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Australia's Mona asked a court to reverse its ruling that allowed men inside a women's only space.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/oHT6U

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 5 months ago (57 children)

There shouldn't be such thing as gender x only spaces. Or race, or sexuality. The women aren't wrong about their points, but that doesn't make it an acceptable or thankfully, legal thing to do. I'm sure the guy who sued them did it for all the wrong reasons though. Both sides seem a bit slimy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (14 children)

So there shouldn't be girls' locker rooms either?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Why do we need girls locker rooms when we’ve had the technology for mixed gender locker rooms for generations? We call them doors and use them even in single gender bathrooms.

Certainly it’s inappropriate for sexual predators to be able to leer at girls or women, but there I also no need to have a lack of privacy from those of the same gender, if that’s what people wish.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I mean, I can see where you're coming from but locker rooms are a significant part of sport.

Comradery is built in locker rooms and they are where young athletes spend a large portion of their sporting time. This is especially true for certain sports needing significant prep time like (ice) hockey.

With young people already facing a loneliness crisis, we don't need to be isolating them further to solve a non-problem.

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