🧻🏗️While men write policy in mahogany rooms and call it “progress,” women are left squinting in the corner of a public changing room wondering when they became the national shock absorber. Boundaries? Privacy? Trauma? Please — there’s a shortcut to be taken, and apparently it runs right through women’s comfort zones. 💅
🛠️ “Redesign”? Nah. Let’s Just Tell Women to Deal With It.
Imagine you live in a house that’s slowly collapsing. Instead of fixing the structure, the landlord just hands you a yoga mat and says, “Be flexible.” That’s the current approach to gendered spaces: slap some ideological duct tape over it and call it inclusive.
The state knows the world’s changed. Knows people identify differently. But instead of building better, they legislate women into becoming human buffer zones. 🧍♀️💥🧍
Want a safe place to change after a swim? A moment of privacy at the gym? Too bad. Those are now considered optional amenities, like coat hooks or functioning soap dispensers. 🧼
Women are told:
- You’ll adapt.
- You’re strong.
- You’re not being erased, just…moved aside.
It’s equality on clearance sale — and women are the floor stock. 👗🪑
And let’s be clear: this isn’t about trans people. It’s about governments skipping out on their actual job — designing systems that accommodate everyone without asking one group to just…squeeze over.
Because nothing says “compassionate policy” like telling women:
- “We didn’t ask you.”
- “We didn’t plan for you.”
- “But we do expect your cooperation.”
What do we get in return for our understanding? Gaslighting. We’re bigots for hesitating. We’re outdated for raising questions. We’re told our trauma is a speed bump on the road to “progress.”
📣 Newsflash: You can support trans rights without dismantling women’s rights.
The two are not mutually exclusive — unless, of course, you’re too cheap to build a third changing room.
If safety and dignity matter to all genders, then the solution isn’t to cram everyone into one compromised space and hope for the best.
🚽 Build more.
🚪Design smarter.
👥Consult women.
🛠️Spend the money.
Don’t throw your failure to plan onto women and call it empowerment.
Because women didn’t sign up to be the guinea pigs in your grand social experiment.
They signed up to pee in peace. 🚻
Why do we keep letting infrastructure fail while women take the fall? Who decided “just adjust” was a valid political strategy? If you’re sick of being told to stretch your boundaries for someone else’s shortcut, say something. Comment on the blog — don’t just vent on Facebook.
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