Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
Maybe. They were ahead of the U.S. in putting at least some guardrails on the transgenderization of kids.
Now they realuze that it is safer for women as well as for transwomen if they avoid opposite sex public restrooms, as has been honored for over a hundred years.
The UK parliament has thrown trans people under the bus on toilets, abandoning its own policy to placate activists who accosted a trans barrister on the parliamentary estate.
The UK parliament has implemented a trans bathroom ban, telling trans people that they are no longer be allowed to use toilets which align with their lived gender. Instead, trans people have been told that they must “use facilities that correspond to their biological sex or the gender-neutral toilets”.
This comes after an incident last week, where – following a grilling of the Equality and Human Rights Commission by the Women and Equalities Committee – a trans barrister was accosted by activists for using the facilities she had been told to use by parliamentary staff, in line with the policy then in place.
Robin White, a trans barrister, attended the committee as a member of the public. Due to a serious health condition, she asked staff if she could sit close to the door so that she could access the toilets with ease. Staff told her she would be able to easily access the female facilities along the corridor.
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But when she went to make use of the facilities after the session, she was confronted by two prominent “gender critical” activists, who “loudly and unpleasantly” demanded that she should not use the female toilets. They alerted security to her presence, and asked them to intervene.
The activists then made a complaint. Rather than taking action against the activists who had appointed themselves vigilante toilet police, parliamentary staff instead provided them with an apology for having allowed White to use the women’s facilities,
Now they realuze that it is safer for women as well as for transwomen if they avoid opposite sex public restrooms, as has been honored for over a hundred years.
The UK parliament has thrown trans people under the bus on toilets, abandoning its own policy to placate activists who accosted a trans barrister on the parliamentary estate.
The UK parliament has implemented a trans bathroom ban, telling trans people that they are no longer be allowed to use toilets which align with their lived gender. Instead, trans people have been told that they must “use facilities that correspond to their biological sex or the gender-neutral toilets”.
This comes after an incident last week, where – following a grilling of the Equality and Human Rights Commission by the Women and Equalities Committee – a trans barrister was accosted by activists for using the facilities she had been told to use by parliamentary staff, in line with the policy then in place.
Robin White, a trans barrister, attended the committee as a member of the public. Due to a serious health condition, she asked staff if she could sit close to the door so that she could access the toilets with ease. Staff told her she would be able to easily access the female facilities along the corridor.
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But when she went to make use of the facilities after the session, she was confronted by two prominent “gender critical” activists, who “loudly and unpleasantly” demanded that she should not use the female toilets. They alerted security to her presence, and asked them to intervene.
The activists then made a complaint. Rather than taking action against the activists who had appointed themselves vigilante toilet police, parliamentary staff instead provided them with an apology for having allowed White to use the women’s facilities,
