I don’t think transgender people are plentiful enough that disabled facilities will be overwhelmed
Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 weeks agoThat’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.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
steeznson@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Trans people aren’t “undesirables”
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I was speaking rhetorically about people like Reindorf, I didn’t mean to imply you thought trans people were undesirables.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks 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.