Nearly one third of MSPs and staff don't know which toilet to use at Hollyrood

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Article itself is behind Paywall but the headline is astonishing and I'm linking tovthe discussion on X x.com/Mike_Blackley/status/2069888195127287862?s=20

If you walk in and find Kirsty Blackman in there, you know you're in the men's.

ETA: Just remembered she's and MP, not an MSP but they're all stamped out with the same cutter.

And these people are running the country !

They are idiots or liars. Take your pick.

But they are embarrassing to the Scottish Parliament.

I think they could easily be both idiots and liars, @PronounssheRa - having watched them ‘work’ over recent years!

Maybe its not the "gender woo" they can't work out, but the "toilet" bit?

They've been pissing behind the bins for the past 20 years.

Being charitable, could it be that some of them are unsure about whether it’s ok for anyone to use the gender neutral toilets if there’s a big line at the other toilets? Because if the signs just appeared with no context I can see how that could be confusing for regular people and I would think that not every single MSP spends their life on TwiX hating women.
More likely the majority are doing performative nonsense.

Another tribute to the Scottish education system ..,

THey know which one they SHOULD use
as everybody knows what sex they are
but these twits want to feel speshul

‘The most popular improvement recommended by the survey was more single-occupancy options’.

Unfortunately they are a health and safety problem. But they do offer the privacy you need in mixed sex environments to stop discomfort and also voyeurism by actual eyes and ears (rather than virtual hidden cameras). Of course, the building has already been compromised by hidden cameras in the toilets. Private, single occupancy ones with the extra bits like ventilation grills, sink plumbing and dryers they need are very attractive. All doctors, teachers, other school staff, policemen, politicians etc who have been charged for using hidden cameras in toilets are male.

Then of course, anyone who has a medical emergency in a toilet is greatly compromised. There have been a couple of high profile cases in Edinburgh where people were found deceased hours or days after entering the toilet.

Then there’s cases where vulnerable women and children have been led into these private designs of toilet by men. That’s also happened in Scotland recently.

And of course the fact that pathogen load is greatly increased in a unisex toilet. The sinks and dryers are better away from the flush plume spread area for obvious reasons. Women’s toilets are healthier as it is scientifically proven they are more likely to wash their hands than men. Unisex toilet door handles are particularly grim.

@mypronounsaremine

From the article:

"Across all staff based in the building, 74 per cent said they felt they ‘understand which facilities are designated for me to use’ but this figure falls to just 68 per cent for those based in the MSP block, which is MSPs and their staff."

[emphasis mine]

Nearly one third of MSPs and staff don't know which sex they are.

Frightening!

The school yard needs a monitor, they can have someone go around an issue the kiddolts with a card that tell them which bogs they're supposed to use. Or give out colour coded lanyards, they'd love that, they like pretty things. 😂

The question, in their heads, will be do you know what toilets to use, and everyone else too, or are you a transphobic bigot who wishes trans people were dead.

Everyone knows what sex they are. They also know what sex everyone else is, they're just frightened to say it.

In terms of leadership qualities tho, it's barely one level above not understanding what biological sex even is.

I think we have inadvertently discovered the test that should be applied to everyone who wants to stand for election in the UK. .

You work on these premises where there is a range of facilities available. Which toilet should you use? Male, Female, Disabled or Inclusive?

All don't knows, anyone who lies or anyone who finds the question too complicated should be automatically barred for failing to reach a minimum standard.

It's not like this is a high bar of intelligence.

Let's be honest, their job is to write law/policy for the average reasonable person to be able to understand without difficulty whilst upholding the most basic of rights of everyone. It shouldnt be a hard thing to work out.

Is that % broken down by which party the confused MSPs belong to?

Many people ARE very stupid, and many people believe what they're told. There have been many years of deliberate misinformation in Scotland. I was reading some online comments yesterday. Someone said that if men used the women's toilets women were at risk of sexual assault. A woman replied that if women used the men's toilets men were likewise at risk of sexual assault. Some women really seem to believe that women are just as strong as men and just as keen on sexually assaulting the opposite sex, so that women are no more at risk than men are.

How do they know they are Scottish i wonder?

Assigned Scottish at birth (or arrival in the country) of course.

Though free to identify as Brazilian, Indonesian or even Martian, as their fancy takes them.

It's a huge big feeling

Is it their Tunnocks?

is there a local preschool that could lend some of their three year olds to pop in and help?

Actually, this isn’t a bad idea. Anyone remember the Channel 4 series a few years back that brought groups of 4-year-olds into care-homes? Gradually, the crusty, isolated and slightly confused inhabitants, who'd lost contact with the outside world, if not reality itself, came to see everything in a more positive and sensible light thanks to the refreshingly matter-of-fact approach of the very small children.

Hmmmm. I can’t think why I was reminded of that 🤔 But perhaps time for a sequel?

No, the view in Scotland seems to be that you're not Scottish if you weren't born in Scotland.

There are quite a number of people discussing trans issues online who say that it's very difficult to know what sex someone is, there are so many factors, blah blah. For instance if someone with a penis has grown breasts, thinks like a woman does and feels at home in dresses, maybe his sex has now changed to female. I noticed one woman claiming that if she had to guess what sex a group of random people were, she'd probably only get it right for 7 people out of 10.

It's amazing how many people think that their claims of ignorance are actually believable - makes you wonder how the human race has survived and operated all these years with so much confusion around who was male and who was female.

Absolute shower of twits.