Help end medical misogyny. Sign our petition.

Help end medical misogyny.
Sign our petition.

Sign the petition

Please or to access all these features

Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

How trans people feel about correct-sex toilets, in their own words

327 replies

MyAmpleSheep · Yesterday 14:07

This is an interesting Reddit thread where members of the trans community write about how they feel about not using wrong-sex bathrooms toilets facilities. (The original question doesn’t say toilets, but that’s how most responders have interpreted it, I think).

https://tinyurl.com/musmm897

There’s a mix of responses, some activist, some self-pitying, some stories that are sad. Genuinely useful and thought-provoking to read what people say.

I can’t very much influence how people should post here, but it would be very easy to only to highlight or mock the more unreasonable responses in that thread. Perhaps I’m allowed to ask Mumsnet posters to be thoughtful, though?

OP posts:
Thread gallery
7
Shortshriftandlethal · Today 20:06

MashaPav · Today 16:35

It’s funny you mention that, I remember a transphobe lost a cause recently about this.

Simply existing in a space, using a cubicle, and washing your hands does not meet the objective legal threshold for threatening or abusive behaviours.
The law operates on an objective standard. Just because a transphobe subjectively feels "alarmed" by a trans woman's mere existence does not magically make the trans woman's behaviours illegal.

Men in spaces which have been set aside for use by female people only can make women and girls feel very uncomfortable indeed, at the very least.
Male people have no place in female only spaces. It really couldn't be any clearer; and anyone claiming to have empathy with women and girls would understand this and respect that.

ButtercupYellow26 · Today 21:06

Ridiculous. Either use the correct toilet for your sex or wait until you get home.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page