The Mayor of Greater Manchester has declined to say whether she will support the implementation of controversial new guidance affecting trans people's access to public facilities. Bev Craig, who succeeded Andy Burnham as Greater Manchester Mayor last month, was twice asked whether she would back Equality and Human Rights

Bev Craig, who succeeded Andy Burnham as Greater Manchester Mayor last month, was twice asked whether she would back Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) ‘guidance’ recommending that trans people use either gender-neutral facilities or those corresponding to their sex assigned at birth. According to reports, she stopped short of giving a direct commitment. …
Asked again whether she intended to introduce the measures, Craig replied that her focus was on understanding what, if anything, would need to change from current arrangements. She also stressed that she would not be policing who uses public toilets, remarking that she would not be “checking people’s bits on the way into the toilet”.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    18 days ago

    Can we just have gender neutral spaces? It feels like there are way way way easier solutions than fighting about it

  • Codpiece@feddit.ukEnglish
    11·
    18 days ago

    For fucks sake, just let people use whatever ever toilet they’re comfortable with and get on with something more constructive. Too many people are trying to accumulate rage points.

    There’s probably more people accidentally using the “wrong” toilets every day anyway. This is a non-issue.

  • Arola@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    48·
    19 days ago

    Focusing on trans ideology or opposition to it is like prioritising the needs and desires of people who don’t believe in the existence of birds. There are so few people affected that it’s statistically irrelevant to the running of Manchester. Another headline could be “Craig refuses to be drawn on fringe ideology promising instead to focus on the matters most important to the people she represents”

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      19 days ago

      I’m glad I’m an ideology to be debated, instead of a real fucking being. That way, I can be dismissed and shoved to the back of someone’s mind.

    • 𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.auOPEnglish
      51·
      19 days ago

      ‘Trans ideology’ also called basic human rights, is certainly something to focus on. Simply because a group is a minority, does not justify ignoring their needs.

      As the article also states

      Craig has previously spoken out in support of LGBTQ+ rights. During her mayoral campaign, she said she had spent her career fighting for LGBTQ+ equality and insisted it was possible to support both women’s services and trans communities without “throwing our trans communities under the bus”.

      LGBTQ+ peoples are 7% of the population, luckily Bev Craig doesn’t ignore them or dismiss it as a ‘fringe ideology’ like some right wing twat.