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Keep McIver's Ladies Baths Women & Children Only

1,725 Comments

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Women need this safe space

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Azlina MN
5 years ago

Not an Australian but I will support this so that women around the world continue to have a safe space accessible to them where they feel comfortable to be themselves.

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Hugh Clough
5 years ago

Women need sex based spaces for their personal comfort and safety

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Cath Writes
5 years ago

stand up for women and children. No penises in womens spaces. #womenonly

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Bronwen Evans
5 years ago

Stop the misogyny; let women have their spaces free of men, trans-identified or otherwise.

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Elizabeth Lee
5 years ago

Women and children deserve safe spaces free from men and without being made to feel bad for it.

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Alister Ferguson
5 years ago

I have nothing against transgender women, but I see no harm in this pool continuing with it's current policy. Women NEED to have some spaces that are only for women. It's only fair.

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Kayla Worley
5 years ago

Women need their own private spaces and deserve access to the ocean and to swimming without men present: regardless of any cosmetic surgeries, drug alterations, or outfits these men wear. It is violating women’s rights to privacy and religious rights of women who cannot be around men in various states of undress required for swimming. Please respect us as a biological class of people who are harmed and oppressed specifically because of our female biology.

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Catherine Truman
5 years ago

It is a precious sacred space for women and children. Please preserve its access and history.

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melissa burke
5 years ago

Women were awarded their hard-fought protected spaces for a reason.

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Jennifer Arrindell
5 years ago

Women deserve single sex spaces. This is horrific

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CLaudia Bergermayer
5 years ago

Women´s spaces need to be protected!

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Christopher Wainhouse
5 years ago

This is one of the very few safe places for women to swim. As a man who is not permitted to swim there I have absolutely no problem with these restrictions. Keep up the good work.

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Women have fought hard to have spaces away from the eyes of penis owners. Please preserve this tiny space on earth for vagina owners only. Men and those who are confused that they're not can literally go anywhere else!

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Kerry Osborne
5 years ago

Tradition needs to stand and the baths to serve biological females and children only. We need to show respect

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Sarah Jane Greet
5 years ago

Men, no matter how they identify, can access every other ocean pool in Sydney. Why do they need access to a pool that offers women and girls privacy from the male gaze?

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Catrin Slade
5 years ago

As a visitor I really appreciated this safe space for women. Please keep it like this.

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Toni Smith
5 years ago

Women and girls have legal SEX based rights to privacy, dignity and safety away from the male gaze. It’s why sex segregated spaces and provisions were fought hard for and won for women and girls in the first place. Research has show that transgender identifying males violently and sexually offend at a higher rate than men. Not all transgender identifying males or men are predatory, but there’s no way of knowing which ones are safe to be around, particularly in enclosed spaces where we are in a state of undress or asleep. This is why women of the past fought hard to win sex segregated spaces for us; so that we could minimise the risk to our privacy, dignity and safety away from the male gaze and from those predatory males/men who would do us harm or who are voyeurs and who wish to cause discomfort to women and girls by invading their privacy. Until all predatory transgender identifying males come wearing a warning label to signal to women and girls that they’re a danger to them, women and girls must be afforded SEX segregated spaces and provisions that they can gate keep to keep all males/men out. Let women and girls keep their female only swimming pond. The transgender identifying males are free to swim anywhere else they want, whereas the Muslim and Jewish women, the victims of rape, domestic/sex abuse and all those women who are/were undergoing cancer treatment NEED this pool. It’s their safe haven and legally there is no reason why transgender identifying males can’t be excluded from swimming there.

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Leanna DeLorenzo
5 years ago

Women deserve sex based spaces.

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Anonymous
5 years ago

This sanity must end/ These creeps are not 'women'. They are addicted to being repugnant