Letter from Hobart resident, Anne Warburton, to Holly Ewin, Hobart City Councillor, about Councillor Ewin’s proposed gender neutral toilet signs.
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Dear Cr Ewin,
I see you have initiated a project to put up posters welcoming transgender people to council-operated women’s toilets. I understand you oppose the involvement of the group Women Speak Tasmania in this project, accusing them of being ‘anti-trans’ in opposing the opening of female toilets to people with intact male genitalia.
It is quite clear from their website that they are not anti-trans; they are merely seeking to assert the right of women to have access to women-only council facilities such as toilets and change-rooms without the risk of being exposed to male genitalia. I and most women I know want the same thing.
This does not make us anti-trans, it makes us women who cherish our time-honoured right to physical privacy in public places.
Are you saying we should no longer enjoy this right?
I await your answer to this question.
Thank you for your attention.
Anne Warburton
North Hobart