The war on trans bladders
Leaked EHRC Guidance Reveals Plans To Exclude Most Trans People From Bathrooms
First of all they don’t mean “bathrooms,” because in the UK that means literal bath rooms; they mean public toilets. But second and more to the point, of course they don’t. There are no plans to exclude people from public toilets.
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Under unpublished guidance leaked to VICE World News, Britain’s equalities watchdog wanted to restrict the lives of trans people unless they held a Gender Recognition Certificate – despite only 1% of trans people in the UK having one.
No it didn’t. People don’t live in public toilets. It’s not in any meaningful sense “restricting the lives” of men to tell them they can’t use the women’s toilets. The obverse is not so true: women’s lives are restricted if they can’t safely use public toilets (which they can’t if men are allowed to use them too).
Trans people in Britain would be excluded from single-sex spaces unless they possess a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) under unpublished guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). GRCs are currently held by as little as 1 percent of trans people in the country.
VICE World News has been leaked sections of an unpublished guidance pack dated from the end of 2021 from Britain’s equalities watchdog, which advised businesses and other organisations such as shops, prisons and gyms to “protect women” by barring most trans people from their single-sex spaces, including toilets, wards and changing rooms.
They just will not word it honestly. It’s not “trans people,” it’s men who identify as trans. It’s about men.
A trans person looking for legal recognition of their gender identity currently requires medical assessments and psychiatric interviews in order to “prove” their gender and receive a GRC. Non-binary identities are not recognised in UK law.
Well what would recognition of “non-binary identities” have to do with single-sex toilets? Which ones would they use? Which ones does Vice want them to use?
Funny how much lying they have to do to make their case.
Men-who-claim-to-be-women are not excluded from single-sex toilets. They are excluded from women’s toilets, just as any other men are excluded. They are perfectly free to use single-sex toilets that correspond to their sex.
I acknowledge that this may constitute a de facto ban, but I do think it is important to distinguish “forbidden to use the toilet they wish to use” from “forbidden to use any toilet”, which is the way it’s being presented.
Someone’s bound to have made the case for installing urinals in women’s lavatories… I hope I’m wrong.
Hope Lye, a transvestite, has taken selfies in men’s toilets to show that he uses them with no problem. Here’s an example. He’s only a little guy too.