BBC presenter launches new trans visibility campaign

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Dr Ronx Ikharia’s ‘Safe With Me’ initiative invites allies to wear a yellow badge with bold black text, signalling to trans+ individuals that they are safe to approach, especially when using public toilets or navigating other gendered spaces.

Launched by Dr Ronx – a Black, non-binary, transmasculine emergency doctor and BBC presenter – the campaign responds to the Suprememe Court's judgment that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refers strictly to biological sex, a decision that campaigners say has heightened fear within trans+ communities.

Dr Ronx said: “I have often been kicked out of toilets because people don’t know where to place me. But when I’m with someone, it happens less.

“This badge is about making allyship visible. It’s non-confrontational. It’s a signal to a trans+ person that they can come up to you and feel safe doing so.”

Dr Ronx is best known for presenting on the BBC’s Operation Ouch! and The Unshockable Dr Ronx, where they combine medical expertise with youth-focused storytelling.

Off-screen, the Hackney-native works on the frontline at Homerton Hospital while strongly advocating for inclusive healthcare and increasing representation for marginalised young people.

Continues at https://www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/23072025-bbc-presenter-launches-new-trans-visibility-campaign

Huh?
This makes no sense.

A person who doesn't want to use the single-sex facilities of their own sex is not "unsafe" using a unisex third space facility, and doesn't need an escort.

Public venues, schools and places of employment that do not uphold the rights of female people to use single-sex facilities are breaking the law. Being escorted by someone with a yellow badge does not relieve the people in charge of the building of that responsibility. Wearing a little yellow badge does not give anyone the power to unilaterally redefine a single sex facility as unisex, which is an attack on the rights of the other users of those facilities.

And the very idea of such a badge is ridiculous as it carries such an irrational suggestion that people who want the law to be upheld are somehow "dangerous". I wouldn't wear an "I'm not a psychopathic serial killer" badge despite being not a psychopathic serial killer either, but trans people are in absolutely no danger from me. I will happily provide anyone with assistance to locate facilities that they can safely and legally use, if they can't manage without support, as would 99.999% of the population. Transphobic violent people clealy exist but at such low numbers that it makes no sense at all to have a special badge to say you aren't one of them.

This was the individual whipping up the mob outside the CAN-Sg conference last year. A mob that required the police to declare a significant incident and attendees to be ushered round to a back door. A very safe individual.

"This badge makes me safe to take you into the toilet with me... shall I take your hand?"

Do these people not have even a basic understanding of safeguarding?

“Non-binary trans-masculine…” …? Ok then …

"They explained that although the Supreme Court judgment is guidance rather than law"

Umm....

I think Dr Ronx is quite poorly and doesn't understand anything about safeguarding or vulnerable children.

"They explained that although the Supreme Court judgment is guidance rather than law"

Umm..
Indeed

..So now if I dont wear a badge I'm threatening literal violence against AGP perverts and a clutch of zoomers that are desperate to prove how special and unique they are

Puh-lease

So Dr Ronx will accompany a man in a frock into the women's toilets and also accompany a woman in a suit into the men's toilets. Hmmmm.

From the article:
They explained that although the Supreme Court judgment is guidance rather than law, many institutions have used it to justify excluding trans people or failing to protect their safety at work.

I thought that the SC judgement was clarification of the law and that many institutions are now following the law.

Also interesting that the term 'trans+ community' is used. Does this mean they are at last leaving LGB the fuck alone?

BBC presenter? Like Schofield and Savile? Huw Edwards and Greg Wallace?

Would they have said no to a badge that indicates trustworthiness?

“come with me little boy - see, although I’m a stranger, I’m wearing a yellow badge which means I’m a safe person to escort you to the toilets”
Cant think why this could be a little bit of an issue or be exploited by people who want to have unchallenged access to confused teens 🙄

So basically it's a badge telling people to break the law.

Dr Ronx said: “I have often been kicked out of toilets because people don’t know where to place me."

It sounds like people do know, it you who doesn't "non-binary, transmasculine"., WTF does that me? . 🤮

Yeah, I'm totally confused 😳

"non-binary, transmasculine"., WTF does that mean?

It means, 'I think I am far more special and interesting than you and this is the most interesting thing about me, and you should be totally fascinated and in awe of my specialness',

No. It’s like the I AM WHO I SAY I AM placards, which Jimmy Savile would also have embraced with enthusiasm.

The instant someone talks about people wearing a yellow badge with bold black text signalling their cultural identity or belief, I remember a terrible episode in human history. A terrible period when a specific group of people were forced by an authoritarian regime to wear a yellow badge with black text . A group of people defined by their cultural identity, belief, or heritage. What's more, this group of people were not allowed to self-define their identities.

And the TRAs call _us feminazis!

I don't particularly think Dr Ronx is a safe person to be around, no matter what the badge says. Clearly quite deluded.

She's what we used to call a butch woman.

Utter nonsense. The new email signature.

Dr Ronx is saying that women who don’t look like a stereotype of women are safer around other women if they have a companion.

I’m not going to diss Dr Ronx’s experience that other women sometimes think she’s a man. I also expect that she experiences racism mixed in with that. I can be GC and still think that women can suffer if the section of the public that thinks they can always tell (some of whom are GC, some very pro-gender in a right-wing way) try to police women’s spaces personally - that’s why I welcome clarifications of the law which can help to reinstate the social contract that previously governed them.

I can’t forget though that Dr Ronx’s harm minimisation approach on TV to a girl wearing a binder with restricted breathing looked awfully like affirmation of self harm to me without exploring any of the possible issues that could lead to a teenage girl getting putting herself into a corset. Likewise telling anyone that someone who wears a badge is a safe person is very very naive.

I'm sure I could have worked it out eventually but its early thankyou 😺

Dr Ronx is not just a BBC TV presenter; Dr Ronx is a BBC TV Children's presenter.
Hmm.

Not as well paid as them, I suspect. (Because they all ‘passed’ in society until they were outed, whereas Dr Ronx….)

I just want someone to reassure me that this doctor does not have the key to the Poison Cabinet.

What complete nonsense. So a woman, a doctor, has unilaterally decided that the Supreme Court judgement is merely guidance, not the law. Everything that flows from this will be a pile of rubbish.

Love the reference to people not being able to leave the house for 4 days after the judgement. Also being too exhausted to carry on the fight, but mustering the strength to do so🙄.

They’ve basically been told (reminded) to keep out of spaces designated for the opposite sex, as was always the case. But as they’re an entitled bunch of cry babies (at best) & law breaking, boundary crossing safe guarding risks at worse, they stamp their feet & say no.

Being accompanied by a self righteous zealot wearing a badge won’t make it ok to break the law. It’s also an early Christmas present for those with ulterior motives, to offer to accompany vulnerable individuals, including children, into spaces they shouldn’t be.

Having ruined & attempted to redefine the word kind, schemes like this will do the same for the word safe.

[...] Dr Ronx – a Black, non-binary, transmasculine emergency doctor and BBC presenter [...]

What does this mean? Anyone here that can speak stupid and can translate this to me?