Under the Category of: SOCIAL POLICY
Be it resolved that a new section is added (Women), under the category of Social Policy, as follows:
“To protect the privacy and security of women, we do not support legislation on ‘gender identity’ or ‘gender expression’ which grants biological males the legal right to access female bathrooms, change rooms, and showers. Such a law puts women and young girls at greater risk from male sexual predators and voyeurs.”
Rationale explaining why the above policy resolution should be adopted:
1. Allowing grown men, who have not undergone sex-change surgery, open access to private female facilities represents a violation of the privacy and security rights of women and young girls.
2. Intruding on a woman or young girl’s privacy, especially where they may be partially or fully disrobed, can be intensely frightening and traumatic. Just imagine how a 9-year-old girl alone in the bathroom would feel when suddenly, a grown man appears. Is it fair to place the onus on that little girl to discern whether the man is a predator, or merely an innocent person “expressing his gender” in a non-conforming manner?
3. Ontario’s gender identity/expression law, passed as Bill 33 under the Liberal government of Premier Dalton McGuinty, does not require a man to have first undergone a sex-change operation, nor to be taking hormone therapy, nor even to dress as the opposite sex, in order to access female-only spaces.
4. Male sexual predators and peeping toms can use “Gender Identity/Expression” laws as a loophole to get in close quarters with potential female victims, by pretending to be a “transgender woman”.
5. Canadian examples of male sexual predators and voyeurs taking advantage of “gender identity” policies are on the rise. For example, a convicted sexual predator, Christopher Hambrook, was jailed indefinitely in 2014. By pretending to be a transgender “woman” named Jessica, he was granted access to two Toronto women’s shelters. Once inside, he sexually-assaulted two vulnerable women.
6. An example of how peeping toms exploited a school’s “gender identity” policy was brought to light in 2015. A particular co-ed residence at the University of Toronto’s elite University College, had a policy of providing only “gender neutral” bathroom and shower facilities to its students, to accommodate those who consider themselves “transgender”. Two incidents of abuse occurred in September which prompted the school to backtrack on its policy. According to reports by young women, male students held their cell phones above the shower stall dividers in these gender-neutral, communal washrooms, to record them as they showered. As a result of this voyeurism, the school was forced to re-establish separate male and female washrooms for students.
To download this proposed policy resolution as a MS Word document, together with the Rationale, click here.