Sarah, The Bringer of Tea - The Perennial Transgender Toilet Debate

29th August, 2010
05:50 pm

http://auntysarah.livejournal.com/249530.html

The toilet debate seems to have flared up on my twitter feed today, with much discussion taking place at Jack of Kent's blog.

I always find this very frustrating, but I think an important point is highlighted by the way this debate is typically framed.

The "trans people in public toilets" debate is almost always framed in terms of protecting cis women from trans women

Quite often this framing is not explicit, but is implicit in the language used to frame the issue, and in terms of what is and is not said.