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GC Social MediaA post on women’s public bathrooms by herglowingheart
A trans “woman” is just a man. If there are no criteria to be a TW, any man can say he is. And that man now has unfettered access to female only spaces. When men have access to women’s spaces, women are not safe. A man who does not feel comfortable being a man is not then a woman. That is not the logical next step.
Elderly women, disabled women, women with children, all deserve female only bathrooms. Muslim women, Orthodox Jewish women, deserve female only bathrooms. Miscarriages happen in public bathrooms, those women do not need a man in the stall next to them during that. Periods happen, leaking through your pants happens, those women/girls don’t need a man in the stall next to them when that happens. Women go to the bathroom to get away from creepy men at bars and shows, those women do not need that creepy man following them into the bathroom (and legally being able to enter) while she tries to get away. Many many times there are stalls that don’t lock due to being broken, we can generally trust other women to respect that, or even hold the door for us. We can not expect that same level of decency from a man. Men piss on the toilet seats. Men piss in the sink. Men piss on the floor. Women should not have to deal with the indecency of men. Women should not have to use a toilet that 100 other men have used that day. Women take longer in the bathroom. We have to remove more clothing to use the bathroom. We are more vulnerable in the bathroom. We do not need men in our bathrooms. Men put cameras in our bathrooms, in South Korea we saw how bad this could get. Women do not need to deal with perverse men recording us in one of our most vulnerable states.
Women deserve safe, clean, accessible, dignified bathrooms. We deserve to know that when we leave the house we will have a female exclusive space to do our business, and feel safe while doing so. We deserve to walk into a public bathroom and not have to see men in our space. We deserve to give young girls a safe place to do their business and escape from men.
People do not leave the house if they can not use the restroom. Women do not want to use the restroom with men. Women have fought to have women’s restrooms in public spaces, and we deserve to keep them female exclusive.
Males do not belong in our spaces.
Women and girls deserve to feel safe.