After complaints

He shouldn’t have been there in the first place.

A trans woman was forcibly removed from a female-only nudist lido by police after refusing to leave.

They were ejected from the “Paradiesli” nude section of the Marzili lido in Bern on Sunday after complaints from other swimmers that they did not appear biologically female.

After two female swimmers said they felt harassed by the presence of the bather, some visitors began challenging the trans woman’s presence at the popular swimming spot and asking them to leave.

He, he, him. A man doesn’t become plural when he claims to be a woman. Using a plural pronoun just makes the reporting unclear and confusing.

When police arrived, the bather was pushed to the ground with “rough physical force”, handcuffed and taken away, supporters said.

Could that possibly be because he resisted arrest or refused to leave? I don’t know, but I’m guessing the police didn’t push him to the ground just for the hell of it.

The swimmer was held at a police station for about two hours, while a crowd of supporters rallied outside in a city square, Swiss Info reported.

The trans woman then spent the night in a hospital, with sources close to them calling the police operation “disproportionate” and resulting in bruises on their body.

The force said the bather actively resisted officers and refused after repeated requests to leave the female-only area.

Well there you go. If naked guy doesn’t want to get pushed to the ground, naked guy should leave when the cops tell him to leave.

Bern has now apologised and criticised the police after pointing out that the person concerned met access requirements under Switzerland’s self-identification rules.

The city said in a statement that the decision to remove the trans bather “turned out to be wrong in hindsight”.

It said the bathing company “mistakenly opted for a police-ordered removal of the trans woman. The tense atmosphere led to this misjudgment of the situation.”

The city said it “expressly regrets this decision and apologises to the woman affected… All individuals who identify as women and live as such have access to the voluntary nudist area.”

So for the billionth time the bro wins and women lose. Thanks, city of Bern.

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2 responses to “After complaints”

  1. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    For the billionth time, we dudes cannot live as women, no matter how we identify. Sure, we can dress up in women’s clothes, we can snip off bits here and add bits there to try to look like a crude simulacrum of a woman, we can be ogled and harassed and fondled in public, but all of that is playacting. We are not women, we’ll never be women, we’ll never really know what it’s like to be a woman and put up with all the shit women put up with, and so we should recognize that there are places where we’re not welcome, and stay out.

    And yet we live in a time when saying that gets you labeled as the most horrible bigot.

  2. Omar Avatar

    A trans woman was forcibly removed from a female-only nudist lido by police after refusing to leave.

    It was ejected from the “Paradiesli” nude section of the Marzili lido in Bern on Sunday after complaints from other swimmers that it did not appear biologically female.

    After two female swimmers said they felt harassed by the presence of the bather, some visitors began challenging the trans woman’s presence at the popular swimming spot and asking it to leave.

    NB: Works OK for me.

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