Poilievre says 'biological males' should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms ( www.cbc.ca )

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans rights on Wednesday, saying "biological males" should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms.

"Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," Poilievre said in Kitchener, Ont.

The Conservative leader made the comments after being asked if, as prime minister, he would introduce legislation to prevent "transgender women" or "biological men" from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters.

"A lot of the spaces … are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear ... what reach federal legislation would have to change them," Poilievre said.

"But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added.

avidamoeba ,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

Follow up question for PP, what's a biological male?

CanadaPlus ,

Make a policy on any of the issues Trudeau is supposedly bungling <-> Murican' style culture war

Sweaty superhero meme.

Yeah, I'm not sure why he's doing this. I guess his general polls are looking really good so he's focusing on his own caucus? Or maybe he just wants to distract from his own (deliberate, strategic) lack of vision, since I've increasingly seen it get media attention.

Luci ,
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Fuck this guy. What fucking washroom do I fucking use then? The one where I pass as a woman and no one notices or cares that I'm trans, or the one where I get assaulted or harassed by a man.

Guess I'll just shit myself.

metaStatic ,

you know that single occupant toilet with the handrail? it doesn't see a lot of use ...

Luci ,
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What exactly are you tying to say?

metaStatic ,

communal bathrooms are fucking stupid and anyone who doesn't feel safe has an option

Luci ,
@Luci@lemmy.ca avatar

Those one off bathrooms don't exist everywhere. Work just moved us into a building with gendered washrooms from a building that did have the single stall gender neutral washrooms.

The option isn't always there my dude.

ramjambamalam ,

Gendered washrooms are silly. Actually enforcing gendered washrooms is pants-on-head backwards and I think everyone in this thread agrees on that.

slappy ,

Are they proposing genetic testing on every live birth? You can't really make an accurate biological determination outside of mandating it for everyone. Is that the best use of funds? Shouldn't they just outlaw pregnancy instead to save money? Is Poilievre pro-extinction of all humans?

CanadaPlus ,

Don't forget intersex people exist, and even more people with chromosome issues, upon whom genetic determination might be nuanced.

The real goal, of course, is to throw red meat to his base. Non-political casualties are unimportant.

wise_pancake OP ,

Honestly I think this is just a bad take. I didn’t see it on lemmy so I’m posting it (never done this before).

For athletes and competitive sports, realistically that’s a discussion that you need nuance for.

Blocking trans women (and not men for some reason) from change rooms and washrooms? Are there even cases where trans women are creating issues? Lesbians are perfectly capable of ogling women in those spaces anyway.

nyan ,

Are there even cases where trans women are creating issues?

Pretty sure that's purely a right-wing boogeyman. And, let's face it: a man who wants to spy on women in a washroom just needs a janitor's coverall and some small cameras they can plant while "cleaning" or "performing repairs".

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