Just saw this and I know it's not gender related directly but I think it just highlights how empty the "trans rights" movement is. I'm too tired to articulate properly but seriously, thousands upon thousands spent on virtue signaling when we don't have the fucking basics right.
Last year I posted about how our local supermarket had a huge Pride display in the entrance, but didn't make it clear that not all of their check outs were wheelchair-accessible. A cashier explained that there were a few wider aisles further up, but that I had to "look for them".
Shame they couldn't make them as colourful as the
Trans Pride display!
For context, my partner uses a wheelchair and is reliant on someone else to operate it (for health reasons). We either attach a wheelchair trolley to the front or he puts a basket on his knee. We find the self-service tills very difficult to use due to lack of space, at least the ones locally are designed for one person and his wheelchair blocks the next till, also forcing customers to squeeze past him.
So I was interested to read a BBC article about self-service tills, especially this bit:
Tesco said it introduced self-checkout tills nearly 20 years ago. A spokesperson for the country's biggest supermarket said: "We are proud to offer customers choice when it comes to checking out and customers can always ask a colleague for a manned till to be opened."
But Fazilet Hadi, head of policy at Disability Rights UK, said customers should not have to ask for a staffed till to be opened. "They're not always that visible, these staff. What if I can't see them?"
This is true of many situations when a person has a disability. The help is there but not always obvious (I didn't know I could request this) and often involves wandering around trying to find someone to help - quite ironic that those with mobility difficulties often have the furthest to go!
But it was her next sentence that really caught my eye and made me think about the Trans issues.
However she acknowledged that reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities "have to be proportionate".
"What's reasonable for a multi-million pound chain may not be reasonable for a corner shop," she said, but added that choice was important as everyone's needs are different.
From a disability viewpoint I agree with her. Adjustments have to be reasonable and proportionate. A simple adjustment to the till situation could be to have a buzzer to press to request assistance instead of hunting a member of staff down.
But look at that sentence again replacing disabilities with Trans.
...reasonable adjustments for Trans people "have to be proportionate".
...choice was important as everyone's needs are different
.
This is what's
not happening. Adjustment for Trans people are
not proportionate. Their needs are trampling over everyone else's. Choice is not given, we have to go along with the mantra or be labelled as bigots, Nazis and or cancelled.
Trans people have a choice. They can choose not to infringe our spaces, take our places in our sports and insist that our language is changed to suit them.
The vast majority of disabled people have no choice. They can't identify out of their disability and fit in with the rest of the world.
Here's the article.
Supermarkets are beginning to question the divisive technology after years of criticism from shoppers.
www.bbc.co.uk
In what world is it ok for a member of staff at a hospital to take a child patient home with them.
