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Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’ (www.thepinknews.com)

submitted 4 days ago by TRAHR@quokk.au to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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The Co-operative Group has removed a policy that explicitly allowed trans and non-binary staff to use gendered toilets where they felt “safest”, following new UK guidance on single-sex spaces.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's a lot of nuance hidden by an upsetting headline.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

While the Co-op may not be transphobic itself, single occupant gender-neutral bathrooms are a solution presented by transphobes who want to continue misgendering trans men and women under the veneer of a discriminatory 'compromise'.

Trans people across the UK are having their rights marginalized.

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How are gender-neutral bathrooms discriminatory? They seem to me to be the perfect solution.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Because requiring that trans people use them instead of the bathroom of the gender they identify as is still exclusionary and transphobic; it tells them that they do not belong to the gender they identify as and/or that they are a danger to cisgender individuals of that gender.

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And if a site has no gendered bathrooms at all?

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago

Then the UK law would require all such bathrooms to be single-occupant, something that may not be practical for large establishments where multiple patrons of each gender may need to use the bathrooms simultaneously.

The genderless, single-occupant bathrooms argument is a solution derived for a non-existent problem; transgender women are women and transgender men are men and instituting policy that disregards that is discriminatory.

[–] TRAHR@quokk.au 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's segregation unless you meet some nebulous criteria.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

I'm not saying it's good news, it's just more mixed than you'd expect. Just criticising the headline.