Everyone has the right to define their own gender identity. Trans people should be recognized and treated as the gender they live in, whether or not they have undergone surgery, or their identity documents are up to date. An organization should have a valid reason for collecting and using personal information that identifies a person’s gender.
They should keep this information confidential. Trans people can have their name or sex designation changed on identity documents and other records. The criteria and process should not be intrusive or medically based. Trans people should have access to washrooms, change rooms and other gender specific services and facilities based on their lived gender identity. Dress code policies should be inclusive and flexible. They should not prevent trans people and others from dressing according to their expressed gender.
Organizations should design or change their rules, practices and facilities to avoid negative effects on trans people and be more inclusive for everyone. Any exceptions must be legitimate in the circumstances, and trans people must be provided any needed accommodation unless it would cause undue hardship. The duty to accommodate the needs of trans people is a shared responsibility. Everyone involved should cooperate in the process, exchange only necessary information and explore options while respecting privacy...While I have no problem with this bit--
Trans people and other gender non-conforming individuals should not be treated negatively while at work, at school, trying to rent an apartment, shopping, eating a meal in a restaurant, using health care services or shelters, dealing with law enforcement and justice services, or at any other time--it seems to me that there's a big problem with the stuff that precedes it, and it is this: it requires everyone who is not trans to pretend that there's no problem with a guy who identifies as a chick--and a chick who identifies as a dude, but who retain all the sexual/genital folderol they were born with--using facilities earmarked for "men" or "women," when that is simply not the case. However, were you, as a non-trans chick to express discomfort with sharing health club showering facilities with a pre-op "woman," one who yet retains the paraphernalia of manhood, you have no right to cavil. And if you do have the temerity to speak up and complain, you have no recourse, because you, you flagrant "bigot, you--must make way for a "victim group" whose "rights" take precedence over yours.
I'm sorry. Feeling uncomfortable when placed in such situations is utterly normal and completely understandable. For the state to tell you that it isn't, and to turn such normal responses into something aberrant, is both ludicrous and dangerous. Ludicrous because it demands, in effect, that you become one of the throng cowed into averring that the buck nekkid emperor is wearing clothes. Dangerous because it amounts to an exercise in social engineering which the state in its great ignorance (while, at the same time, of course, claiming to be singularly enlightened) has no moral--yes, moral--right to foist on you.
One also can't help but feel that the current obsession with the trans and "gender fluidity" is part of a larger effort to undermine society by normalizing that minute fraction who comprise the trans community, and denormalizing--and even demonizing--ordinary folks who are not bigots, but who have the misfortune of not belonging to a designated victim group, and who the "human rights" enforcers constantly attack because of the non-victims' supposed privilege. The joke of it is that in our "human rights" Trudeaupia, it's the "victim groups" who have all the rights, and if you aren't lucky enough to belong to their club, well, then, you're plum out of luck, sucker.
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