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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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I think if you break character and you're really honest with yourself and me, you may be able to come to terms with the possibility that maybe, just maybe, you don't sincerely believe that 'ethnicity' is a word that you, personally acknowledge is offensive.
It was a breathtakingly futile attempt to help you for once look at something from someone else's perspective. I don't know why I tried given how insulated from empathy for anyone else's feelings or perspective you have demonstrated you are over the last hours.
Lol. You really think that the victims of transphobic talk are to blame.
Lol lol lol. You are parodying yourself now! You invented this timeline, this complete fiction, this flight of fancy in which someone was insisting that it's transphobic for a doctor to ask people about their medical history, (a context and an assertion that you, and only you invented) and then you blamed someone merely telling you that you were being impolite for the DEATH of your fictional character when they followed the imagined straw man advice that literally no one gave except you. And then you congratulated yourself that you had done your best to prevent the fictional death resulting from the implausible consequence of following advice that you yourself invented!
You have to give in and admit that the sheer audacity and absurdity of this far fetched straw man is actually funny!
Ethnicity is to race what sex is to gender. Race and gender are social constructs, while ethnicity and sex are biological categories that are often conflated with their sociological counterparts.
You wanted me to come up with a slur and then try to argue that it's perfectly fine to say? I'm not going to do that, because I'm not a bigot. Just because you're trying to mischaracterize me as one doesn't mean you can bait me into talking like one.
And then you act offended that I didn't blindly stumble into your transparent attempt at entrapment? You're not worth arguing with.
Nothing I've said has been transphobic, you're just using "victim blaming" as a shield to hide from information or ideas that conflict with your own.
As for the rest of your drivel, get over yourself. Trans men aren't a fiction, and many of them do have ovaries. The fact that you're manufacturing so much outrage over using sex as opposed to gender as a useful concept in medical contexts has the direct implication that doctors would be hindered from screening trans men for ovarian cancer. And if you can't see that direct connection, then I can't help you.
Feel free to blindly stumble into problems that no one could have foreseen because you're so averse to anyone pointing out where some notions might lead.
I'm done arguing with you.