Or just make all bathrooms gender neutral and stop obsessing about what genitals people are born with. It really doesn’t matter, it’s none of our business.
Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Can’t this be solved by requesting that trans people use the disabled bathroom? And maybe mandating that a gender neutral bathroom be made available (can also double as a disabled one)
Zip2@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 days ago
May be a bit more expensive to do that, but I have been places where this is the case
flamingos@feddit.uk 4 days ago
That’s not really fair on disabled people, their facilities are already limited and having a bunch of non-disabled people add strain will only exasperate that. Also, forcing trans people to use a special trans toilet will also out them in public and potentially make them less safe.
This is also such a non-issues, trans people have been using the toilets of their gender identity for literal decades and it’s only become an issue now, and only because of well funded activist groups, not any issues in the real world.
steeznson@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’d say it would be the implication that trans people are disabled which is the most problematic part of the disabled toilet suggestion. In terms of practicalities I don’t think there are enough trans people in the UK to cause significant queues at disabled toilets.
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 days ago
True, but I do still think the unfairness to disabled people is important to highlight, even if it’s just the principle of it as opposed to real world impacts. It’s important we don’t let them push ‘undesirables’ into disabled people’s facilities as that carries negative implications for both groups.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Trans people aren’t “undesirables”
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 days ago
There’s nothing shameful about having a disability. I’m autistic and have used the disabled toilet in times when my anxiety was really bad.
I have a transgender friend who said it was basically a disability, wouldn’t use the term “mental illness” as that’s quite derogatory, but gender dysphoria isn’t nice to live with from what I hear.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I don’t think transgender people are plentiful enough that disabled facilities will be overwhelmed