The Equalities and Human Rights Commission’s clarification of the Supreme Court ruling on what is a woman is not as clear as it looks. It says that trans people may not use single-sex spaces – notably lavatories – but must not be left without spaces to use. So, the hunt is on in hospitals, restaurants, sports arenas for space that can be turned into gender neutral lavatories. Perhaps disabled loos can be turned into gender neutral ones, on the basis they’re intended for one person, so long as wheelchair users can jump the queue. I don’t think any of us have a problem with individual lockable lavatories; it’s the ones with shared sink space and mirrors that seem problematic, and obviously those horrible changing areas without cubicles are another matter.
Let me say, then, that I don’t really have a problem with trans people – men identifying as women – using these rather intimate spaces with me, viz, shared lavatories.
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