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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,

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