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Joseph Sherlock

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Artistic Director of Københavns Shakespeare Kompagni. Multilingual theatre based in Copenhagen Our theatre is The Deer and Rabbits

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A new play from Københavns Shakespeare Kompagni.

15.06.2025 07:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But the judgement from the supreme court is very much the law and has immediate effect.

02.05.2025 09:35 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is incorrect, just straightforwardly incorrect. You really need to either talk to a lawyer or fire the ones you're listening to.

01.05.2025 20:40 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oooof

01.05.2025 05:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Which trans groups applied to put in submissions?

29.04.2025 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This deeply personal and targeted attack is totally unwarranted

25.04.2025 19:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You can accuse the person arguing that women need and deserve spaces where they can be guaranteed men will not be allowed of being a supporter of patriarchy as much as you like, it will remain obviously ridiculous.

25.04.2025 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

99.9%. Well, right now I'm arguing with someone who wants men who day they're women to enter female spaces thus making them less safe. So that's one way

25.04.2025 16:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

3) You are incorrect, you are in fact safer in a female only space.

25.04.2025 16:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

1) They were, and that fact was repeated challenge by people trying to get round it by redefining the words "woman" "female" and "sex" so it's good these have been clarified.
2. Yes they should be barred from any space that is exclusively for women, because otherwise...it isn't.

25.04.2025 16:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Possible answers include:
Yes.
No.
I don't believe in females.

25.04.2025 14:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I know you know that I asked about single sex spaces, not single gender identity spaces. Do you think that women have the right to have spaces which are exclusively female?

24.04.2025 11:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Investing our time and effort into costume is...worth it.

24.04.2025 09:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You do think that women should be able to have single sex spaces right?

24.04.2025 09:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I don't see how you can both know the arguments and also think that what you have described represents them. Do you think women should be able to have single sex (not gender indentity) spaces?

23.04.2025 15:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But look, you clearly haven't engaged with anything "GC" people have been saying so I'd recommend looking at the work of Jane Clare Jones, Sex Matters, and Emma Hilton. That would be a good starting overview.

23.04.2025 14:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

No, no it wasn't, and isn't. Male violence is perpetrated by males, however they identify themselves. What you're describing is something that people said because when they said "transwomen are men and should stay out of female spaces" they were vilified.

23.04.2025 14:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If you don't ban all transwomen then it isn't a single sex space. The reason this has had to be clarified is that trans activists had conducted a very successful campaign to convince society that "woman" had no meaning except for self identification, which is the sexist nonsense you're defending.

23.04.2025 11:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Men finding an excuse to be misogynistic is not women's fault and no reason they should have to give up single sex spaces, even if that would somehow prevent men being misogynistic, which of course it wouldn't.

23.04.2025 11:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What you're avoiding is that your solution is for women to have no right to single sex spaces.

23.04.2025 11:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm not avoiding it I'm saying you're being hyperbolic. The woman in the story was wearing a hoody, someone who couldn't see her wasn't sure if she was a woman and said "those are the women's loos" the woman replied "I know" at which point the exchange ended. That isn't policing gender.

23.04.2025 11:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And again, it is not the GC side who think that haircuts make a woman. That's your side.

23.04.2025 08:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I've already told you that no solution is necessary for occasional social embarrassment. Which is all the story in that link shows. It also says that the same thing occasionally happened before the judgement

23.04.2025 07:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

How you feel is your business but single sex spaces do make women safer as they exclude the people who commit almost all of the violence, which is men, however they identify.

23.04.2025 02:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Then you haven't heard of sophie molly, or India Willoughby, or seem many of the placards or heard the speeches given by trans activists on protests since the judgement.

23.04.2025 02:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But more broadly which do you think is more likely to cause there to be some kind of verification at single sex facilities:
1. Some women having short hair.
2. Groups of men who proclaim that they will enter women's toilets to prove they can.

22.04.2025 20:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Why would I need to have a solution for a woman who occasionally has a slightly awkward social interaction? Because, that's all the story you linked to is.

22.04.2025 20:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They visable differences between the sexes are not societal norms. I didn't say, "we can see who dresses the way our society expects a woman to dress" I asked if you agree that we can usually accurately tell someone's sex. Do you?

22.04.2025 18:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ok. Just to calibrate, do you agree that sex is usually (but not always) visually disernable?

22.04.2025 17:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why have you put quotation marks around biological woman?

22.04.2025 17:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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