{"id":9306,"date":"2023-01-18T10:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T10:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/?p=9306"},"modified":"2023-01-18T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T11:00:11","slug":"womens-rights-network-greater-manchester-reject-unisex-spaces-and-gender-self-identifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/womens-rights-network-greater-manchester-reject-unisex-spaces-and-gender-self-identifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Rights Network Greater Manchester reject unisex spaces and gender self-identifying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Featured image: Women’s Rights Network Greater Manchester, Twitter @WRNmanchester<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women’s Right Network<\/a> Greater Manchester are calling for a rethink on sex-based rights in Manchester- rejecting gender self-identifying.

They are campaigning against gender self-identifying in prisons and changing rooms and for amendments to the Equality Act 2010<\/a> “to make clear characteristic sex is biological sex”<\/a> in an attempt to preserve the “dignity, respect and privacy” of biological women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WRNGM has been in operation for 12 months, with membership said to be doubling over the past few months.

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‘Men have no place in women\u2019s changing rooms. To state this is neither hateful nor transphobic, it is simply the truth’<\/p>WRNGM<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/WRNmanchester\/status\/1605291945882161152\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


WRNGM have been the subject of controversy due to their rejection of gender self-identifying- receiving countless TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) accusations on social media.

In response to the accusations Julie, of WRNGM, said: \u201cWe understand the need to protect marginalised groups. We don\u2019t agree with protecting one marginalised group in the favour of another\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Primark protests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As part of the campaign, members of the Women\u2019s Rights Network Manchester recently protested against unisex changing rooms outside Primark in Market Street.
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\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/WRNmanchester\/status\/1599050315898052614\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


In December, WRNM members questioned shoppers entering Primark on whether they were aware of Primark\u2019s changing room situation.

Julie stated that of the shoppers questioned, 95% were not aware Primark only has “unisex” facilities and allows gender-self identifying in their women-only facilities.

She added that GMRWN hopes Primark will \u201chave the courtesy to tell customers\u201d or \u201creconsider\u201d their changing room policy for the \u201cdignity, respect and privacy\u201d of women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Primark’s changing room policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Primark abandoned its unisex-only changing room model in late 2022 after a TikTok emerged from user Charlotte Kirby describing the distress she experienced when two men walked in on her in a unisex changing room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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@charlottemkirby<\/a>

Please be aware\/spread the word and stay safe girls. Don\u2019t go in changing rooms alone. This never even crossed my mind when I went into a unisex changing room. Thank you @primark for dealing with this so well. I know worst things could have happened but I still feel very shaken up. <\/p> \u266c original sound – Charlotte Kirby<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote>