The toilet debate: Stalling trans possibilities and defending ‘women’s protected spaces’ 1
@article{Jones2020TheTD, title={The toilet debate: Stalling trans possibilities and defending ‘women’s protected spaces’ 1}, author={Charlotte Jones and Jenny Slater}, journal={The Sociological Review}, year={2020}, volume={68}, pages={834 - 851} }
As one of the few explicitly gender-separated spaces, the toilet has become a prominent site of conflict and a focal point for ‘gender-critical’ feminism. In this article we draw upon an AHRC-funded project, Around the Toilet, to reflect upon and critique trans-exclusionary and trans-hostile narratives of toilet spaces. Such narratives include ciscentric, heteronormative and gender essentialist positions within toilet research and activism which, for example, equate certain actions and bodily…
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