An example of why it's hard to change the subject from bathrooms -- the Guardian has an extrodinary piece by Jack Nicholls today.
Jack Nicholls: I was kicked out of a UK toilet
As a trans<woman?> Australian, I was kicked out of a UK toilet. This is not the open-hearted Britain I remember *
I used to be proud of my birthplace for its cosmopolitan tolerance. Visiting now, it feels like stepping back decades
* my note
It's extrodinary because, if you visit his Instagram account (search for: "Jack Nicholls Made in L.A."), he's simply a man with a glam rock haircut and five o'clock shadow in a dress, and that's for a publicity photo. Indeed, in the article he writes as though one is to suppose that he has dressed fem for a special occasion which was wrecked by the genital police.
I was in full makeup and a dress when my female friends took me out dancing at an alternative hub that has always prided itself on being an accepting space.
He's practically a caricature of exactly the sort of man who women wouldn't want using single-sex spaces - one who obviates the designation. And yet, the Guardian has allowed him to present it as though it were a human rights abuse of Trumpian proportions.
The Guardian wants us to take the issue seriously, the great human rights cause of our time. Fair enough. Make your case. Opinions can differ. But what they publish on the topic has increasingly become gibberish or clownish.