Thread: Transgender women using Hampstead ladies pond angers women

Something to chuckle at.....Looks like the liberal PC brigade don't like it on their own doorstep......



A decision by a female-only swimming pond in north London to welcome transgender women has disgruntled some regular users.The popular Hampstead Heath pond, used by local residents Emma Thompson and Kate Moss, is restricted to women over the age of eight.
A spokesperson for the City of London Corporation, who manage the pond, told the Mail on Sunday that they would allow transgender swimmers who were transitioning from male to female to use it.

Margaret Roberts has been swimming in the ladies’ pond for 32 years and told the paper she had seen someone using the pond who “looked and dressed like a woman” but claimed to identify as a man and refused to leave when asked by Roberts.

She added that in the summer she had seen a “young man” using the pond while wearing a bikini who claimed to be transitioning from male to female.

“I and many others are threatened by having to have ‘cross dressers’ openly use our private space,” Roberts said.

“Women have few private spaces and we have had to fight many times to keep the pond open.”
Feminist writer Julie Bindel is also a regular visitor to the pond and lambasted the decision to welcome transgender women as “totally unacceptable”.

“The last thing [young girls] want is to look behind them and see a male-bodied person pretending to be a woman in order to gawp at them.”

However, some regular swimmers were thrilled at the pond's progressive policy.

"So happy that Hampstead Heath Ladies Pond has an explicitly trans friendly policy now," wrote one Twitter user.
"I have been swimming there for years, as many London women trans and cis. It is a tiny piece of heaven that just got better".
There are two further ponds on the heath, one for men and a third mixed one.

A spokesperson for the City of London Corporation explained that all lifeguards and managers at the ponds are well-versed in transgender issues and have all taken training courses in trans awareness.

“We are working with the LGBTQ community to ensure our facilities are fit to serve the needs of everyone who enjoys them, and will continue to do so in the future,” they said.

The Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association added that they were in talks regarding swimmers’ concerns with privacy, reports The Times.

“The KLPA is committed to ensuring safe and respectful swimming at the Ladies’ Pond and a social environment in which everyone can expect to be treated with respect, courtesy and consideration,” a spokesperson said.

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Bloody stupid trannie twats, They could easily go in the MIXED pond but no, they have to make some sort of point.

Why would trannies want to use a female only pond anyway, thought they were after cock.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Why would trannies want to use a female only pond anyway

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

City of London Corporation, who manage the pond

Agenda pushers...and managers.

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

A spokesperson for the City of London Corporation explained that all lifeguards and managers at the ponds are well-versed in transgender issues and have all taken training courses in trans awareness.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Why would trannies want to use a female only pond anyway, thought they were after cock.

Surely there's a slot machine by the entrance allowing you to "self-identify as a woman" for half an hour and get a gorp at some flabby stretchmarked bristols?

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

a male-bodied person pretending to be a woman in order to gawp at them.”

Right there is the problem. Ms (I presume) Bindel, after a failed marriage 30 years ago and in having spent the last 60 years denying her lesbian tendencies, has no idea about LGBT issues, that trans women don't go there to gawp at female forms, and may even be a bit jealous because she does all the surreptitious gawping herself. Ms Roberts too.

[QUOTE] I and many others are threatened by having to have ‘cross dressers’ openly use our private space,” Roberts said. [/QUOTE)]It’s not your private space. It is a publicly owned and managed space. What next Ms Roberts? Barbed wire and machine gun towers.
Some folk are just too damned precious.

^ More than that...they're confusing cross-dressers with transexuals.

Originally Posted by Switch

It is a publicly owned and managed space.

You 100% sure about that?

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

City of London Corporation, who manage the pond

Originally Posted by SKkin

You 100% sure about that?

Are you suggesting that the City of London Corporation is not a public body?
Seems to me, the answer is in the title?

Why don't they get their own damn pond?

How about only allowing post-op trannies in?

Sounds a bit more logical. That way the old boilers can be certain nobody gets an erection while mentally undressing them.

Then again the non-dickless ones will cry discrimination, again.

Why wouldn't they just use the mixed pond? Would men feel discriminated against by trannies who don't wanna be in the same space?

Not long now. Female changing rooms will become "gender fluid" too.

"Gender fluid" sounds a bit edgy to me. Especially the 'fluid' bit. How about "gender flexible"

The Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association

“Daphne come quick, there’s a transvestite in the pond.”

How about "gender flexible"

how about hormone soaked freaks.

How about 4th division ladyboys?


What sort of bloke would don a bikini and swim in a freezing lake on the hope of catching a glimpse? Sounds a bit desperate.

as skkin said, they are pushing their agenda. turning the normally tolerant into the intolerant and turning supporters into extreme supporters.

introducing anger and divisiveness into society.

What about when ya bint goes into a public shitter to groan out a bad boy. ?

Ya then see a hairy arsed bearded trannie going into to the ladies shitter to listen to ya misses music. ????

That's quite fuked innit.

why is there such a thing as a "female-only pond"?

let's start there.

I swam in the mixed pond in 1990 as a kid. Its just a lake with a concrete island in the middle, if you can swim that far. The mens pond is famous for the poofters who sit sunbathing in their speedos around the edges. Many blokes don't care but the mixed pond is well used.

Hampstead Heath is of course one of Londons oldest gay sex haunts after dark.

The Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association

I reckon many of the women who belong to that association are not 'ladies' (in the old-fashioned sense of the word)

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Bloody stupid trannie twats, They could easily go in the MIXED pond but no, they have to make some sort of point.

Mixed pond?

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

Something to chuckle at.....Looks like the liberal PC brigade don't like it on their own doorstep......



A decision by a female-only swimming pond in north London to welcome transgender women has disgruntled some regular users.The popular Hampstead Heath pond, used by local residents Emma Thompson and Kate Moss, is restricted to women over the age of eight.
A spokesperson for the City of London Corporation, who manage the pond, told the Mail on Sunday that they would allow transgender swimmers who were transitioning from male to female to use it.

Margaret Roberts has been swimming in the ladies’ pond for 32 years and told the paper she had seen someone using the pond who “looked and dressed like a woman” but claimed to identify as a man and refused to leave when asked by Roberts.

She added that in the summer she had seen a “young man” using the pond while wearing a bikini who claimed to be transitioning from male to female.

“I and many others are threatened by having to have ‘cross dressers’ openly use our private space,” Roberts said.

“Women have few private spaces and we have had to fight many times to keep the pond open.”
Feminist writer Julie Bindel is also a regular visitor to the pond and lambasted the decision to welcome transgender women as “totally unacceptable”.

“The last thing [young girls] want is to look behind them and see a male-bodied person pretending to be a woman in order to gawp at them.”

However, some regular swimmers were thrilled at the pond's progressive policy.

"So happy that Hampstead Heath Ladies Pond has an explicitly trans friendly policy now," wrote one Twitter user.
"I have been swimming there for years, as many London women trans and cis. It is a tiny piece of heaven that just got better".
There are two further ponds on the heath, one for men and a third mixed one.

A spokesperson for the City of London Corporation explained that all lifeguards and managers at the ponds are well-versed in transgender issues and have all taken training courses in trans awareness.

“We are working with the LGBTQ community to ensure our facilities are fit to serve the needs of everyone who enjoys them, and will continue to do so in the future,” they said.

The Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association added that they were in talks regarding swimmers’ concerns with privacy, reports The Times.

“The KLPA is committed to ensuring safe and respectful swimming at the Ladies’ Pond and a social environment in which everyone can expect to be treated with respect, courtesy and consideration,” a spokesperson said.

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Originally Posted by Switch

Are you suggesting that the City of London Corporation is not a public body?

Yes I have the idea that it's a private corporation...Aren't "The City"(aka the Square Mile) and greater London two different animals? There's the city of London and then there's The City of London.

But I see where I may have went wrong. Last night I was tired and was equating the word "manage" with ownership. Is this pond within the boundaries of "The City" or in greater London?
If "The City" manages a greater London public property/site(the pond), is it a for profit management system? Or out of the goodness of their icy cold bankster hearts?

Over the centuries, reformers in Britain have tried, and failed, to have the corporation merged into a unified London authority. The political landscape heaved and shifted around it, but the City stood immune. As the Times noted in 1881, "The City Corporation is sacred although nothing else is."

For much of the 20th century, the Labour Party had a pledge in its manifesto to abolish the corporation. In 1917, Peter Mandelson's grandfather Herbert Morrison, a rising star in Labour ranks, put the party's antipathy plainly. "Is it not time London faced up to the pretentious buffoonery of the City of London Corporation and wipe it off the municipal map?" he asked. "The City is now a square mile of entrenched reaction, the home of the devilry of modern finance."

That quote from an interesting article about "The City" here:

The tax haven in the heart of Britain
https://www.newstatesman.com/economy...rporation-city

Originally Posted by HuangLao

Mixed pond?

Pond #8 on this map:

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/thin...-heath-map.pdf