Use of single-sex toilets, changing rooms and hospital wards in England, Scotland and Wales is now restricted according to a person’s birth sex, rather than the gender with which they identify.
There are people whose biological sex is literally ambiguous. Like even doctors doing all kinds of examinations cannot say what their sex is, purely from a biological standpoint, never mind what the person themselves feels they are. What about them?
That sounds a bit too nuanced for the British political discourse.
The mad thing to me is that much of this is specifically designed to stop trans women accessing female-only spaces on the basis that “men” in the wrong spaces is bad because of peadophiles existing (the vast majority of whom are cis men, go figure), but they’re now forcing trans men to use spaces which will still cause the same triggering problems, because male presenting figures will now have to use women’s changing rooms and toilets, which will presumably still cause the same level of upset.
Sounds like misinformed bigots. There was a time where the same idiotic pedo association was made with gay men. In some parts of the world, it’s still a common belief.
There are people whose biological sex is literally ambiguous. Like even doctors doing all kinds of examinations cannot say what their sex is, purely from a biological standpoint, never mind what the person themselves feels they are. What about them?
That sounds a bit too nuanced for the British political discourse.
The mad thing to me is that much of this is specifically designed to stop trans women accessing female-only spaces on the basis that “men” in the wrong spaces is bad because of peadophiles existing (the vast majority of whom are cis men, go figure), but they’re now forcing trans men to use spaces which will still cause the same triggering problems, because male presenting figures will now have to use women’s changing rooms and toilets, which will presumably still cause the same level of upset.
Sounds like misinformed bigots. There was a time where the same idiotic pedo association was made with gay men. In some parts of the world, it’s still a common belief.