women’s sport will be damaged. And all so that men don’t feel sad?

I’ve been a trade union member for over four decades and I’m absolutely livid.

BunnyBunbunbun · 15/09/2026 09:03

Mouldemort · 15/09/2026 08:22

As always on this board, “defending women” is a twisted euphemism for transphobia. Union members support LGBT+ rights and the restoration of the original intent of the drafters of the 2010 EA.

The phrase "LGBT+ rights" is an oxymoron. Among the biggest victims of trans ideology have been gay kids confused about their sexuality who've been led to believe that what they're feeling means they must be the opposite sex. See Keira Bell or Ritchie Herron.

In what way is it pro-gay rights to tell lesbians that we're"transphobic" if we're not willing to date biological men who "identify" as lesbians? Why do you imagine that all lesbians and gay men support biological men in women's sports or women's toilets? What does any of that have to do with gay rights?

Meadowfinch · 15/09/2026 09:07

The union old boys and traditional Labour heartland have always done everything they can to hold women back and deny women their rights.

There is nothing that surprises me here at all. Thankfully they will never get their way.

Bloodysquirellls · 15/09/2026 09:09

nutmeg7 · 15/09/2026 08:54

Oh FUCK OFF.

The original meaning in the Equality act 2010 is SEX. It’s women’s SEX that makes us vulnerable to discrimination and male violence.

Gender-fucking-identity is NOT SEX.
No matter how much sad men want to be female, they are UTTERLY IGNORANT about what it is to be female. COMPLETELY FUCKING IGNORANT. It is a projected fantasy and it is 100% disrespectful appropriation.

The court went over this very clearly and in great depth. Sex discrimination only makes sense if is is about a person’s actual sex.

Wow great speech. If only we could vote to pin posts to head a board

Rollingpinofdoom · 15/09/2026 09:12

Mouldemort · 15/09/2026 08:22

As always on this board, “defending women” is a twisted euphemism for transphobia. Union members support LGBT+ rights and the restoration of the original intent of the drafters of the 2010 EA.

So hold on, if women defending their right to single sex spaces is “transphobic”, then surely TRA defending trans rights are misogynistic? If not, why not?

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/09/2026 09:17

Mumteedum · 15/09/2026 08:17

I wish unions would concentrate on the issues faced by majority members and not political positions.

Everyone who goes to conference is an activist......they don't really represent their membership. This is true for all trade unions including teachers' and doctors' unions. and as activists they are committed to the 'progressive' doctrine - no questions asked.

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/09/2026 09:18

Rollingpinofdoom · 15/09/2026 09:12

So hold on, if women defending their right to single sex spaces is “transphobic”, then surely TRA defending trans rights are misogynistic? If not, why not?

Because the doctine says that " there is no conflict between trans rights and women's rights".

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/09/2026 09:19

Meadowfinch · 15/09/2026 09:07

The union old boys and traditional Labour heartland have always done everything they can to hold women back and deny women their rights.

There is nothing that surprises me here at all. Thankfully they will never get their way.

A lot of these activists are women. Women can be just as susceptible to ideological group think as men.

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/09/2026 09:20

Mouldemort · 15/09/2026 08:22

As always on this board, “defending women” is a twisted euphemism for transphobia. Union members support LGBT+ rights and the restoration of the original intent of the drafters of the 2010 EA.

Going by that interpretation then women are not a consideration at all. They don't exist as a distinct category with established protections.

Rollingpinofdoom · 15/09/2026 09:22

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/09/2026 09:18

Because the doctine says that " there is no conflict between trans rights and women's rights".

But then I would like a TRA to explain to me why, if there is no conflict, women saying no is “transphobic”. @Mouldemort any answers?

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/09/2026 09:24

Rollingpinofdoom · 15/09/2026 09:22

But then I would like a TRA to explain to me why, if there is no conflict, women saying no is “transphobic”. @Mouldemort any answers?

Even posing such a question is outside the realm of what is permitted. No questions asked. No debate. The nature of trans activism is totalitarian in nature - it has to be because it is working against reality and must therefore maintain total control over the narrative at all times.

Rightsraptor · 15/09/2026 09:40

Didn't Trevor Phillips, who had been chair of the EHRC at the time it was drafted, say recently that they had never thought for a moment that the Act would be interpreted through a 'people can change sex' lense?

DrBlackbird · 15/09/2026 09:43

Mumteedum · 15/09/2026 08:17

I wish unions would concentrate on the issues faced by majority members and not political positions.

This. I’m fed up of my union (UCU) campaigning on every cause under the sun apart from the real issues facing university staff. Our president is, IMO, a waste of space leading her chants of ‘trans rights are human rights’ (what rights do transgender individuals not possess?) instead of working hard to protect jobs. How she got re-elected I’ll never understand.

Rollingpinofdoom · 15/09/2026 09:45

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/09/2026 09:24

Even posing such a question is outside the realm of what is permitted. No questions asked. No debate. The nature of trans activism is totalitarian in nature - it has to be because it is working against reality and must therefore maintain total control over the narrative at all times.

Yes. I have been in that space, and for a while was a trans ally. I questioned the transborg, was bullied, shouted and and threatened. Got told to educate myself nd, well, here I am.

GreyskySexRealistsky · 15/09/2026 09:55

Rightsraptor · 15/09/2026 09:40

Didn't Trevor Phillips, who had been chair of the EHRC at the time it was drafted, say recently that they had never thought for a moment that the Act would be interpreted through a 'people can change sex' lense?

Yes. Excerpts from his X post below:

https://x.com/TrevorPTweets/status/2057780825148490016

In a previous life, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, I had a hand in writing this country’s equality laws, in particular the 2010 Equality Act. It never occurred to any of us that there could be any confusion or dispute over the meaning of the words man and woman. But it has taken a decade of campaigning, a Supreme Court judgement and now hundreds of pages of guidance to settle the issue.
This is not about so called trans rights, which are completely unaffected by this guidance, since no-one has ever had the right to walk into a changing room reserved for teenage girls. What it does mean is that women and girls are guaranteed the protection they deserve, and that their safety, which we spent half a decade drafting law to ensure, is protected.

In a democracy, there’s little point in Parliament deciding anything if the law is then made an ass by activists intimidating bosses in companies, schools, universities and the media into doing something different.

Second, at the heart of the campaign to undermine the Equality Act is an idea that we specifically rejected in 2010, so called self-identification. That is to say, that it should be up to the individual to decide whether they have what’s called a protected characteristic - are you male or female, are you black or white. The problem is that self-ID would destroy the operation of any law against discrimination.

(my bolding)

Theeyeballsinthesky · 15/09/2026 09:58

Do they really not see how this plays right into the hands of reform?

TUC motion erases women from their own rights.