A radio presenter in Melbourne has released a series of laminated bathroom signals in a Victorian sports center that tell the center visitors to allow people to use which facilities they feel safe '.
Radio 3AW-Gastheer Tom Elliott caught the wind of the bathroom signs after a 14-year-old listener saw them in the Oakleigh Recreation Center and she hit like 'madness'.
The signs were placed outside of changers in the middle and one read: “Trans, gender diverse and non-bino people are welcome here.”
'Use the toilet of your choice. In this room you will find, toilet cabins, sanitary bins, shared washing basins and mirrors, shower cubicles, shared change space, lockers. '
Another board asked the users of the facility if they 'feel that someone uses the' wrong 'bathroom'.
“Please don't: stare at them, challenge them, insult them, don't let them feel deliberately uncomfortable,” read a column on the board.
“Instead, please: respect their privacy, respect their identity, continue your day, protect them against damage.”
Elliot said that the recreation center seemed to have given up the idea of male and female bathrooms. “
The signs placed outside the change of change in a recreation center of Melbourne led to severe criticism
Tom Elliot, a radio presenter for 3AW, said the signs in the recreation center were 'madness'
“This is madness. The number of people who are really trans, non-binary and gender diverse is small, “he said.
“The amount of rule changes and mucking around with changing rooms, and the way we shift our language and everything for people who are a fraction of a percent of the total just surprises me,” he said.
“There are very good reasons why we have separate male and female change, men and women, boys and girls are different from each other!” he said.
'Otherwise in very obvious and – given the spread of the human species – very important ways.
“And yet you have supporters … that undergo this kind of crazy, trans -ideological rabbit hole.”
The fourteen -year -old Sam told Elliot that he had seen the signs in the recreation center.
“For both male and female exchangers and bathrooms I saw two signs of both something to do and what not to do when you see someone who seems to be diverse,” Sam said.
“It just makes me sad that girls have to struggle with this, that they now have to worry about being changed for literal men, they are men.”
“I've never seen this sign before.”
Monash Local Council defended the signs in a statement.
“Access to bathrooms in Monash Council facilities is in accordance with the federal and national legislation that outlines that people who identify as non-binary, gender diverse or transgender can be toilets and facilities that they use most comfortably,” said a spokesperson Daily to Mail Australia.
Monash Council said that facilities in their LGA adhere to the state legislation on gender diversity
“This includes the Victorian Gender Equality Act 2020 and Australian Sex Discrimination Act 1984.”
The Oakleigh Recreation Center contains a fitness facilities of the fitness, multifunctional courts, gymnastics at state level and seasonal outdoor swimming pools.
Sam said the showers in the change of the men's dressing rooms were open.
The anger of the broadcaster comes a month after he was criticized for a new tirade against translated safety signals.
He said earlier that road safety signs written in Punjabi in the majority-indian suburb of Tarneit, Victoria, “more harm than good.”
“The decision to translate vital communication can mean that migrants do not feel the need to learn English,” he said.
'Do we have to actively encourage migrants to learn English? Now I say this because one of our producers has noticed a TAC board in Tarneit in the northwestern suburbs … The board is completely written in Punjabi, one of India's more popular or more many spoken languages. '
“But is that a good thing? Every time we have an election, for example, you get a pamphlet in which you explain how you can get yourself on the election role, how to vote, all things like that. It is in about a dozen languages, from Vietnamese to Greek, Italian to Punjabi. '
'The more we translate election documents into many languages, the more we place road safety messages in many languages such as Punjabi, the more we tell migrants that you don't have to learn English. It is not necessary because we do the hard work for you. '
The comments were recovered from the Federation of Indian Association of Victoria.
“If you go to Clayton or Footscray, there are bigboards in Vietnamese and Mandarin … It is not going to change the world by having a signboard in another language,” said President Vasan Srinivasan last month, the Herald Sun reported.
'Cultural input is very important. It can save a lot of lives. '
