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Keep McIver's Ladies Baths Women & Children Only

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Sarah
5 years ago

Women's rights matter.

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Lisa Attwood
5 years ago

Women have the human right to spaces away from males. The beach is a hard place to relax because of men. Lots of women need this pool to be FEMALE ONLY. Stop pandering.

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Анна
5 years ago Featured

Please keep it only for women and children, this place may be the only one where they can feel safe and happy. I would like to add that this place will probably lose so many visitors if you do it. Please let's keep it that way for us, women.

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Julia Draper
5 years ago

There is only one pool for women and children. Don't take that away as well. If you allow self-id, that means, men will turn up and say they are women. End of pool!

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Anonymous
5 years ago

I do want to ask how we distinguish between a male's credible claims of feeling that he is a woman and ones that aren't credible. Can his claims be falsified? It seems like we can't. We simply have to accept that he is what he says he is on nothing more than his own individual authority and no physical evidence to the contrary is admissible. If these claims are impossible to falsify then I'm sorry I just don't accept them as evidence. These men aren't asking simply to be left alone and to not be bullied, are they? They are asking that laws and policies designed to protect female people and the rights of women to be rewritten to include them. They are seeking to replace "sex" with "gender" in laws. They are asking to be considered for positions on women's shortlists and positions that have been reserved exclusively for women. They are invading lesbian spaces and telling them that if they aren't accepted as romantic and sexual partners that those lesbians are vile bigots and genital fetishists. They are demanding that women ignore the evidence of our eyes are ears and believe that we don't notice that someone is physically male and to let our boundaries be run over roughshod, boundaries that help us to keep ourselves safe. They are demanding that we change women's language to describe our experiences so that it doesn't hurt their feelings. So we now have to accept terms like "vulva-havers", "uterus-owners", "menstruators", and "birthing-bodies". This is dehumanizing and actually ironic for all the crying that trans rights activists do about how wrong it is to reduce people to their body parts. And if we don't consent to these things we are "literally killing them", they threaten that they might kill themselves, or that we will be ostracized from polite society. But we're the bullies, right? Anyone who even dares to question things like people who have gone through male puberty being allowed to compete in women's sport, be-penised XYs being allowed into women'

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Women and girls need single sex spaces. It is biologically impossible to change sex.

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Wendy P
5 years ago

The safety and comfort of the many women who use this facility has to take priority.

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Cynthia Breheny
5 years ago

Women deserve spaces of their own

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Tania
5 years ago

My absolute favorite spot in coogee!

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Alayne Matthews
5 years ago

This pool as a single sex space provides a service to an under-served section of the community. It is essential that it be allowed to continue to run that service.

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Natalie
5 years ago

This is a sacred women's site and it is vital for our community that it remains a safe space for women, free from men and those with male bodies

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Gaye Chapman
5 years ago

Women need spaces away from males.

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Sacred Pool

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Madeline Cox
5 years ago

Let women have one damn thing to themselves already without men kool-aid manning themselves into the middle of it. Woman isn't a feeling. It's a lived, material reality. To deny that is rank sexism.

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Mark Straus
5 years ago

Women have a right to their own private spaces away from people who have penises.

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Lisa Marie
5 years ago

Women should have a right to swim in peace!

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Mboni
5 years ago

Women and children's rights to privacy should be respected.

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Natalie L
5 years ago

Women deserve one pool for themselves. Males have many other options. Going to that specific pool is only a way to bully women. Let's keep the dignity of women in mind. Males shouldn't be allowed in that pool.

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Samantha Bevington
5 years ago

Biology matters. SEX not GENDER.

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Costa
5 years ago

Sorry, we don’t want confused people around.