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gender fluid ! ?
They are seriously taking the pee, utter nonsense thats got out of control.

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That I guess would be the they/them people. They may feel like a woman one day and a bloke the next or go between the two.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e2rj3zj02o

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Watching this on sky news , some spokesperson from sex matters said…

A trans person who is male to female should not be using the female toilets

However

A trans person who is female to male should not be using the female toilets also

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Use the disabled toilets. Equality at its best. :LOL:

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I mean they must be disabled after binning their gonads :shrug:

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Unclear if you read it, but it does actually suggest that.

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Don't see what all the fuss is about. All worked fine for many decades.
Don't think there's a law banning biological males from biological female areas. Just that organisations and individuals can put up signs, object to, and take action if it happens.
It's the Equality Act we're talking about, which doesn't have any criminal aspect to it. Just about whether something counts as discrimination.
Doesn't have to be "policed" or anything new.

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That’s not quite what Sex Matters has been saying.

If it was Helen Joyce you were watching (it may have been, as she was very much doing the media round) she will have objected to the premise of the question, first of all, by pointing out that almost nowhere these days has separate male and female toilets but no ‘third space’ - what we still, erroneously, call the ‘disabled toilet’ but is in law performing a more general function as an accessible space, including baby change if there’s no room for another separate area. Overwhelmingly, smaller venues have self-contained lockable facilities that are for all users. In the *tiny* number of places where this is an issue, the primary concern is the safety and dignity of women, who have a greater need of segregated facilities.

Addressing the ‘but what about the sad transvestites’ question (which large swathes of the media seems to have decided to use as its framing), she pointed out that very, very few women undergo such radical transformation that another woman can’t tell she’s a woman. There may be a tiny number of cases where a woman has so radically transformed her appearance that she looks like a man, that she causes distress to women in the women’s toilet. In such cases it might be simpler for her to use the men’s, again, in the tiny number of cases where there’s a separate men and women toilet but no third space.

But once more, I’d draw your attention to the way the issue has been framed here. You are talking about a vanishingly small number of situations where a woman has genuinely made herself look like a man (far less frequent than you think) and there is no third space (a.k.a. ‘Disabled toilet’). And in focusing on this question you ignore a couple of important points.

Overwhelmingly, the middle aged cross dressers are not women cosplaying as men, they are men cosplaying as women. Be in no doubt that it is male entitlement that is driving this - trans activism is, overwhelmingly, turbo-charged misogyny, which exploits neurodiverse children, people with DSDs (disorders of sexual development, erroneously also called ‘intersex’) and trauma-surviving women as human shields. It is by far the most pernicious social contagion of the modern age and sociologists and others will spill gallons of ink over it in the decades to come.

The much greater problem here, and the one that led to the Scottish Government getting rinsed by the Supreme Court last year, is the issue of women’s rights to safety and dignity, segregated toilets being one of the most visible provisions in pursuit of that aim. Whataboutery is how trans activism has gaslit society for the past 15 years, and it has to stop. Women are deserving of their protections and their rights must not be subordinated.

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What i posted above is exactly what the spokesperson said on sky news

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Assuming it’s this clip (seems it was Maya Forstater rather than Helen Joyce) …



… that’s not what she said at all. She said that a woman who has gone to extreme lengths to look like a man can legitimately be excluded from a female toilet, according to the EHRC guidance published this week. The interviewer’s question is at 2:20 and Forstater’s answer follows immediately after.

The reverse would not be the case because a man presenting very convincingly as a woman (and there are way fewer of those than you think) is not nearly as likely to cause distress to men he encounters in a men’s toilet.

It’s worth pointing out that Maya Forstater is in the vanguard here, as she was the one who won (on appeal) her case against the Centre for Global Development in Europe, successfully arguing that knowing what a man and a woman are, and saying so on Twitter (euphemistically known as ‘gender critical beliefs’) are not grounds for employers engaging in direct workplace discrimination. She is a subject matter expert.

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They may equally qualify as disabled under mental health grounds.

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Of course having gone through hard times. ;)

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I'm wondering if I could identify as a sparrow and shit in the street :shrug:

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I'd prefer it if you identified as a bear so as to keep the streets clean. ;)

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