How do women feel about the right to self-ID at Hampstead Heath Ladies' Pond? | The London Question
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00:00I think it's a good thing, and I don't feel anyone should be bothered by it at all.
00:03It's a f***ing pond. It's a pond.
00:04The pond is, like, such a safe space for women, however you define that,
00:09but it's just, I think it's great that they're determined to do that.
00:12I don't have a problem, and I don't think anybody else should.
00:14Happy to have trans women in the pond,
00:16and I'm sure there have been trans women all these times of years.
00:19We've been swimming here for 30 or 40 years.
00:22Never been an issue.
00:24I can't imagine why it should be an issue.
00:26Do what you want.
00:27I mean, who am I to question why someone should be where they are
00:32when they have totally within their rights to be,
00:34so absolutely do what you want and totally for it.
00:36It's like you want people to be comfortable,
00:37and, like, if everyone is comfortable, then, like, what's going on, making a fuss.
00:41Let people be free within their bodies and do what they want.
00:44It should be a safe space for everyone to come,
00:46so regardless of whether you're just a woman by your gender when you were born
00:51or a child's woman,
00:52it should be just, like, an intrusive safe space for everyone to come and enjoy it.
00:56If people are worried about it, there are individual changing rooms, aren't there?
01:00Yeah, they could go into the individual changing rooms.
01:03I think there's an increasing divide.
01:04There's a much larger split between groups and between opinions,
01:08which is upsetting to see.
01:09I'm from the States where it's getting, unfortunately, a lot more conservative,
01:15and there's a lot of bigotry and hate,
01:18and so one thing I do like about London is that there's a lot of diversity here
01:22and people seem to really care about individuality,
01:25and it seems more inclusive,
01:27especially, like, somewhere like, you know, the pond.
01:30It doesn't matter shape, size, color, age.
01:32Like, everyone is here just to, like, enjoy their time,
01:36be with themselves or with their friends.
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