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Communal changing is dangerous for women and girls. Everyone knows this but still it is ignored. How many girls and women must come to harm before something is done?

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That poor girl and her family.

One of the examples quoted in the equality act is “separate male and female changing rooms to be provided in a department store”

Legal action is the only way to stop companies and organisations abrogating their responsibilities in this.

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Willful blindness is everywhere these days. A trauma coping mechanism that is tragic and very dangerous. The temptation is overwhelming for most to continue to wear blinders and don useless masks in the face of a reality too painful to bear. The stories most tell themselves and each other to get through the day now have no room for hard truth and real facts.. This is so clear with the continuing covid insanity and gender 'equality' insanity and racial 'equality' insanity etc etc. etc. Idealogies that are completely out of touch with earth based reality, biology, nature, actual fairness etc. etc. We are a species in psychological and physical and moral decline and we are terrified. The powers that be manipulate the entire conversation and give us handy dandy targets to funnel that fear onto their desired scapegoats. The real perps are laughing at us while they pull the strings.

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Some TRA brainiac is always claiming “If men want to assault you in the women’s bathroom, they’ll do it. Laws won’t stop them.” To which I’ve started saying “Next you’ll be telling me that more guns and looser gun laws won’t lead to more gun homocides.”

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By a male. Women and girls are more likely to be sexually assaulted in communal changing rooms and toilets.

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Then those facilities have to find a way to allow male parents of female children to care for their children whilst also avoiding mixed-sex spaces that are proven to increase the risk of harm towards women.

Do you have any ideas?

Also just wanted to point out Julie never attributed this crime to a trans person.

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Easy. Just find a woman who looks nice and ask her to help. I guarantee that if you explain the situation, 99.99% of women that are asked would be happy to shepherd a girl without a female caregiver for a few minutes while she uses the women's bathroom.

Or someone (female) employed by the facility itself could take the girl for a few minutes. It's not that hard if you sincerely want to do take care of the girl, and don't just want to make trouble by imagining problems. This sort of thing has happened many times, I can assure you.

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I have no idea where you live or what you’re referring to. Others seem confused too, so maybe you could help us out?

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What point are you trying so hard to shoehorn into the conversation?

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So you’re claiming what? That dads can’t take their daughters swimming unless there are communal changing areas? Hm. My dad managed to take me to water parks when I was a kid. He’d just send me into the WOMEN’S changing room and wait for me outside. He never needed access to women and girls changing in order to take me swimming.

See, you sound like you’re repeating TRA talking points. Not only that, but you sound very young, because you are apparently unaware that separate facilities were created for a valid reason (not just to hurt male feelings), and that allowing men into women’s safe spaces is highly dangerous, regardless of how any particular man “identifies.” So I’m going to stop you before you can claim “You don’t have a problem with trans women, you have a problem with cis men” and remind you that those two groups are exactly the same people. Trans women are men, and men as a class are dangerous to women and kids, as a class.

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Fathers are men, and its men who sexually assault and rape. Not all but some. Even fathers.

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Actually, the solution to the bathroom issue is single sex bathrooms AND one or two single large handicapped bathroom or changing room for folks who need help from a parent or caretaker of the other sex or folks who don't fit in regular single sex spaces. I took care of my elderly Dad and there was usually a unisex handicapped bathroom where we went and I could help him when he needed. The pool I go to has a few "family" change rooms that also used to be used by trans individuals.

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