It angers me that this is even in question, a woman gives birth to children, have menstrual cycles, the menopause, why is this in question!! I was raised by my mum who had immense strength, she had many health issues and she died this may. I am a gay man and know what a woman is, I learnt from the best, my mum, I saw her grace and courage as a strong woman who overcame domestic violence to raise three well balanced children. If a man decides to live as a woman that's fine, but accept that you will never be a woman, in my opinion, women are born, not man-made!!!
To have the next generation we need two sexes. A Male and Female. The other genders can’t create a baby. X-ray a person and their skeleton will tell you they are only two sexes. How someone believes they feel doesn’t change their physical skeleton.
It’s because there is a bio tech medical complex industry that seeks to make billions off artificial wombs and trans humanism dreams and controlling the reproductive freedoms of its people. Jennifer Bilek writes extensively that the gender identity LbGT lobby is part of a much broader agenda for us to break biological norms and the power of natural birth to get humans and tech to merge. Look it up, it’s a terrifying way of indoctrination and tech control.
Once a state tried to streamline the mathematical Pi sign into meaning the full number 3 in the USA - if you change the meaning of a word, away from what it was was used for usually, you are butchering language into some dystopian 1984 version of double-talk (meaning nothing in the end)
Every single word there is narrowly defined. Female is a biological classification that no man can ever attain. The idea of a legal gender certificate that transitions you from one sex to the other infuriates me. Only biological females should ever be considered women in the eyes of the law or medical community.
All the hell men have gone through throughout history (war, suicide, coal mines, death at work from dangerous jobs 99% and destroyed by divorce) and we actually know what women are
THAT is not the problem. They can't say what a woman is, because then they would realize/have to admit that they can't make a man BECOME a woman. Or vice versa. The problem is the whole transgender ideology.
For the sake of men, too. It's scary how easy it is to knock us back to the "good" old days and tell us to shut up if we dare speak against it. Even when he claims womanhood, a man still has all the social power of a man. The biggest gaslight was convincing women we would ever be equal. No matter how the coin flips, they can opt out of a struggle. We failed to realise it hasn't been close to a century since having choices was an option. 😢
Grow up? You think because you used an effective child’s analogy, that it’s all done? I’m a woman…..there are men out there that say they are too, and they aren’t. I’ll “grow up” when they STOP talking nonsense.
Although it's better than to have the bits still attached & traumatizing women with them. I think the 5% of trans women who have had the operation should be allowed in women's spaces including prisons because they are far less of a threat.
@@jensphiliphohmann1876 Uh no lmfao. Clearly you skipped the first lesson of sex ed. I am NOT a man AND a woman just because "BUT BUT THEYRE THE SAME THING!" It's obvious what body I have. Mutilating it won't make me more or less of a female.
So the woman who is the Equalities Minister puts Trans rights above Women’s rights?? What an absolute disgrace! Women’s rights have been going downhill very quickly. Looks like there’ll be some bra burning again! 😂 Thank you Helen Joyce for being my favourite Heretic ❤
@@JohnLovett-sg2ce I agree with you there. There’s new words being made up every day. I learned a new one, instead of saying white people theyve changed it to the “global majority.” It was also on the Heretics channel. I couldn’t believe it! I also don’t now if that’s true but it’s being used.
@@Ladylibidex good point. The CEI are blackmailing businesses to comply and it almost killed Bud Light completely. John Deere have gone in full woke, even hosting a pride parade for 3 year olds! 3 year olds can’t decide what toy they want with their happy meal but to indoctrinate 3 yr olds is incredibly stupid, unnecessary and harmful. They don’t need adult sexual themes forced upon them.
A woman is never defined by her context. I cannot think of a more misogynist definition of 'woman' than one which claims women have no substantial reality in and of themselves. The appointment of Ms Dodds to a ministry responsible for women's rights is deeply troubling. Clearly Kier Starmer's first Big Mistake.
Agreed. We have the same problem in Canada with Trudeau and our 'Minister of Women' (laughable), Marcie Ian, a supposed journalist. Aparrently, facts are not something she heeds...💔🇨🇦💔
I am a 67 year old woman and proud i am not a thing or they or it i am a mother of three children and went through puberty,periods,pregnancies,childbirth, finally menopause, how dare anyone tell me anything different
Not to belittle the importance, but you don't have to experience those things to be a woman. A girl who survives to adulthood is a woman. She doesn't have to menstruate or give birth. It is a state of being
Helen Joyce - thank you for fighting this important battle. My main concern is for the children who, if they're struggling with their growing up and are confused, are steered down the path of questioning their own "gender" by ideologically possessed adults, doing them immense harm. I'm a grandfather who's very worried about what my grandchildren are being taught in school.
Indeed. Not every school has this policy of not informing the parents if their child is 'questioning', but I wonder if those that do keep parents in the dark realise the psychological damage they could be causing by enabling the child to live a double life? It's one thing if the parents are ogres and the school has genuine safeguarding concerns, but what if they aren't? By its actions the school is encouraging the child to lie to its parents, and that cannot be psychologically healthy for the child. Lies and guilt are awful burdens for young teenagers to carry around. I read an article some time ago by a mother whose child became confused about its gender, and was encouraged by a school whose policy was to not inform parents. As the mother pointed out, schools excluding or overriding parents are only supportive until the child is 16 or 18. They leave school and what happens to them then ? The school just moves on but the child and its parents are left with whatever mess has been caused by the education policy.
Even 50 years ago ,if you made these mad comments ie awoman can haveca oenis,you would be popped into an asylum!! This continues partly because it makes huge money for those pushing it...
What a dreadful appointment, in her first sentence she questions what the definition of "adult" and "female". For goodness sake both adult and female have very clear definitions, with no doubt of what they mean!
This fiction has to be challenged every time. The transgender lobby want to give the impression that it's all settled and that there's no argument any more. So it must be challenged and good on J K Rowling for doing just that.
It's not just women's privacy, dignity and safety that Labour appears to be a bit laissez-faire about - it's also the safeguarding of children. Putting the teaching of this stuff to one side, what does Labour expect the father of a young daughter to do if, when he takes her for her weekly swimming lesson, he notices that she's followed into the changing room by someone who is quite obviously a man dressed as a woman? While the overwhelming majority of men are not predators, some are and if they think they can get away with posing as women in order to access women and children, they are going to do so. In this case what is a responsible father to do, because I don't know a single man of my acquaintance who would accept this potential threat to their child - and nor should they.
Really good point. As Helen J said, what sort of man will take advantage of free access to women's changing rooms? Not the decent ones, for sure. I'd like to ask some of these tr*ns activists how they'd feel if their own daughters, or maybe sisters or nieces, children in general are getting changed for a swimming lesson... really, you're comfortable for them to be confronted by a naked adult male who is possibly staring at them, possibly even in a visible state of excitement...? Who in their right mind is okay with that??
I like Helen Joyce, but she really annoys me when she constantly brings race into this argument. Race has absolute nothing to do with trans. Fortunately there are not too many Rachel Dolizal’s around.
Because the number of women with gender dysphoria is much lower, and of those who try to live as men, they don't try to take over men's positions. For the most part transgender male to female activists are misogynistic people who use the system to benefit themselves at the expense of actual women, while people who actually suffer gender dysphoria just want to live their lives, not take away the rights of others.
But 3 grammatical genders in European languages: he/she/it - it is terrible that you have to have a castration now, just for the opportunity to swap "gender-roles" that got defined in the last millenium. "Human Rights" includes the part of being granted "no bodily harm"! If single sex spaces can't be provided for all allowed variations (dress clashing with the pluming) give "those in need" at least single spaces for their privacy in times of vulnerablity. Men invading on women happened all the time, but now the "blokes" feel in the right to do so and women, who want that to stop, are the ones who get told off. The more rights get taken away from women by this policy, the less interested in "becoming" a woman those weirdoes might become BUT young girls now feel forced to go "male" if they hope to retain any rights at all: me too, but my definition of "man" is the short form for MANKIND = HUMAN Gender roles are a dated convention that should be dissassociated from sex!
The boys who want to change are not mature enough to be called ADULT, because they seem to believe: Y-chromosome = male (sometimes) and X-chromosome = female (always), so because EVERY human has to have at least ONE X-chromosome, everyone can declare himself female (it's mommys fault, anyway). The toilets need the question "Y do you want to enter here???" for "Y not" and the male places rated as "X-tremely Y"
The British can blame the USA for initiating this nonsense. What puzzles me is why would the Brits adopt this into their society. It's as if the USA is the mother country and the UK was the colony.
Parts of the USA. It’s the radical states like California and many of the red states like where I am at is completely against this and fighting to block federal changes that have been pushed down from the LGBT lobby. We are not all crazy. Some of us care deeply about stopping this madness.
Just appalling to think that Anne-Lise Doddery got on to Woman's Hour, and they won't let Helen Joyce within 500 metres of the building. When Emma Barnett 'interviewed' Maya Forstater about her legal fight to be able to say that a woman is an adult human female - she was sacked from her job for saying this - Barnett hardly let her speak and was so hostile and aggressive towards her that I thought she was going to accuse Maya Forstater of some serious crime! It was astonishing to listen to!
Most women vote for this and support it through social movement agendas. I don't feel any sympathy, I'm just going to take advantage and try to get my DEI advantages
@@cavaleirosemlicenca3894 It's true a lot of 'libfems' support this nonsense, which women's rights campaigners regard as a betrayal and a disgrace. We call them 'handmaidens'.
Helen Joyce clear and concise, a lovely sharp cookie, and JK Rowling a heroine for women’s rights. Labour, you are on the rack with this, do the correct sensible thing.
My dad and my mum passed away in 1997 and 1999 respectively. In such a short time they would be flabbergasted at just how barmy this world has become. We really are heading in a direction that frightens me. I fear for my grand kids...I'm glad I'm 64 next. If this was 60 years ago these people would be in a lunatic asylum.I mean that. We have gone to hell in a handcart.
I find it strange that people use the term 'biological' as though the term female could apply to machinery and it needs to be clarified we are talking about physiology.
😂🤣😂 well said 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. Female denotes the sex of the species that produces eggs. I suppose certain locks and screws are the only inanimate objects which have male and female parts. But they are named according to the mating actions of biological sex.
My 3 year old daughter's answer: "a woman is what mommy is and what I'll grow up to be". WOW!! I love this insane world where my 3 year old is smarter than woke people. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Because the politicians seem to believe that showing that they care for even the smallest minority implies that they care about the rest, and thus you (part of the rest) will support them without question, no matter how insane and illogical their platforms are.
Imagine travelling back in time to 1969 just after we put a man on the moon to give the people a quick update on what's happening in the far off future of 2024. Being asked about what other planets we might have explored by then, flying cars, robots and all manner of technical and scientific marvels yet to be believed. Then having to explain to them that "actually, we're still debating what a woman is....".
This is not just a female-only issue as the media constantly presents it. There should be single-sex spaces for males, too, but no-one ever seems to say anything on this issue on behalf of men and boys.
Because it is MEN forcing their way into WOMEN’S spaces - female prisons, female hospital wards, toilets, rape crisis centres etc etc. And annihilating women’s sports. Not the other way round.
Love Helen Joyce, love JK Rowling. Have lost friends lately because i have said i don't believe in gender identity. I said that i support the rights of people who identify as trans to transition and live their lives, but that's never enough. They want full compliance to gender madness or you're a bigot. But women's sex segregated spaces is a hill I'll gladly die on.
Wanting to choose their own labels, and labels for us too.. getting cross if they can't be called a woman, but want us to be a CIS woman... CIS is made up and meaningless.. it's just 'woman'.. see, even trans people can be misogynistic.
So am I ! The whole point of creating additional categories is to provide a social identity for minorities who are being overlooked and discriminated. What’s the point of creating a category for a group that represents the well-known and I discriminated majority?
I don't understand why no one is asserting that every organ and hormone in the human body corresponds with their sex, ie the secondary sex organs. It is NOT an obsession or fixation with 'what is in a person's pants'. This response sidesteps the point of relevance by trying to make those who disagree look morally inferior.
Man is just the short version of human, so they are irked, that women are included in their cathegory but that it does not work the other way round for male born humans!
The clue is in the title! Woman singular, women pleural, but the title implies multiple versions of women. I get so peeved with all this since there is no variation. A woman is a biological adult female of the human race and that's it.
Using intersex as a justification for the trans situation is the honestly worse than having the mind of a 3 year old. Surely some people having 11 fingers doesn't destroy the fact/norm of "humans have 10 fingers", or does it?
What is concerning is John, who dresses as Jane, wants to keep the beard and body hair and thinks its ok to enter womens spaces. Have they got gender neutral toilets and changing rooms in Westminster?
A man can never be woman and visa versa.Its basic science. A MAN CAN MAKE AN IMAGE OF A WOMAN AND ACT LIKE ONE .but that's all hel ever be just a poor image ..
Trevor Barmett ..agree a man can never be a biological women they can be an image of one as you state But stating he will be a poor image is untrue there are many trans and TV who are a better image of women and more feminine than women and better dressed than women ..There are a lot of biological women who are more masculine than men ..😂😂😂😂
@@juicylouisey I believe you missed the point. If any man can claim womanhood because they have a mental illness, does that not make womanhood a mental illness, in their own words? It’s disrespectful, ridiculous, and down right insulting.
I have read that Keir will legistate to allow mens who identify as womens but with intact 'tackle' will be allowed in womens spaces. The world has gone f'ing mad.
He should be stood down if he does that. He has all these women covering for him in govt who will take the blame when things go wrong. I suspect he is a long time misogynist Delia Morris
Why is it predominantly a question about women? Why are these people having such a hard time defining what a woman is? Is there the same confusion over men? Why is it always "transwomen are women" and we rarely hear "transmen are men?" I mean, I kind of know the answer to that. In my opinion it's really just men being men and bullying women. Are transmen being put into MEN'S prison? They better be if transwomen are in women's prison. Think about that for a minute.
Because it's men who started this "debate". They know what they are but want more and in this case, more comes at the expense of women. Notice that this happens at the same time women lost their right to abortion in the US. I doubt it's a coincidence.
The claim that we can't define females or males due to a lack of universal traits or a single biological sex trait is flawed. While not all individuals within a sex category may exhibit every characteristic, there are indeed defining features exclusive to each sex. The biological potential for childbearing is what defines the female sex, regardless of individual fertility. It's about the inherent capacity tied to female biology, not whether every female can or will give birth. This fundamental difference in reproductive roles is what primarily distinguishes females from males at a biological level.
@@michelledavis2604 “Nope?” Let us know we you see an infant being gestated and birth by way of the male penis , then world will agree there is no defining sex characteristics that separates males from females.
@@JohnSmith-ux3tt While I share your frustration, and agree that wokism is a cult, I think it's a mistake to call it "Leftist" - a common mistake, endorsed by many media outlets, and very much in the interests of woke activists, who thrive on misunderstanding and confusion. The truth is that wokism is highly elitist, profoundly undemocratic, and cruelly indifferent to the needs and opinions of the vast majority of ordinary people - does that really sound left-wing to you?
@@Lloyd.BrowneReality and common sense. We ALL knew what a woman was for millions of years. But then, 5 years ago, the insane Left decided to just change the definition to, no definition at all. And they expect us logical thinkers to just go along with their cultish delusions. You are dreaming.
I find it depressing that it wasn't long ago that nobody had a problem defining what a women is, now all of the sudden everyone is pretending like they don't know. Its such a brainwash.
It angers me that this is even in question, a woman gives birth to children, have menstrual cycles, the menopause, why is this in question!! I was raised by my mum who had immense strength, she had many health issues and she died this may. I am a gay man and know what a woman is, I learnt from the best, my mum, I saw her grace and courage as a strong woman who overcame domestic violence to raise three well balanced children. If a man decides to live as a woman that's fine, but accept that you will never be a woman, in my opinion, women are born, not man-made!!!
Very well put. Women are born, not man-made. Thank you. I am very sorry for your loss. Your mum raised a good man. 👍
To have the next generation we need two sexes. A Male and Female. The other genders can’t create a baby. X-ray a person and their skeleton will tell you they are only two sexes. How someone believes they feel doesn’t change their physical skeleton.
Very nicely put.❤
It’s because there is a bio tech medical complex industry that seeks to make billions off artificial wombs and trans humanism dreams and controlling the reproductive freedoms of its people. Jennifer Bilek writes extensively that the gender identity LbGT lobby is part of a much broader agenda for us to break biological norms and the power of natural birth to get humans and tech to merge. Look it up, it’s a terrifying way of indoctrination and tech control.
Excellent comment very well put, it's not all about hair and make up! Women are born not man made brilliant, think I'll get a tee shirt with that on!
No piece of legislation can magically transform a person from one sex to the other. Impossible.
Please tell me that Santa and The Easter Bunny are real!
@@lordElpus10 Oh but yes, of course! They are real!!
And they both are sexless male too!
Once a state tried to streamline the mathematical Pi sign into meaning the full number 3 in the USA - if you change the meaning of a word, away from what it was was used for usually, you are butchering language into some dystopian 1984 version of double-talk (meaning nothing in the end)
@@lordElpus10and the tooth fairy 😂
Woman. Adult, human, female. End of story.
Unfortunately it was just the beginning,these kuntz are scared of reality!
Every single word there is narrowly defined. Female is a biological classification that no man can ever attain. The idea of a legal gender certificate that transitions you from one sex to the other infuriates me. Only biological females should ever be considered women in the eyes of the law or medical community.
Woman: Human female, any age.
Why so serious? 🤡
Xx chromosomes
All the hell women have gone through over the decades, and these politicians can’t say what we are. It’s so insulting.
All the hell men have gone through throughout history (war, suicide, coal mines, death at work from dangerous jobs 99% and destroyed by divorce) and we actually know what women are
THAT is not the problem. They can't say what a woman is, because then they would realize/have to admit that they can't make a man BECOME a woman. Or vice versa. The problem is the whole transgender ideology.
For the sake of men, too. It's scary how easy it is to knock us back to the "good" old days and tell us to shut up if we dare speak against it. Even when he claims womanhood, a man still has all the social power of a man. The biggest gaslight was convincing women we would ever be equal. No matter how the coin flips, they can opt out of a struggle. We failed to realise it hasn't been close to a century since having choices was an option. 😢
What have women gone throught that men didn't? Nothing.
Women support feminism... the ones exactly pushing the question.
Maybe we should flip the question to 'what is a man' ?
J. K. Rowling just earned a new fan.
What took you so long?😉
Always been a fan.
Ditto + had NO idea how funny she is, nor how deeply entrenched life-threatening violence against feminists is online, terfisaslur.
The more the better.
And me.
For goodness sake put this bloody stupid question to bed. Inside plumbing = a woman , outside plumbing = a man. Grow up all of you.
Although we're in agreement on this issue, imploring people to grow up after using the inside/outside plumbing metaphor is a bit rich.
Haha. Excellent analogy…spot on
Grow up? You think because you used an effective child’s analogy, that it’s all done? I’m a woman…..there are men out there that say they are too, and they aren’t. I’ll “grow up” when they STOP talking nonsense.
It's an infinite spectrum.
Tell the Leftists -they are the only ones who can't answer the question.
Helen Joyce is a heroine of this generation.
Just a reminder. A man having his part cut off doesn't become a woman, he becomes an eunuch.
Although it's better than to have the bits still attached & traumatizing women with them. I think the 5% of trans women who have had the operation should be allowed in women's spaces including prisons because they are far less of a threat.
Women actually have the same organs as men, just built in a very different way.
@@jensphiliphohmann1876
So men have overies, a uterus and a vagina? Those are organs too.
@@jensphiliphohmann1876where is the man’s uterus ?
@@jensphiliphohmann1876 Uh no lmfao. Clearly you skipped the first lesson of sex ed. I am NOT a man AND a woman just because "BUT BUT THEYRE THE SAME THING!" It's obvious what body I have. Mutilating it won't make me more or less of a female.
My new favourite comment: if I had £1 for every gender, I'd have £2 with a bunch of counterfeit.
Priceless! 😂
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My new favourite comment: a man without his pillar and boulders is not a woman but a eunuch!
That made me laugh. I’m nicking that one, if you don’t mind 😆😆
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JK Rowling is not anti trans, she is pro women, big difference.
Spot on.
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a n t i t r a n s just means pro sanity
So the woman who is the Equalities Minister puts Trans rights above Women’s rights??
What an absolute disgrace! Women’s rights have been going downhill very quickly. Looks like there’ll be some bra burning again! 😂
Thank you Helen Joyce for being my favourite Heretic ❤
Because this a billion dollar industry.
In a while there will be another fiction, count on it . Once you reject truth there is no end to it..
@@JohnLovett-sg2ce I agree with you there. There’s new words being made up every day. I learned a new one, instead of saying white people theyve changed it to the “global majority.” It was also on the Heretics channel. I couldn’t believe it! I also don’t now if that’s true but it’s being used.
@@Ladylibidex good point. The CEI are blackmailing businesses to comply and it almost killed Bud Light completely. John Deere have gone in full woke, even hosting a pride parade for 3 year olds! 3 year olds can’t decide what toy they want with their happy meal but to indoctrinate 3 yr olds is incredibly stupid, unnecessary and harmful. They don’t need adult sexual themes forced upon them.
You can’t be serious UA-cam! Where are my replies?
Jk Rowling tells the truth ❤
She's not in touch with reality
@@michelledavis2604Most agree she does.
@@michelledavis2604 she knows men can’t become women lol you’re the one not in touch with reality . Sex is binary and immutable
JK Rowling is in touch with reality and broadcasting it to the rest of the world.
@@michelledavis2604please. We all know the Harry Potter books are fiction. I suspect she has a life, and beliefs outside her role as an author.
A woman is never defined by her context. I cannot think of a more misogynist definition of 'woman' than one which claims women have no substantial reality in and of themselves. The appointment of Ms Dodds to a ministry responsible for women's rights is deeply troubling. Clearly Kier Starmer's first Big Mistake.
Agreed. We have the same problem in Canada with Trudeau and our 'Minister of Women' (laughable), Marcie Ian, a supposed journalist. Aparrently, facts are not something she heeds...💔🇨🇦💔
We fought for women's rights and the right to vote. Now we are fighting to just be a woman. Born women, not a man's fantasy.
Exactly. And women should not cower to this nonsense. Those creatures who insist that they are woman are imposters. Nothing more.
And you still don't realize women supporting occultfemism caused this...
I am a 67 year old woman and proud i am not a thing or they or it i am a mother of three children and went through puberty,periods,pregnancies,childbirth, finally menopause, how dare anyone tell me anything different
Not to belittle the importance, but you don't have to experience those things to be a woman. A girl who survives to adulthood is a woman. She doesn't have to menstruate or give birth. It is a state of being
Helen Joyce - thank you for fighting this important battle. My main concern is for the children who, if they're struggling with their growing up and are confused, are steered down the path of questioning their own "gender" by ideologically possessed adults, doing them immense harm. I'm a grandfather who's very worried about what my grandchildren are being taught in school.
Indeed. Not every school has this policy of not informing the parents if their child is 'questioning', but I wonder if those that do keep parents in the dark realise the psychological damage they could be causing by enabling the child to live a double life? It's one thing if the parents are ogres and the school has genuine safeguarding concerns, but what if they aren't? By its actions the school is encouraging the child to lie to its parents, and that cannot be psychologically healthy for the child. Lies and guilt are awful burdens for young teenagers to carry around.
I read an article some time ago by a mother whose child became confused about its gender, and was encouraged by a school whose policy was to not inform parents. As the mother pointed out, schools excluding or overriding parents are only supportive until the child is 16 or 18. They leave school and what happens to them then ? The school just moves on but the child and its parents are left with whatever mess has been caused by the education policy.
You should listen to your child. If they're confused they're not trans. If they're trans, they know and they knew it always.
@@RudyDePaepeYes. Some kids at a very early age know they are a transformer.
@@RudyDePaepeDo you forget everything you once knew about kids, or did you not know anything about kids ever?
Even 50 years ago ,if you made these mad comments ie awoman can haveca oenis,you would be popped into an asylum!!
This continues partly because it makes huge money for those pushing it...
I notice they are not questioning what a man is
hmmmm.....interesting.
Men are not threatened by crazy women encroaching their spaces.
If it's got a Sausage and two Veg, it's not a Woman.
I love your comment!
So men are an IT?
If it gets them removed it's still not a woman.
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If it previously had a sausage and two veg its also not a woman.
If nobody can say what a woman is, how can somebody feel like they are one?
What a dreadful appointment, in her first sentence she questions what the definition of "adult" and "female". For goodness sake both adult and female have very clear definitions, with no doubt of what they mean!
You’d think they would get a person in that position that really knows what a woman is and makes sure women are protected.
They aren’t on women’s side.
It should be very worrying that she doesn't seem to think there's a definition for adult
Labour women do not care about women, only Tory women have ever spoken out so now I am a Tory. Delia Morris
I'm 58 but IDENTIFY as 26.
This fiction has to be challenged every time. The transgender lobby want to give the impression that it's all settled and that there's no argument any more. So it must be challenged and good on J K Rowling for doing just that.
It's not just women's privacy, dignity and safety that Labour appears to be a bit laissez-faire about - it's also the safeguarding of children. Putting the teaching of this stuff to one side, what does Labour expect the father of a young daughter to do if, when he takes her for her weekly swimming lesson, he notices that she's followed into the changing room by someone who is quite obviously a man dressed as a woman? While the overwhelming majority of men are not predators, some are and if they think they can get away with posing as women in order to access women and children, they are going to do so. In this case what is a responsible father to do, because I don't know a single man of my acquaintance who would accept this potential threat to their child - and nor should they.
Really good point. As Helen J said, what sort of man will take advantage of free access to women's changing rooms? Not the decent ones, for sure. I'd like to ask some of these tr*ns activists how they'd feel if their own daughters, or maybe sisters or nieces, children in general are getting changed for a swimming lesson... really, you're comfortable for them to be confronted by a naked adult male who is possibly staring at them, possibly even in a visible state of excitement...? Who in their right mind is okay with that??
I love Jk Rowling but I love even more Helen Joyce who is a very brave and important woman to fight for us all !
I like Helen Joyce, but she really annoys me when she constantly brings race into this argument.
Race has absolute nothing to do with trans. Fortunately there are not too many Rachel Dolizal’s around.
Why does no one ever ask "What is a man?"????
Because the number of women with gender dysphoria is much lower, and of those who try to live as men, they don't try to take over men's positions.
For the most part transgender male to female activists are misogynistic people who use the system to benefit themselves at the expense of actual women, while people who actually suffer gender dysphoria just want to live their lives, not take away the rights of others.
Only 2 sexes 😊just laugh at anything else they say 😊
Poor thinking for you.
@@michelledavis2604Nope. 😅
@@michelledavis2604Are you one of those “sex is a spectrum” people or something?
@@michelledavis2604 poor thinking for you if you think a woman has a penis 😂
But 3 grammatical genders in European languages: he/she/it - it is terrible that you have to have a castration now, just for the opportunity to swap "gender-roles" that got defined in the last millenium. "Human Rights" includes the part of being granted "no bodily harm"! If single sex spaces can't be provided for all allowed variations (dress clashing with the pluming) give "those in need" at least single spaces for their privacy in times of vulnerablity.
Men invading on women happened all the time, but now the "blokes" feel in the right to do so and women, who want that to stop, are the ones who get told off.
The more rights get taken away from women by this policy, the less interested in "becoming" a woman those weirdoes might become BUT young girls now feel forced to go "male" if they hope to retain any rights at all: me too, but my definition of "man" is the short form for MANKIND = HUMAN
Gender roles are a dated convention that should be dissassociated from sex!
If the minister cannot identify a women with her portfolio I'm so sorry for females in the UK
So, the equalities act says 'adult and female'? Stop right there. No need to go any further.
The boys who want to change are not mature enough to be called ADULT, because they seem to believe: Y-chromosome = male (sometimes) and X-chromosome = female (always), so because EVERY human has to have at least ONE X-chromosome, everyone can declare himself female (it's mommys fault, anyway).
The toilets need the question "Y do you want to enter here???" for "Y not" and the male places rated as "X-tremely Y"
Women are born not created
Created in womb
The British can blame the USA for initiating this nonsense. What puzzles me is why would the Brits adopt this into their society. It's as if the USA is the mother country and the UK was the colony.
Both countries have stupid Leftists in charge. That is the source of the idiocy.
The ideology has infiltrated every organisation in almost every country like a virus.
Parts of the USA. It’s the radical states like California and many of the red states like where I am at is completely against this and fighting to block federal changes that have been pushed down from the LGBT lobby. We are not all crazy. Some of us care deeply about stopping this madness.
@@Ladylibidex true but gender ideology started in the US. Not to say all Americans go along with it but same goes for Canadians and British.
Identity politics is from France.
If gender is just a feeling or thought . why go change your body if your sex does not matter.
Let's start asking "what is a man" for a change. When did biology get cancelled?
Y chromosome.
Tavastock child mutilation clinic has a thousand or more law suits against it. I thought child mutilation was against the law in the U K.
Exactly. FGM is illegal in the UK. I suppose it’s ok if they’re mutilating people over the age of 18.
Thanks a million for calling the Tavistock out for what it is, a "child mutilation clinic'.
@@993Redveg It sends shivers down my spine what Tavistock has done to these children
@@lyndonjones2753 Indeed.
Just appalling to think that Anne-Lise Doddery got on to Woman's Hour, and they won't let Helen Joyce within 500 metres of the building. When Emma Barnett 'interviewed' Maya Forstater about her legal fight to be able to say that a woman is an adult human female - she was sacked from her job for saying this - Barnett hardly let her speak and was so hostile and aggressive towards her that I thought she was going to accuse Maya Forstater of some serious crime! It was astonishing to listen to!
Oh I gave up listening to WOMANS hour ages ago…..it’s become a bizarre programme
Most women vote for this and support it through social movement agendas. I don't feel any sympathy, I'm just going to take advantage and try to get my DEI advantages
@@cavaleirosemlicenca3894 It's true a lot of 'libfems' support this nonsense, which women's rights campaigners regard as a betrayal and a disgrace. We call them 'handmaidens'.
Cults have to keep dissenters OUT. Make no mistake this is a cult at the highest levels.
Helen Joyce clear and concise, a lovely sharp cookie, and JK Rowling a heroine for women’s rights. Labour, you are on the rack with this, do the correct sensible thing.
Never answer a straight question.
How can a woman not be able to explain what a wowan is. Mind boggling. 😵💫😵💫😵💫
My dad and my mum passed away in 1997 and 1999 respectively. In such a short time they would be flabbergasted at just how barmy this world has become. We really are heading in a direction that frightens me. I fear for my grand kids...I'm glad I'm 64 next. If this was 60 years ago these people would be in a lunatic asylum.I mean that. We have gone to hell in a handcart.
Sometimes it seems like a large part of the population have gone completely mad,and noone has the guts to shout STOP!!!!
My mother died in 2006 and she would be angry over this, she was a very proud woman and mother of four. Delia Morris
Unfortunately, Thatcher closed the asylums.
It really is crazy isn't it? I think it's swinging back the other way thank God
I find it strange that people use the term 'biological' as though the term female could apply to machinery and it needs to be clarified we are talking about physiology.
Well men are claiming to be female and the law allows them to claim this if they have a speshall piece of paper 😂
😂🤣😂 well said 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾.
Female denotes the sex of the species that produces eggs.
I suppose certain locks and screws are the only inanimate objects which have male and female parts. But they are named according to the mating actions of biological sex.
the way women are treated in this case you might as well be talking about machinery.
If they can get you to deny reality, they can do anything they want without fear of backlash.
It’s a disturbing thought
Im totally sick and tired of this bs.
My 3 year old daughter's answer: "a woman is what mommy is and what I'll grow up to be".
WOW!!
I love this insane world where my 3 year old is smarter than woke people.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Kids just speak the truth 😊
@@soulstarreiki8889 until they are brainwashed.
If you can get into trouble and taken to court for stating you can't change sex,then the judicial system NEEDS psychiatric help.
What exactly are Trans rights as opposed to everyone else’s rights ???
The right to live in a fantasy
Don’t blame me , I voted for Reform .
But stupid people and Muslims voted for Labour.
Me neither. I voted for the British Workers Party. It saddens me after being a lifelong Labour voter.
@@jaijai5250 Their as bad as the 'other' workers party from 1930's and look where they got the world...
same here
Why should a very very small minority dictate to the vast majority it should be the other way round
Because the politicians seem to believe that showing that they care for even the smallest minority implies that they care about the rest, and thus you (part of the rest) will support them without question, no matter how insane and illogical their platforms are.
Imagine travelling back in time to 1969 just after we put a man on the moon to give the people a quick update on what's happening in the far off future of 2024. Being asked about what other planets we might have explored by then, flying cars, robots and all manner of technical and scientific marvels yet to be believed. Then having to explain to them that "actually, we're still debating what a woman is....".
We’ve made great progress in some areas, and have gone backwards in others.
@@chrisbuxton1958and those that want up to go backwards are intent on making all the progress achieved to go backwards
Not "still". For some idiotic reason we are revisiting it
This is not just a female-only issue as the media constantly presents it. There should be single-sex spaces for males, too, but no-one ever seems to say anything on this issue on behalf of men and boys.
Because it is MEN forcing their way into WOMEN’S spaces - female prisons, female hospital wards, toilets, rape crisis centres etc etc. And annihilating women’s sports. Not the other way round.
Wouldn’t mind some ladies in the bathroom 😂
Agreed... but not many , if ANY, "trans men" ie, women, are clamouring to get into mens rest rooms or sports...wonder why
@@janet5846And if they did, the men wouldn't be in danger
It is presented that way because women are so badly affected by it. Men need to speak out to if they are affected by it. Delia Morris
Keep talking Helen never give up never surrender to the mob.
Jk rownling is a amazing women!! Thank god we have her standing up for our rights !!! Love her ❤️
Did those Politicans ever take biology at school. Just incredible
I’m sure they did but then they where indoctrinated by gender ideology, it’s the new religion that you aren’t allowed to question
Of course they know they are lying
God we're a week in and look at the cabinet. 😢
Better than it’s been in 14 years
Both are atrocious.
@@christopherbradley7149no they aren’t - far worse - even less talent
David Lammie!🤨
@@spectre8788Dianne Abbott should run the treasury 😂
Love Helen Joyce, love JK Rowling. Have lost friends lately because i have said i don't believe in gender identity. I said that i support the rights of people who identify as trans to transition and live their lives, but that's never enough. They want full compliance to gender madness or you're a bigot. But women's sex segregated spaces is a hill I'll gladly die on.
Me too, in terms of defence of women's spaces.
I object to people calling us normal women, as cis women! A trans woman is called a trans woman. Normal women are just women!
Wanting to choose their own labels, and labels for us too.. getting cross if they can't be called a woman, but want us to be a CIS woman... CIS is made up and meaningless.. it's just 'woman'.. see, even trans people can be misogynistic.
Trans women are men
So am I ! The whole point of creating additional categories is to provide a social identity for minorities who are being overlooked and discriminated. What’s the point of creating a category for a group that represents the well-known and I discriminated majority?
I don't understand why no one is asserting that every organ and hormone in the human body corresponds with their sex, ie the secondary sex organs. It is NOT an obsession or fixation with 'what is in a person's pants'. This response sidesteps the point of relevance by trying to make those who disagree look morally inferior.
JK Rowling a marvelous champion of womans rights! And sanity!
What are trans rights? Don't they have the same rights as everyone?
Stonewall should be closed down.
Should only be funded as a counselling support service nothing else and funding sharply reduced. Delia Morris
One thing for sure Dodds is not a woman
Dodds doent know what he she is
Unfortunately it appears that she is. As a woman and an Equalities Minister, she could do with sticking up for her own sex rather than wannabee men.
Nice to hear an adult conversation.
Dodds is obviously well behind the curve, like many of her 'ministerial' chums.
An incredulous, patronizing interview with someone who has no expertise in this area
@@connor5669 Helen Joyce is THE expert in this area
@@connor5669Helen Joyce is THE expert in this area
@@connor5669 She has more expertise in being a woman than you do
A woman IS an adult human female. Easy.
Man is just the short version of human, so they are irked, that women are included in their cathegory but that it does not work the other way round for male born humans!
Typically, politicians cannot or will not answer a straightforward question: a woman give birth to a child?"
the truth matters no matter what delusions people have
We all need to find out what is true, then.
@@michelledavis2604 this is true i go with cromosones xx xy
Ignorant. You know sh*t.
The clue is in the title! Woman singular, women pleural, but the title implies multiple versions of women. I get so peeved with all this since there is no variation. A woman is a biological adult female of the human race and that's it.
Gosh, at first I thought it was a mistake!
We are born with either a 'hole' or a 'pole'. Deal with it. Nuff said.
Anti science are you, intersex is what exactly?
Only if you have the mind of a 3 year old.
@@michelledavis2604 don’t denigrate the mind of a three year old with this muppe… the average three year old will grow up to be a fair minded person.
Using intersex as a justification for the trans situation is the honestly worse than having the mind of a 3 year old. Surely some people having 11 fingers doesn't destroy the fact/norm of "humans have 10 fingers", or does it?
@@Lloyd.BrowneTechnically a birth defect that afflicts a very small percentage of people and for most is easily rectified.
I identify as a 65 year old, can I please get my state pension now? Can I please change my date of birth, it must be wrong....
Isn't it an indication someone is psychotic if they believe this?
Isn't there a case for finding someone who believes this unfit for public office?
What is concerning is John, who dresses as Jane, wants to keep the beard and body hair and thinks its ok to enter womens spaces.
Have they got gender neutral toilets and changing rooms in Westminster?
REPEAL the GRA...
A man can never be woman and visa versa.Its basic science. A MAN CAN MAKE AN IMAGE OF A WOMAN AND ACT LIKE ONE .but that's all hel ever be just a poor image ..
I follow the science and you dont
@@michelledavis2604What's a woman?
Trevor Barmett ..agree a man can never be a biological women they can be an image of one as you state But stating he will be a poor image is untrue there are many trans and TV who are a better image of women and more feminine than women and better dressed than women ..There are a lot of biological women who are more masculine than men ..😂😂😂😂
I agree, but how does a woman act. I have daughters, a sister, aunts, friends and my mother died, but we all acted differently.
Adult human female. How anyone can’t get that fact is beyond me.
@@ffrederickskitty214 they do get that fact but they want their ‘15 minutes of fame’
They are just entitled idiots.
Put a donkey in a stable dosnt make it a horse 😂
Some people seem to think that "changing one's sex" is as simple a matter as changing one's name.
Keir Starmer is on this - he's appointed a crack taskforce to go out and find out what a woman is.
If a man wants to pretend he’s a woman, Then that’s up to him. However if he wants us to pretend he’s a woman then that’s up to us
I am NOT a psychological condition.
No, nobody is a psychological condition.
But many people, usually good people can have a psychological condition and not realise it.
@@juicylouisey What is a trans woman then, if being a woman is biological?
@@juicylouisey Define a woman then, please.
@@unitysprings3631 Adult human female.
@@juicylouisey I believe you missed the point. If any man can claim womanhood because they have a mental illness, does that not make womanhood a mental illness, in their own words? It’s disrespectful, ridiculous, and down right insulting.
Helen Joyce's face says it all! She can't believe she's having to say some of these things. Come to that, i cant believe she needs to!
I have read that Keir will legistate to allow mens who identify as womens but with intact 'tackle' will be allowed in womens spaces. The world has gone f'ing mad.
He should be stood down if he does that. He has all these women covering for him in govt who will take the blame when things go wrong. I suspect he is a long time misogynist Delia Morris
A painful listen, we now have a labour government 🤦♀️
Why is it predominantly a question about women? Why are these people having such a hard time defining what a woman is? Is there the same confusion over men? Why is it always "transwomen are women" and we rarely hear "transmen are men?" I mean, I kind of know the answer to that. In my opinion it's really just men being men and bullying women. Are transmen being put into MEN'S prison? They better be if transwomen are in women's prison. Think about that for a minute.
Well done, HJ. So well said. Full marks and more strength to you.
Being a woman is our birth right
So now we have to find out just what an adult is...
Why does nobody ask, " WHAT IS A MAN"?
Because it's men who started this "debate". They know what they are but want more and in this case, more comes at the expense of women. Notice that this happens at the same time women lost their right to abortion in the US. I doubt it's a coincidence.
@@bogdiworksV2 well, I don't agree with abortion at all for any reason, so there I agree with them!
@@bogdiworksV2 (a) Abortion is not a right. (b) Abortion is still legal in the US.
So Blackrock owns Labour ?
The claim that we can't define females or males due to a lack of universal traits or a single biological sex trait is flawed. While not all individuals within a sex category may exhibit every characteristic, there are indeed defining features exclusive to each sex.
The biological potential for childbearing is what defines the female sex, regardless of individual fertility. It's about the inherent capacity tied to female biology, not whether every female can or will give birth. This fundamental difference in reproductive roles is what primarily distinguishes females from males at a biological level.
Nope.
@@michelledavis2604 “Nope?” Let us know we you see an infant being gestated and birth by way of the male penis , then world will agree there is no defining sex characteristics that separates males from females.
@@michelledavis2604Let's hear the Leftist cult's definition of a woman then. Go.
@@mystic22g4the troll Michelle probably calls it a “female penis”.
@@JohnSmith-ux3tt While I share your frustration, and agree that wokism is a cult, I think it's a mistake to call it "Leftist" - a common mistake, endorsed by many media outlets, and very much in the interests of woke activists, who thrive on misunderstanding and confusion. The truth is that wokism is highly elitist, profoundly undemocratic, and cruelly indifferent to the needs and opinions of the vast majority of ordinary people - does that really sound left-wing to you?
When are we going to hear the question "what is a man"?
It’s not as important
Today on on Woman's Hour, we will discuss just what is a woman and can we redefine just what an hour really means within various diverse contexts.
Scary, scary, scary. When did this madness start?!
❤Helen Joyce ❤
How can a male patriot belong to Labour
People would rather believe fiction than truth. Why? Because they’re lazy 🙋🏽♀️
I identify as a millionaire, I don’t expect people to acknowledge that
They are NOT WOMEN.
And your professional qualifications are what exactly?
@@Lloyd.BrowneReality and common sense. We ALL knew what a woman was for millions of years. But then, 5 years ago, the insane Left decided to just change the definition to, no definition at all. And they expect us logical thinkers to just go along with their cultish delusions. You are dreaming.
@@Lloyd.BrowneAre you for real.XX = Female XY = Male. That is a fact of life. You need a brain transplant.
@@Lloyd.Browneseriously, Lloyd?
@@slacktoryrecords4193 yes…still waiting!
I find it depressing that it wasn't long ago that nobody had a problem defining what a women is, now all of the sudden everyone is pretending like they don't know. Its such a brainwash.
Ban the act it is trash from Blair
Mrs. Rowling is a hero and never bow down in the front of the insane dangerous and stupid ideology! Thank you! BIG RESPECT! ❤😊👍
Who voted for these lot
Thank you !
Why is there never a constant debate over what a man is?
Because women pretending to be men aren’t as much of a threat as the reverse…obviously
O'Sullivan is all over this issue now. Excellent stuff GBNews👍
We shouldn't be having this conversation. Really.
We need to get the grown-ups back in charge again.