groped in the bathrooms at event for queer women

Last night at Sundaylicious in Melbourne (a nightclub for queer women) the toilets were all marked 'gender neutral' (i.e. mixed sex). As I walked out of a stall to the wash basin, someone groped my arse. I turned around to see who it was and a person who looked like a gay male smiled and pointed two fingers at his eyes and then at me. He quickly disappeared into a cubicle with his female friends. It all happened so quickly and I was so shocked it had that I didn't react quickly enough to call out his male entitlement over my body.

I want to stress, however, that the organisers at Sundaylicious are wonderful and that the rest of the evening was extremely positive. It's a great place for all queer women to come together and I met a couple of trans women there who were great. But there were a few male persons there, and most looked to me to be the gay male guests of lesbians/bi women. This is not my first experience of misogyny on part of gay men in lgbtiq spaces, but first time I've been groped in the bathrooms by one. And that is one of the problems with mixed-sex toilets.

#australia #melbourne #lesbian #sundaylicious #nightclub #dancing

viewpoint diversity in the women's room

In our regional city there is a space called the women's room and a group of women that use it. I was ostracized from the group and space when I suggested that we accept all women, even if they did not agree with trans ideology, or other feminist dogma. I am a feminist who thinks we should support all women and merely wanted to discuss this.

I no longer receive emails about events and I was silenced.... I am now too intimidated to share my views. The space closed down through lack of use, And no trans woman ever came to a meeting or event. The main objections (via email) came from a local university women's collective.... who never attended a meeting or event, and did not have any trans members! They said that we were not allowed to use the word uterus when preparing a pro-abortion action (red knitted uteruses :-) for local politicians. Sooo ridiculous and exclusionary.

#australia #womensroom #viewpointdiversity #allwomen #directaction #abortion

scarborough beach gender-neutral toilets

At Scarborough Beach in WA there is a long row of gender neutral toilets inside separate cubicles. They aren't sex/gender segregated. I understand this is part of a move to introduce gender neutral facilities to public spaces so as not to offend some people. The problem is that there are no urinals and the toilets are usually covered in urine. They have that stench that only seems to come from men's loos. The local council who got these installed seem to have forgotten that men stand up to wee and women sit down to wee. Many men don't care where their urine lands.

Women are having to sit in men's urine to use these toilets. Naturally, this means men are more comfortable using these toilets than women are, and we are the ones again inconvenienced by the new gender ideology. There are sex-segregated toilets further away from the main strip but it would be too far to walk with children etc. I visit Scarborough often and fear taking my young daughter into the toilets because they are often covered in urine on the seat and floor. Foul and dirty, but young children don't know not to touch everything they see. I rarely see women's only toilets in this state.

It would be much better if the loos were sex segregated.

#australia #westernaustralia #beach #scarboroughbeach #toilets #bathrooms #genderneutral