My neighborhood pool was recently renovated. Instead of redesigning gender-specific locker rooms, they created a mixed locker room.
When I listened to Bernard Drainville talk about mixed toilets, or Maxime Bernier talk about the dangers of violence… I feared the worst when I went swimming!
“The rights and safety of women are violated to satisfy men who claim to be of the opposite sex,” Bernier writes in his program. Women are confronted by transgender men in locker rooms and bathrooms. »
The Minister of Education asks us to imagine a young teenager…
“I imagine the scene: a young girl who gets her period, for example, and leaves the cabin. Then there are boys next door, 13, 14 years old, looking at them, he said. Imagine the scene, the mockery, the sarcasm, the humiliation. »
Its scary!
Once there, however, it was difficult to know which young girl was menstruating or not. In fact, it’s hard to know who is in the toilet.
Unlike the small toilets we usually see in schools, in this mixed changing room these are closed from the bottom up.
They are much more discreet: you can’t see your feet and you can hardly hear anything.
A big difference
So what about the danger?
When I was younger, some of my classmates had inglorious fun in the locker rooms.
Flogging with towels, urinating on the little ones…
Outside of school, the locker rooms were also synonymous with old, naked men. An eight-year-old child who goes swimming doesn’t have to see gentlemen with their pockets bare.
In a mixed dressing room, imagine the beautiful mess…
In fact, nudity is forbidden there. The changing room has windows to the outside and the swimming pool. To change clothes, you have to go into a closed cubicle, similar to the toilet, but larger so that parents and child can enter.
And since the rest is open, everyone can see everything that happens. The tannins are monitored. Failures are rarer…
So where are the feared dangers?
Especially since Minister Martine Biron was rather reassuring last week: “Gender dysphoria […] It is not contagious. It’s not something you catch. »
The real danger
Have you ever seen a child so excited about swimming?
He can walk away a little quickly and forget that the floor is wet… you can’t walk around the pool, but you can’t do it in a locker room either… otherwise you’ll fall and hurt yourself.
This is really dangerous and you have to be careful…
Certainly, as with any good public swimming pool, you also need to be careful of warts. It seems to me that this too is the kind of matter that does not discriminate…
