They don't want special privileges, they want same access.
For including a policy in favor of transsexuals?
It's just transsexuals or all transgenders? People have been using the umbrella term transgender that includes too wide a variety.
Anyway
asking for rights to use women's rest rooms lockers and changing areas, permission to hide their sexual ID- that's special privilege right there- one that comes at the cost of the women's own privacy. For example in swimming pools a lot of places do not have separate showers and stalls. 5 to 12 showers but no privacy and just a curtain or a couple of stalls for dozen or more women.
In the end, transgenders may get access to washroom and changing rooms of their choice but many of the women will find themselves without one where they can be comfortable and free. A lot of them who come from conservative backgrounds would be using less and less of public facilities. It's been so hard to get access to these places in the first place and now women already have to deal with more issues. And their concern for their safety is suddenly a non issue under these policies.
Frankly forcing people to choose either of the two gender when clearly they belong to neither, is not really accepting their existence but denying their independent gender. Saying otherwise is just denial and if not outright hypocrisy.
"I didn't read the article"
"Neither did I"
Article is about people protesting against Target accepting transgendered people.
The article says this is stated policy of Target:
"A man, dressed as a man, who does not claim to be a woman, and does not claim to identify as a woman, may use the restroom designated for women if he feels more comfortable there."
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Target’s policy of allowing any man to use the women’s restroom for any reason (and vice versa)"
That's what they are protesting against.
And Apart from then actual criminals and perverts, seeing how many 'women hating sexist washrooms designs' men can be using in the western world (along with the aiming problem some of them have)- if they are using the women's restroom and a woman must use the same, those women probably need to invest in that go Girl product you linked, as a must or forgo the facility.
Don't worry we get it. As another woman put it:
.....No more shall bigoted females take it upon themselves to have opinions about who should share enclosed spaces with them; after all, it’s not up to them! **** them and their irrational, hysterical little phobias! Only some people are allowed to feel threatened, or to have an idea about what womanhood means, and it sure as hell isn’t them. Other people know best.
I’ll be honest: I am struggling to see how this type of “don’t worry your pretty little head about this, proto-bigot” approach to gender liberation is of use to anyone. Women don’t worry about personal safety for the fun of it, nor do they seek to set their own boundaries just because they’re stupid and mean. They have fears relating to male bodies that are real and valid, and a sense of self that is as authentic as anyone else’s. Telling them “well, you shouldn’t – other people’s feelings come first” is just misogyny 101
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