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She left him speechless!

This morning we look across the pond where they are having the same problems that we are having here, the courts have ruled that we cannot use women facilities!

Labour MP Leaves Former Tory Minister Speechless By Pointing Out Obvious Fact About Trans Ruling

Simon Clarke seemed blindsided by Dawn Butler's observation.

HuffPost UK

By  Kate Nicholson

April 28, 2025

A Labour MP left a former Conservative minister tripping over his words during a clash over trans rights last week.

After the Supreme Court ruling earlier this month that a woman is defined by biology – and not gender – questions have been raised over exactly how that will impact the trans community.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said last week that trans women should not be “permitted to use the women’s facilities” in workplaces or public-facing services like shops and hospitals – and the same applies to trans men.

The watchdog did acknowledge that trans people still need access to public facilities, but is yet to explain how that would work in practice.

Meanwhile, the government has insisted trans women should use the men’s toilets, and trans men use the women’s toilets.

In there hatred of us they don't even think things through, it is just knee jerk reaction. Most of them are just parroting their party's talking points.

But, as backbencher Dawn Butler pointed out on Sky News last week, this decision does not exactly help boost women’s safety, despite the government’s promises.

She said: “Trans women, in my opinion, should of course, continue to use women’s bathrooms.”

In the video below you can see former chief secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke gears start to slip and not engage; I... I... I... Does not compute! I... I... I... Does not compute! Buzz, buzz, buzz, zzzz, buzzz! Does not compute! I... I... I...

“I do not police people in public toilets,” Butler said. “I think that’s where we are getting to as a society, in policing what a woman looks like.

Bingo!

What does a woman look like? We know that butch lesbians are going to be challenged! You know women who look masculine are going to be challenged! Meanwhile, trans women who can assimilate into society will be able to use the women's bathrooms with no problems.

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For those of us who transitioned decades ago, it is a whole new world.

‘Rights can be knocked out in a second’: older trans people shocked by supreme court ruling

Women who transitioned decades ago feel their safety and security has suddenly been removed

The Guardian

Libby Brooks

27 Apr 2025

“The fear is back. The fear I had when I first started my transition in 1979, that people will hurt me,” says Janey, who is 70. She has been living “happily and independently” as a woman for nearly half a century. Based in London, she still works in the mental health sector and is part of a large and accepting Irish family. She is also transgender.

“I still go into the women’s toilets at work, but when I open the door there’s that little voice inside me: ‘Will someone shout at me?’,” she says.

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It’s the fragility of rights that scares her. “Just look at what is happening in the US – what worries me in this country is that it’s all about trans people now, but this is the start of something. Rights can be knocked out in a second.”

What scares me is the hate against us is spreading around the world, wherever there is a fascist government there is a pogrom against us!

The campaign for gender recognition was spearheaded by the group Press for Change, co-founded in 1992 by the acclaimed advocate Stephen Whittle, who says it taught trans people that “we didn’t have to take it lying down”.

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But by the mid-2010s, he sensed “the world had grown up”. “I was not monstered all the time. I was accepted as a good colleague, a good teacher, a good lawyer. But since then there has been this decline, and it has been vicious. There will be some who will retreat. There will be some people who will be galvanised.”

Stephen Whittle is one of the trans rights leaders in Britain.

“It is realistic to be worried, but we’ve always been very aware of our rights in law. I’m hugely impressed with the younger generation: I’d say to them: don’t be scared, just be prepared to fight for your lives.”

There is a Latin phrase that I remember at times like this it say… "Ne permittas bastardus te deprimere"

“Don’t let the bastards get you down!"