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Men's rights to single sex spaces?

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JamMakingWannaBe · 15/01/2021 22:33

Genuine question, as a learning feminist.

Do men have the same "sex based" rights as women?

I'm thinking not, (and I might be wrong) therefore what is the problem with transmen and transwomen using a joint men/trans toilet and leaving the female toilet for women only?

I understand in terms of a changing facility a third space may be required, but in terms of toilet facilities, do men have rights, in law, to a single sex space?

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GodOfPhwoar · 16/01/2021 05:29

And yet if a 15 year old female identifies as a man, some people suggest they should use the men’s toilets, dorms, changing rooms etc....the previously unsafe space.

I think it’s far more likely that ‘he’ himself will want to use these spaces.

ChakaDakotaRegina · 16/01/2021 04:14

@Doyoumind

From a TRA perspective TW aren't safe in the men's.
Gay men are vulnerable, elderly men are vulnerable, disabled men are vulnerable, Ethnic minorities are vulnerable, homeless men are vulnerable - It’s a male violence problem.

And yet if a 15 year old female identifies as a man, some people suggest they should use the men’s toilets, dorms, changing rooms etc....the previously unsafe space.

GodOfPhwoar · 16/01/2021 04:06

@Doyoumind

From a TRA perspective TW aren't safe in the men's.
To be fair, they probably are less safe around other men, given the prevalence of male violence. But this isn’t women’s problem to solve.
Doyoumind · 16/01/2021 04:03

From a TRA perspective TW aren't safe in the men's.

GodOfPhwoar · 16/01/2021 03:55

But legally I believe that there is no law prohibiting a man from entering the ladies toilets.

GodOfPhwoar · 16/01/2021 03:53

Why wouldn’t men have the right to privacy too? Not everyone is happy with the opposite sex seeing them naked. Confused

OhHolyJesus · 15/01/2021 22:39

Yes of course, based on the EA2010, men have sex based rights too and the exemptions for groups/clubs and spaces applies to men and boys as it applies to women and girls.

I know a man who has shared a men's toilet with a trans man and didn't have a problem with it but has he done so he would have been able to raise it as an issue if he felt it necessary.

Though he didn't have an issue he understands why I would, should the situation be reversed and it was a trans woman in a women's toilet for example.

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