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Women are a minority view so should be disregarded

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Mollygo Wed 20-May-26 18:10:02

Did Andy Burnham actually say TW should be able to use female toilets?
Yes, Andy Burnham stated that biological men who identify as women should be able to use female toilets.

He dismissed the idea that single-sex spaces should be protected solely for biological women as a "small minority view".

He argued that the number of people falsely portraying their gender to encroach on women's safety is a "tiny, tiny number".

He evidently feels he knows when women feel safe.
He evidently feels he can tell the difference between TW who mean harm and those who don’t.

He doesn’t seem to realise that any man claiming to be a woman is falsely portraying their gender and using that claim to enter female spaces can affect women’s safety.

Therefore it seems women are unimportant in his view.

ViceVersa Wed 20-May-26 18:10:58

Yet another man who thinks he should tell women how they should feel...

SORES Wed 20-May-26 18:14:10

Andy Burnham being a man with a wife and two daughters !!

AGAA4 Wed 20-May-26 18:19:38

'a tiny tiny number' that's ok then for even one woman to be raped?

Maremia Wed 20-May-26 18:21:16

Ooooooooooooooooo

Galaxy Wed 20-May-26 18:25:41

Is that recent? Often the feminist side (my sidesmile) re circulate these things. If it is recent, just from a political standpoint alone the man is a fool.

Doodledog Wed 20-May-26 18:31:04

No, I think it's from a while ago - before the ruling about sex being biological. It's been going the rounds on social media (including MN) to stir up bad feeling about him.

I don't agree with the premise, but I don't think he's saying anything like that now.

Galaxy Wed 20-May-26 18:32:27

Yeah but if you talk utter nonsense then of course it will return to haunt him. I have zero sympathy I am afraid.

Galaxy Wed 20-May-26 18:52:47

Oh and I have just seen his response to the Supreme court ruling, they are all so spineless, he is of course not unique in that, but it does get tiresome.

MawsRosie Wed 20-May-26 18:55:49

That’s one high sector of the community lost to his supporters then.
What do they have between their ears?

Mollygo Wed 20-May-26 19:02:08

2022 was where my DS sent the quote from. She she lives in Manchester and was more interested in the fact that it was dismissed as something he said some time ago, rather that refuted as something he no longer believes.

Doodledog Wed 20-May-26 19:04:33

Galaxy

Yeah but if you talk utter nonsense then of course it will return to haunt him. I have zero sympathy I am afraid.

True. I disagree with the stance completely, as you know, and if he's still saying it I will continue to disagree as heartily as ever.

I don't sympathise either, but nor do I see the point in bringing it up now. It makes me think 'here we go again' - let's see what we can dig up to discredit someone from Labour, even when he's fighting a by-election somewhere else.

Very few mainstream politicians came out of the Stonewall years well at all, so he's far from alone there. The stranglehold Stonewall had was pretty much total, and whilst that's not an excuse for capitulating to them, it was very difficult not to, particularly for those in the public eye.

M0nica Wed 20-May-26 19:12:00

But it is very worrying that a charity like Stonewall should get such a stranglehold on government that no one dare oppose them. Who does the government srve the people or pressure groups.