I’m new here and don’t know what to put in my profile. She/them, living in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Thanks for sharing your thoughts. That locked due to sex thing is irksome for sure. How can their logic be “other people have sex therefore you have nowhere to pee”?!

    It creates a weird fear in my mind of using one while I could be using another but instead I’d be blocking someone who needs the special infrastructure in the toilet.

    This is a big part of it. As a bi cisgender disabled person I feel like we are being herded into making decisions about sharing/competing for a scarce resource somehow. It sort of feels like they are ticking off all their “other” boxes with this one toilet.

    I felt quite selfconscious when a person with no visible disability walked out of it and I was outside in a wheelchair waiting. I’m pretty sure they were rainbow community and I didn’t want them to feel like their use of the toilet was at my expense.

    It also feels a bit problematic to me that there’s an assumption that disabled people specifically are never bigoted or unsafe for gender diverse people to be around.












  • Ugh, yours sounds even worse than ours.

    We just elected a centre-right party that needed to go into coalition with our most right-wing party, who are libertarians, and our most populist party. They finally formed yesterday and now we have a government that is going to destroy the environment and decimate social services.



  • Maybe it’s because I live in a country where the police don’t carry guns (and sex work is legal), but I found it really hard to put my finger on exactly what they are advocating for here.

    They seem to be saying that police only exist to enforce middle class interests? I don’t think that’s entirely true.

    I would like to see more change in how policing is done, but the idea that communities self-police is idealistic. Sure they do in some ways, but it can be just as selective and just as damaging as anything police do.