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.
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.
Because instead of just going with the easy solution of letting trans people use the bathroom for their gender, (which we’ve been doing for generations), you propose a solution that would require the entire society to get onboard with a complete reformation of how public restrooms work.
Instead of the simple and expedient solution that works just fine, you set up an impossible goal that will never be accepted by society.
Reality check. Most people don’t want there to only be gender neutral bathrooms. I think you know this which is why you’re setting this as a solution to this “problem.”
How about we just let trans people use the right bathrooms today, and you can go off on your gender neutral bathroom crusade if you like. But leave us out of it.
First, you’re confusing me with the other commenter. I just asked about what you said.
Second, you didn’t answered that question.
Third, gender neutral restrooms, bathrooms, toilets, latrines, outhouses… have been the norm for most of human history, gendered ones are the recent invention not the other way around.
I don’t know, honestly. Most people don’t have gendered bathrooms in their homes, do they? Also, what I do know is that ‘most people’, quote, “favor laws that require transgender individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth”, so I don’t think ‘most people’ arguments are of help here when it’s well known that most people will just go along with the status quo without a second thought.
Going back a couple of years the sole concept of considering trans people would be problematic and impossible to deal with. Going way further we had problems with race as “coloured” people had their own bathroom. The thing about all of this is we have the power (as demonstrated historically) to make the impossible possible.
There is no bigotry involved here, in fact it is reversed: as sex isn’t binary - its more of a spectrum. And in terms of simplicity, what’s simpler than a singular bathroom - this pointless division is what really is makes this complex.
The problem is that this isn’t the easy solution because asshats pass legislation like this. Honestly the same people that don’t want gender neutral bathrooms are the same people that don’t want trans people to use certain restrooms. Gender neutral bathrooms are not the problem you are making them out to be.
We had stupid bill like this at the state level a few years ago that was widely unpopular and repealed a year later. Most businesses labeled their restrooms as unisex to protest the bill and support the trans community.