The University of Toronto is ‘temporarily’ changing its policy on
gender-neutral bathrooms after two separate incidents of
"voyeurism" were reported on campus September 15 and
19. Male students within the University’s Whitney Hall student residence were caught
holding their cell-phones over female students’ shower stalls and filming them
as they bathed. Incredible. Who could have predicted anything like that?
The University’s dean of students
stated that campus police
had been contacted immediately and had worked with residence staff to “support
impacted students and ensure the safety of the Residences.”
“Given
the serious nature of these incidents and the impact on directly affected
students, we made the decision to specifically designate some washrooms in
Whitney Hall for those who identify as men and those who identify as women,”
the dean said.
The
university carefully explained that while the changes were made in the specific residence hall of the voyeurism
incidents, “there has been no change to the designation of gender-neutral
washrooms in the other University College Residences or elsewhere on campus as
a result of these incidents.”
The
school called the action a “temporary measure” to “provide a safe space for the
women who have been directly impacted by the incidents of voyeurism and other
students who may feel more comfortable in a single gender washroom in the wake
of these events,” bigots, cranks, transgenderphobes and weirdos though they
may be.
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