Transgender toilets: Here we go Looby Loo!

You can’t say you weren’t warned. It’s almost a decade since Manchester university unveiled Britain’s first ‘transgender-friendly’ toilets. overnight, the Ladies were reclassified simply as ‘Toilets’ and the Gents became ‘Toilets with urinals’.

I told you at the time this was merely your starter for ten. So it proved. Left-wing councils were quick to follow suit, with Brighton opening unisex conveniences on the seafront at Rottingdean shortly afterwards.

That exciting innovation appeared here under the headline: ‘To boldy go where no man has gone before.’

Since then there has been a relentless campaign to de-sex every public WC in the country, even in primary schools — despite the furious objections of parents.

This is just the tip of the ‘trans’ tyranny, which has been driven by a vindictive, gobby minority within a minority — egged on by the usual Left-wing rabble and predictable procession of pro-celebrity virtue signallers.

The number of truly transgendered people in Britain — not only those who enjoy raiding the dressing-up box — has been estimated at a mere 0.01 per cent of the population.

It should be possible to accommodate their needs without forcing the 99.99 per cent majority to change their ways.

of course, this isn’t really about trans ‘rights’, it’s part of the remorseless revolution aimed at erasing our traditional values and demonising small ‘c’ conservatives. That’s why it’s been seized upon by the hard Left, who realise they have no prospect of changing Britain at the ballot box. Consequently, anyone who so much as rises a quizzical eyebrow at the increasingly deranged demands of the militant trans lobby is howled down as a bigot, coupled with demands that they are sacked or even prosecuted for ‘hate’ crime.

It’s not enough to accept — as most of us do — that there are a minuscule number of unfortunate people born in the wrong body who should be entitled to understanding, compassion and treatment on the NHS.

Everyone must be forced to comply with the trans agenda, no matter how ridiculous or inconvenient it may be. Pioneering feminists such as Germaine Greer have been ‘no platformed’ by gormless students unions, simply for questioning whether someone with a full set of wedding tackle should be allowed to call himself a woman.

Fay Weldon is the latest feminist writer in the frame for suggesting that some men want to change sex because they like wearing women’s clothes. There’s no end to this idiocy. Hospitals have stopped describing mothers as ‘mothers’ in case it offends maternity patients who ‘define’ differently.

The latest demand is that passports should be redesigned with a third category ‘X’, so ‘gender fluid’ individuals who wish to travel abroad can avoid being labelled male or female.

TRy waving that at Riyadh International and see how far it gets you. But, as I anticipated, gender-neutral toilets were always going to be the biggest battleground, especially once women realised what effect this madness would have on them.

How many females want to use a public toilet just vacated by an 18stone builder, who has recently dined on mutton madras and eight pints of Guinness? I’d give it five minutes, pet. oK, so domestic bathrooms are desegregated. But there’s a world of difference between sharing a loo with your loved ones and being forced to follow a man in a frock into Trap Three.

And so it has proved. The resistance has started in earnest — and it comes from a most unlikely quarter. The Left-wing journalist Samira Ahmed, late of Channel 4 News, has exploded with outrage after London’s fashionable Barbican Arts Centre introduced gender-neutral lavatories.

At least at Manchester university, women still had the choice to use the ‘Toilets’ without having to share with men who define as men.

At the Barbican, anything goes. The reactionary, sexist old khazis may have been rechristened ‘With urinals’ and ‘With Cubicles’, but they’re open to everyone.

This has naturally led to serious overcrowding as the overspill, so to speak, from the former Gents has clogged up what used to be the sanctity of the Ladies. you might have imagined that Samira, who is now with BBC Radio 4 and has written for the Guardian and Independent, would embrace this enlightened new policy, designed to combat discrimination against a vulnerable minority.

BuT no. She’s incandescent. Here we go Looby Loo. ‘Give us back women’s loos for ALL women,’ she tweeted, after finding the Ladies’ room overrun with the opposite sex — if such an archaic concept still exists.

Ahmed, who was at the Barbican for a screening of I Am Not your Negro — described as the acclaimed new film by Raoul Peck — complained to the Barbican management: ‘Listen to your customers. Women have enough trouble with queues without you imposing your politics.

‘or just turn the Gents into gender-neutral loos. There’s never such a queue there and you know it.’

Sorry, Samira, but you’re wrong there. The Gents is now genderneutral, too, though I can understand why you might want to give it a wide berth.

Whenever I go to the Barbican, there’s nowhere near enough toilets, they always seem to be miles away and they’re guaranteed to be backed up at the interval.

At least next time I can nip into the Ladies — sorry, ‘With Cubicles’.

Still, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh. In the normal course of events, Samira would be one of the first to advocate total submission to the trans agenda.

But obviously not if it means having to cross your legs throughout the second act of uber-luvvie Benedict Cumberbatch’s groundbreaking, gender non-specific Hamlet on the Barbican main stage. To pee, or not to pee? That is the question.