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I don't follow. All those words mean the same thing.

I see what you did there.

Father Jack would be proud. /find your own feckin' video

I know there are a handful of trans folk around these parts, so I will make an attempt at asking a question which makes me seem very confrontational and lazy at the same time, though merely coming from a position of ignorance (and laziness): is the term “trans man/woman” preferred over just calling a trans man a woman by the trans man?

If so, why? Or is it something of an individual preference?

Nah, the spokespeople for the company.

They basically said they were playing along with the prospective client to avoid embarrassment.

They’re British so it seems legit.

Not really sure why avoiding embarrassment is better than outright stating you engage in illegal shit, though. Priorities, bro.

The fuck is this, guys. Discourse regarding censorship and toilets and nobody’s gone off the rails to get banned?

I am disappoint.

I foresee argument that was had in another thread repeating itself.

Nah, that's an aimed shot with no obstructions in between, no more than a screen's distance away.

The civilian is 4 screens away down an alley, the entrance of which is flanked by two cars.

Whether or not I'd notice is beside the point. Maybe I would, maybe I wouldn't. If a normal woman with short hair entered the bathroom, I may not notice either. But she ought not be there - it is a social (possibly even legal; not sure of the subtleties) law that a woman uses the room accorded to her sex.

"Trans men are men, trans women are women." Psychologically, I do not doubt that this is their internal definition. Alas, what the mind wants, the body does not always mirror - and it is the discomfort associated with different bodies meeting which is the issue. Not how they view themselves. It is another case of gender vs. sex, a distinction which seems to be increasingly bandied about - their self-gender is different, their sex is not. Segregated bathrooms segregate according to sex. Saying your gender is different is a moot point.

But I get the distinct feeling that I am only repeating myself now.

I think you're just getting into things a bit too deeply. Sex is a physical thing, gender is a social construct. In the very specific instance of using a bathroom, it literally doesn't matter. Everyone in a bathroom is, ideally, evacuating waste from their body. Ideally they will all be in their own semi-private little cubicle, so what does it matter that they have a penis or a vagina, or a medical tube or just a hole from which fluid comes forth?

You just made it question it’s existence by taking away all the fun things, man. Nothing will survive being Bored.