Women only. Men not allowed beyond this point.
Clear enough? Apparently not. If men put on a wig and a dress – that's fine. From the Times:
A row at Hampstead Heath Ponds over permission for transgender women to continue swimming in the Ladies’ Pond could reach the High Court.
The campaign group Sex Matters is planning to make a £50,000 legal claim against the City of London Corporation, which runs the bathing ponds on Hampstead Heath, north London.
Since 2019 transgender women, who were born biologically male, have been allowed to swim in the Ladies’ Pond under formal guidance.
Critics say, however, that this is a breach of the law, in the light of the Supreme Court ruling in April that biological men should not have access to women-only spaces.
The organisation that runs the pond is strengthening its policy of welcoming transgender women to the Ladies’ Pond and said that it was planning to put up signs to say that trans women could use the pond, changing rooms and showers.
This would strongly suggest that someone high up at the City of London Corporation, which runs the ponds, is some kind of trans activist. Maybe with trans kids? At the very least they would seem to have an agenda. So, time to get tough.
Maya Forstater, chief executive of Sex Matters, said: “We were amazed to discover that the City of London Corporation thinks the Ladies’ Pond is not a ‘single-sex service’ in law. This is nothing more than linguistic trickery.
“The corporation claims that, because it chooses to define ‘women’ and ‘men’ according not to biological sex but to who wants to be referred to as ‘she’ or ‘he’, the Supreme Court judgment doesn’t apply.
“Neither Hampstead Heath nor the City of London Corporation are sovereign entities that get to make their own laws.
“We will be taking our next steps in August and think this case will be very significant in testing what can only be described as creative interpretations of equality law following the Supreme Court judgment.”
But this is Hampstead, fabled home of the literary progressive. So if not actually authoring, then, very likely, with a job in publishing or the BBC….
After the Supreme Court ruling, the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association (KLPA), a volunteer-led group representing people who use the pond, said: “The Ladies’ Pond is open to all women and girls over the age of eight and, according to the lifeguards, trans women have been swimming there for many years without incident.
“The Ladies’ Pond is well staffed by lifeguards and stewards who are there to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all users.”
Last year, in a meeting of the KLPA, members voted to reject a motion that “only those born female in sex can use the pond”. The motion, which would have excluded transgender women, was “resoundingly defeated”.
If the lifeguards and stewards are so wonderful, why not just drop the whole "women only" charade and make it mixed? No assaults or rapes then, and women feeling uncomfortable is not really a matter of any concern when compared with the validation of men's new gender identities, and the kick they get from violating women-only spaces. So there'll be one men only and two mixed bathing ponds. Women clearly don't deserve one for themselves.
Added:
🏊♀️PONDS UPDATE:
We wrote to @cityoflondon and asked them to follow the Equality Act.
Their response was 🤯
"Women-only" doesn't mean "single-sex" because we let transwomen in… so that's ok then?!
Help us bring the legal challenge!https://t.co/70v4rzAJfn
— Sex Matters (@SexMattersOrg) July 13, 2025
Mick Hartley 
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