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Single-sex toilets must exclude transgender people, says Equality and Human Rights Commission
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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Someone said, at least to summarize, that it's stupid to think there's only two sexes, and that people are intentionally ignorant of that fact.
You called that statement "stupid fucking shit", then in another comment said "I disagreed with this fucking idiot that’s the extent of it." as if that changed the fact that what you were disagreeing with was their statement.
Thus, the understanding is that you think those ideas are stupid, and thus incorrect.
Even now, you just said "I am not talking about gender." Guess what? I'm not either. I'm talking about societal understanding of sex characteristics and how they get classified, just like the original comment you said was stupid was doing.
Of course I'm talking about biological sex, that's the primary component of the thing you called stupid. What else am I supposed to be addressing here? You literally re-stated your point again, saying "This is the stupidest fucking shit I have seen today" while specifically quoting the part of the original comment addressing biological sex. Do you need a refresher on what you yourself quoted? Here it is:
Does that statement not literally begin by addressing biological sex?
Do you even know the topic of the argument you're having right now? Are you just blindly disagreeing with people without reading the words you're quoting? I'm not sure if you're simply angry for the sake of it and ignorant of what you're talking about, or if you're just trolling on purpose, but regardless I'm done with this comment chain. You clearly aren't acting in good faith, and you clearly don't have a grasp on what it is you even started arguing about.