What a Wetherspoons Pub in Dorset Taught Us About the Trans Toilet Debate

What a Wetherspoons Pub in Dorset Taught Us About the Trans Toilet Debate

Here’s my take, framed for a pub-table debate rather than a shouting match. What happened at The Swan in Weymouth neatly exposes the contradiction at the heart of the so-called “bathroom debate”. For years we’ve been told—very loudly—that sharing toilets is dangerous, unacceptable, and a threat to “female safe spaces”. This argument is almost always aimed at trans people, particularly trans women, and is presented as if it were self-evident comm…