About 30 years ago I lived in a share house and one of my housemates was a pre-op transsexual.  She was born a male and, at that time candidates for sexual reassignment surgery were required to live as their preferred gender for at least 12 months prior to surgery. 

She identified herself as female and requested we treat her as such.  Which we did.

Life was not easy for her in the 80s.  I expect life is not easy for transsexuals now.  It is very easy to make jokes at the expense of transsexuals, but I would like to remind those who do that transsexuals are people and deserve to be treated with respect. 

In the 70s and 80s it was considered socially acceptable to make jokes about dagos and wogs and abbos and homos.  These jokes are socially unacceptable now.   It takes a lot of courage for a person to have gender reassignment surgery, and it eludes me why, in the 21st century, we choose to denigrate these people rather than celebrate their courage.    

About 7 years ago, a male high school student came back from the Xmas school holidays dressed as a female and was in the 12 month living-as-a-female stage.  The toilet issue was the greatest concern.  Mainly due to his/her not liking being classed as "disabled".

I am not sure what was the outcome.  But the situation went pretty high up within the Department. 

DEB

Imagine the Public Conveniences door signs.  The ones with words are hard enough; let alone the symbolic ones.  

HIM; HER; DISABLED; HIM2HER; HER2HIM;

Frankly, in the past, I've used the Mens due to the lengthy queues for the Ladies.  It was just a relief.

DEB

Gotta love ......the hypocritical nanny state judges in action and as witnessed from the judgement quoted in the OP

"Norrie's sex remained ambiguous so that it would be to record misinformation in the register to classify her as male or female," a judgment summary reads.


absolutely LMAO

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@2106greencat wrote:

What public 'rest room' do they use ?? Legally ??

 

Just wondering...........

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It's not illegal to use a rest room not of your gender. Anyone can use any toilet.

But either way, all businesses and property now have unisex toilets in their accessible WCs. And more businesses are opting for standard unisex toilets generally.

interesting wonder what this has cost us and what it will cost in the future as all forms etc have to be changed just to please one person

wonder if this non gender  person works or are we all paying for their life style  my guess is we are paying for their lifestyle

so what do you call this person as how do you address them   it/him/her/she/he/shim/ or what?

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@sarah308 wrote:

interesting wonder what this has cost us and what it will cost in the future as all forms etc have to be changed just to please one person

 

wonder if this non gender  person works or are we all paying for their life style  my guess is we are paying for their lifestyle

 

so what do you call this person as how do you address them   it/him/her/she/he/shim/ or what?

 

 

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address them according to their wishes. the whims of bigots.. how much do they cost us ?

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@lakeland27 wrote:

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@sarah308 wrote:

interesting wonder what this has cost us and what it will cost in the future as all forms etc have to be changed just to please one person

 

wonder if this non gender  person works or are we all paying for their life style  my guess is we are paying for their lifestyle

 

so what do you call this person as how do you address them   it/him/her/she/he/shim/ or what?

 

 

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address them according to their wishes. the whims of bigots.. how much do they cost us ?

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r u saying that you are a bigot and you cost us .. is that right and i am reading that correctly am i not  yes i am

you are so adorable for a cuddly leftie