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Single-sex toilets must exclude transgender people, says Equality and Human Rights Commission
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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You are sealioning. You don't speak to your doctor in order to use the loos. In this context, "biological sex" is a transphobic dog whistle.
I'm not commenting on the top-level post, I was replying to a comment that said:
That's not sealioning.
You don’t speak to your doctor in order to use the loos. In this context, “biological sex” is a transphobic dog whistle.
I never said that you do.
It's entirely possible to say "it's being used as a dogwhistle in this context" without saying "it's a totally useless term that can only be used as a dogwhistle."
The comment I originally replied to was insinuating the latter.
No, they said "it's a transphobic dog whistle" and you invented all that extra stuff to start your irrelevant argument. It's called a straw man.
I didn't invent anything. They said it's a transphobic dogwhistle made digestible to appease the apathetic moderate. Nothing about that statement limits it to the context of this post. It sounds overly-broad to me.
And if you think I invented the relevance to the medical field, then how do you argue with this person's comment:
Really?
This you?
If you can't see the strawmanning here, you're one or more of unselfaware, unable to back down when you're wrong, disingenuous or malicious.
That's not a strawman or an invention, it's literally what the person was saying.
Are you fixating on the fact that it wasn't verbatim? Because I had to elucidate the subtext, since otherwise you'll pretend subtext doesn't exist.
And there you go pretending subtext doesn't exist. Amazing.
And there you go pretending context doesn’t exist. Amazing.
You and I clearly use the word literally very differently. I use it considerably more honestly and literally than you do.
I'm leaning towards options (b) and (c) here.
You're the one ignoring context.
Also, you're confusing "literal" with "verbatim." A paraphrase doesn't have to be verbatim to be literal, and likewise a quote can be verbatim without being literal.
And you're the one strawmanning.
Like I say, you and I use the word "literally" very, very differently.
When I say something like "they literally said it", I mean that they actually said it. You know, that that was what they said. Literally.
When you use that phrase, you mean "that's how I interpreted it because I wanted to argue about it. All day."
No, you're using it incorrectly. You're attempting to use it as meaning "verbatim."
It's completely accurate to say "literally" while paraphrasing.
And it wasn't just my interpretation, it was the clear intended meaning as evidenced by later discussion when people insisted that sex has no meaningful use even in medical contexts.
Get over yourself.
I didn't see that in this thread. Oh, unless you're meaning it "literally" with your version of the word "literally" which doesn't man literally literally and for some reason includes absurd straw man content.