No safety for you, bitches

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March 29, 2026

Cross-party councillors rejected a plea for single-sex spaces across council buildings and services.

The motion, tabled by Conservative and Reform councillors, called on Darlington Borough Council to protect women’s “privacy, dignity and safety”, but was slammed by campaigners for being “anti-trans and discriminatory”.

They’re going with that? Protecting women’s privacy dignity and safety is anti-trans? They don’t realize that the implication is pro-trans [ideology]=attacking women’s privacy dignity and safety? They want to be seen and understood as against women’s privacy dignity and safety?

Councillors were told [that], if approved, the opposition plea would place members of the transgender community at “increased risk of harm”.

So they put women at increased risk of harm.

Why is that the obvious choice? Why is that the default?

Labour and Green Party members vowed to protect the area’s LGBTQ+ community by refusing the motion on Thursday.

Labour and Green Party members vowed to do away with safety and privacy for women.

Labour councillor Libby McCollom, cabinet member for stronger communities, said: “The cruel and harmful narrative pedalled by councillors Dulston and Walker in this motion frames transgender and non-binary people as a danger to women.

Liar. The issue is that making toilets and changing rooms single-sex is a danger to women. The issue is that some males are a danger to women. Whether they are trans or not is not the issue.

Comments

4 responses to “No safety for you, bitches”

Alison

Mar 30, 2026 12:04 PM

“Pedalled”?? BBC standards really are dropping, aren’t they.

I do like the new look.
Mostly Cloudy

Mar 30, 2026 2:20 PM

I’ve said it before: if the trans community had advocated for “third spaces” along with male spaces and female spaces, that would be a reasonable request. But no, the majority of trans-identified men and their supporters not only demand full access to women’s spaces.

They refuse to even *discuss* the issue with actual women, instead vilifying women who disagree.
iknklast

Mar 30, 2026 8:39 PM

They refuse to even *discuss* the issue with actual women

While screaming if they are ‘excluded’ from being not only at the table but in charge of the table when women’s issues are discussed…we MUST hear the trans point of view! But we musn’t hear the female point of view; that wouldn’t do…unless the female is one of those willing to sell out all the other females to be one of the ‘cool kids’.
Mike Haubrich

Mar 31, 2026 2:07 PM

I’ve said it before: if the trans community had advocated for “third spaces” along with male spaces and female spaces, that would be a reasonable request. But no, the majority of trans-identified men and their supporters not only demand full access to women’s spaces.

If they accepted third spaces, they would be admitting that they are not, in fact, women and that is something up with which they will not put.