Toronto Y tries to square the circle
But…how…
But how can there be a space that aligns best with someone’s gender and needs if all the spaces are open to all genders? If all the spaces are the same in the sense of being open to both sexes, how can it be possible to differentiate them in order to choose the one that best aligns with one’s gender and needs?
If everyone is entitled to dignity and privacy, why is everyone not allowed access to washrooms and change rooms that are for one sex to the exclusion of the other? How can people have dignity and privacy when they have to take their clothes off in front of strangers of the opposite sex? If everyone is entitled to dignity and privacy, why is the Greater Toronto Y making sure they can’t have it?
It just becomes more and more clear (I hope, to more and more people, particularly female people) that the words ‘people’ and ‘everyone’ in statements like this never include female people. We’ve been aware that women aren’t people for decades, but I don’t recall the message being quite so blatant as it’s been recently.
Some lefty dudes wonder why some women choose to fixate on bathrooms or trans-people in sports when Giant World Crisis “X” is happening.
Aside from the fact that Ophelia does write about these other issues, I think it might be the fact that there are dangerous perverts intruding into every space where women were formerly able to feel safe. Every day, every where.
This affects all women, all the time. Those lefty dudes can’t process how that feels..
Can’t, won’t, don’t feel the slightest obligation to.
They need to have a footnote after the sentence “Please remember everyone is entitled to respect, dignity, and privacy.” *
*”This doesn’t mean women and girls who wish to set boundaries. We don’t take kindly to the likes of you.