This business of 31 genders deserves to be flushed down the toilet at UCD
SO I was in a genderless loo the other day. There were men, women and kids milling around. Whatever. I’d prefer having a separate toilet to be perfectly honest – I don’t particularly fancy sharing with the lads after a Six Nations match in my local boozer.
In the future, though, separate toilets will be a fanciful afterthought as they have become the new battlegrounds for gender wars. One minute we’re using the loo, next minute it’s a thing.
Now UCD is to re-designate more than 170 toilets across the campus as gender neutral as part of a new policy to welcome transgender and gender-fluid students and employees.
That’s fine. Before this, I was always of the assumption that transgender or transsexual people should use whatever toilet they feel comfortable in, and should I encounter any problems, I would most definitely step in their defence.
As just 0.3pc of Americans identify as transgender, and less in Ireland, in my long history of using public toilets I’ve never seen anyone having a hard time.
Funnily enough, I first met my transsexual friend in a women’s toilet in an early house I used to call home. It was a scrappy kind of place; you’d get ravers on one side, petty criminals getting defenestrated on the other. The Scissor Sisters were regulars.
A fight could break out at any moment and yet I don’t recall her ever getting taunted in the toilets.
The last time I saw her, she walked through a fancy hotel bar in a neon orange bikini in February and did the splits topless. No one batted an eyelid.
I’m not doubting transgender people and transsexuals don’t have a hard time in situations I take for granted, but for me the toilet thing is largely just another bandwagon that comes with the cult of the victim – to which everyone who isn’t a white male now belongs.
Plus, it’s so much bigger than toilets.
What’s confusing me are the words: non-binary, ci-sexual, agender, pan-sexual, bi-gender, gender conformity, genderless – my head’s in a spin.
Apparently in New York there are 31 gender expressions, which means you have male and female, then 29 other labels. On top of that new pronouns have been introduced – ‘ze’ instead of ‘he’, for example.
Aren’t we all just people? All this stuff if just isolating us, making us fearful of communicating with others, rather than bringing us together.
Photographer and clear thinker David LaChapelle recently said in an interview with ‘Channel 4 News’, (the most leftist bias news programme on TV): “When I lived in New York in the 80s, we didn’t have gay, straight, whatever. We didn’t care – you just had to be cool.
“All this stuff is a new obsession. If you were cool, creative, had something to bring to the party – or could dance well – that’s all that mattered.”
He is so right, even though officially he should be a victim as he’s a gay man who toyed with the idea of a sex change in his early teens. LaChapelle added: “It’s out of control – so self-involved.”
I wish I lived in New York in the 70s and 80s, when LaChappelle was a busboy at Studio 54 before he was taken under Andy Warhol’s wing.
Jesus. People were just hanging out in the Lower East Side – geeks, hookers, trannies, crackheads, strippers, business people, gays, movie stars, rock stars, all having a really good time together.
No hashtags, no witch-hunts, no virtue signalling, no left-wing mumbo jumbo which has poisoned public life.
Everyone was free to express themselves without fear of being judged by self-righteous social justice warriors.
I’m kind of old school – I don’t care if someone identifies as a non-binary, gender-fluid aardvark called Jenny as long as they’re a bit of craic.
Now activists argue gender is a
The toilet thing is just another bandwagon that comes with the cult of the victim
social construct and not rooted in biology. This means being ‘male’ or ‘female’ is soon to be offensive.
Kids are now identifying as gender neutral and you’re not allowed to say to girls they’re pretty anymore.
ZARA moved towards a more gender neutral stance by featuring both male and female models sporting the same items of clothing, while in the UK, John Lewis became the first major retailer in the UK to ditch ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ labels from its children’s clothing range. Even floral dresses and skirts have unisex labels.
Meanwhile, comedian Russell Brand will be raising his child Mabel as genderless. Since the dawn of humans, we’ve established men and women are so very different.
It kind of worked that way – the yin and the yang and all that stuff. Now we’re just a bunch of freaked out, paranoid, genderless, anxious, entitled freaks not asking each other for a loan of mascara in the jacks for fear of offence.
My biggest social concern at the moment is not genderless loos, its the death of personality which is being encouraged by society.
I asked my friend, a male heading towards middle age what he thought of the whole gender wars and toilets stuff.
He said: “Have we not got more important things to worry about? I just want to go for a pee.”