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Those in prison are there to receive their punishment. I wouldn't have much sympathy if someone was victimised by someone claiming to be trans in a woman's prison but that isn't the same thing as saying I would want it to happen. Besides, most people in prison aren't there for the most serious offences.

Yes because Semenya is a biological male.

You're still either biologically male or female. Either congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) or androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS).

Sorry? A butch woman is still biologically a woman. A bird doesn't morph into a different sex if they don a pair of cargo pants and shave their head.

Was empty again last night too. Fully stocked and zero customers. Well dodgy.

Why are you pointing out things that no one ever argued with? I said it has an impact on me because I have females in my family whose lives will be positively impacted by this so it will have an impact on the society that I live in. All the more reason for me to be happy about this outcome if as you correctly point out I have cared about this issue for a long time. With respect I don't really give a fuck what you think you might infer from my posts. I'm confident and know exactly what I think without you trying to stick some hidden meaning into what I write. As a biological man if you want to put on a dress and call yourself a women's name then all power to you. You certainly shouldn't be treated badly or abused for that but the court has now ruled that you are still biologically male and you can't change sex with all the implications that has. That's a significant victory for women and one that in my opinion is worth celebrating since as you say its a deep unfairness that has caused real distress in many women for a long time. I'm not pretending I know what your motives are because you don't really care about it. I could say something like "I don't buy your act you're just saying you don't care because you are bigoted against women." You actually have no clue if my happiness at this ruling comes from a place of genuine concern for the rights of women including the ones in my life but I'm telling you that is the case.

Obviously men are impacted differently that's never been in dispute. If you were aware of this issue, you'd know that there are plenty of men involved in the movement because they deeply care about women's rights. Are all those men who have campaigned alongside women on this similarly bigoted for caring more about it than you do?

Since you have zero idea how the vast majority of posters on here spend their time outside of the forum, what issues they have previously been interested in nor how the personal lives of females in their lives would be affected by this, you would have no way of knowing if that is true or not. It would be akin to you expressing happiness if conditions improved for Palestinians and then being accused of having care/concern to cover for bigotry because you hate Jews.

The ambiguity prior to the clarification today has meant that some governing bodies have been reluctant to enforce a ban. This clear ruling today will mean that they will now have confidence to act and may be compelled to do so if they continue to fail to comply with the law as written.

According to reality they are biological women. Taking hormones and looking like a man in order to relieve their gender dysphoria doesn't make them a biological male. This is basic stuff that is also accurate in the law. In reality though anyone who looks like a man isn't really going to have an issue continuing to use the men's loos are they. This is mainly about preventing women from being forced to share single sex spaces with biological men.

Well seeing as you falsely smeared me with this label earlier, attributing things to me that I'd never said and opinions I'd never held, I'm not sure you can say with confidence that the people who had a problem with biological men in women's prisons had ever previously cared about prisoner welfare.

Amen.

Eh? The point that you can only ever be happy about something if it affects you directly is patently absurd. Leaving aside that as a father and a husband it clearly does affect me. Have you ever given to charity? I ran a marathon once for a charity that had no impact on me whatsoever. Outrageous. To use an example a little closer to home, if the IDF announced tomorrow that they were withdrawing from Gaza and stopping any further military action presumably you'd be happy about that. Using your logic you shouldn't be because it doesn't affect you.

Because they care about women's rights and about the women in their lives who will be positively impacted by this? Because women will no longer be intimately searched by men? If I heard about poverty being reduced in Kenya and I reduced at the news would you find it difficult to understand why I would be doing so despite it making no difference to me whatsoever?

What is that specifically?

Indeed. "I know transphobia when I see it" but has zero examples. Rather like when someone throws it at JK Rowling and when you ask for examples it amounts to her calling a man 'he'.

Basically they can exclude men for employment reasons without being worried about getting sued or anything like that.

What issues in particular?

As I said. Must have some personal experience of it all.

I've literally never said that in my life. The only thing I ever said is that I could potentially support the death penalty for cases like Southport. Overall I believe that prison should include a measure of rehabilitation and particularly female prisons that are generally very different from male ones. So I'm not the caricature you've made up in your head at all. Out of interest, what is transphobic in your mind?

It's not complex at all as the high court has now made clear. Sex is binary and you can't change it, I'm glad you agree. Transphobia is a nonsense made up word. Men who want to put on a dress and call themselves women because it makes them more comfortable should be allowed to do so free from fear, discrimination or harassment. Many choose to do that which is their right. They should be afforded the same rights as everyone else in society and of course their rights are just as important as everyone else's we are lucky to live in a society that largely respects that. Shame on you for getting all emotional about this judgement and allowing yourself to start getting abusive and nonsensical.

Amen to that. Apparently his son doesn't talk to him anymore which is entirely unsurprising.

Transphobic lol. This must have really hit you hard given how you're resorting to such abusive language. You didn't trans your kid did you? Just be thankful for the women who will no longer have their privacy, dignity and freedom of association taken away. They are the ones who matter, not you and your little tantrum.

So just a load of their mates all together fermenting their extremism. Genius. Get them sharing a bunk with a flagrantly gay jacked bloke and see how long they last.

You can't use the ladies loos even if you really want to. Sorry for your loss.