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Posted May 25, 2018 00:14 · last edited May 25, 2018 00:21

patrick478 wrote:

"Saskia Rushton-Green, the freelance illustrator who designed the cover image of the gender-neutral person menstruating"



How can someone with a menstruating vagina be gender neutral? surely their physical gender is female. what gender they identify as is a separate issue?

Sex and gender are different things. Sex is what bits you have, gender is whether you are male/female/neutral/other. 

Gotcha. So the "being with a vagina" on the cover of the magazine is female by sex but they believe themselves to be portraying a gender neutral being.

so what toilet do they use?

If i declare myself gender neutral can I use the womens changing rooms?

or is that a sex issue not a gender one?

I’d say bathrooms are clearly divided by gender rather than sex. They’re split based on behaviours - so people can generally feel safe in the bathroom etc. it doesn’t matter what junk you have as to what room you take a dump in. 

So I’d gender neutral people could use either bathroom. Lucky them!

Ideally you’d have seperate individual toilet cubicles that anyone can use, as some places do. But that’s not always practical space wise, so instead they’re divided into 2 gendered bathrooms which works well enough for the most part. 

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/23/otag...

Why is this even a thing? 

"Saskia Rushton-Green, the freelance illustrator who designed the cover image of the gender-neutral person menstruating"



How can someone with a menstruating vagina be gender neutral? surely their physical gender is female. what gender they identify as is a separate issue?

Sex and gender are different things. Sex is what bits you have, gender is whether you are male/female/neutral/other. 

Gotcha. So the "being with a vagina" on the cover of the magazine is female by sex but they believe themselves to be portraying a gender neutral being.

so what toilet do they use?

If i declare myself gender neutral can I use the womens changing rooms?

or is that a sex issue not a gender one?

I’d say bathrooms are clearly divided by gender rather than sex. They’re split based on behaviours - so people can generally feel safe in the bathroom etc. it doesn’t matter what junk you have as to what room you take a dump in. 

So I’d gender neutral people could use either bathroom. Lucky them!

Ideally you’d have seperate individual toilet cubicles that anyone can use, as some places do. But that’s not always practical space wise, so instead they’re divided into 2 gendered bathrooms which generally speaking works for the most part.