Mick Hartley

I’ve no idea why Brazil – and Latin America generally – should be so in thrall to gender ideology, but here we are. From Reduxx:

A female university student in Brazil was arrested after telling a male who identifies as “non-binary” to leave the women’s restroom. According to a press release from the Military Police, the incident occurred at Darcy Ribeiro Campus of the University of Brasília (UnB) on November 11….

The female student was ultimately charged with “racial injury,” an offense created by Brazil’s Supreme Court in 2019 when it found that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity was covered under pre-existing anti-discrimination laws relating to race or national origin. She was held overnight without bail….

Since the news of the arrest, non-binary and transgender students at the University of Brasília have launched protests demanding that all bathrooms on campus be made gender neutral.

One campus activist group, calling itself Movimento Correnteza, boasted of “reclaiming” two restrooms in the Sociology Department by vandalizing them.

“Yesterday at UnB, we marked trans territory. At the ICC Center — above the Academic Center of Sociology, we de-binarized a bathroom by decorating the space, affirming our presence in a place from which they always tried to expel us,” the group wrote.

“Debinarizing is turning a bathroom divided between ‘male’ and ‘feminine’ into a bathroom for all students, breaking the binary logic that produces exclusion, violence and embarrassment. It’s affirming that our bodies have a right to exist and circulate fully in the university.”

Well, that’s one way of putting it. Breaking the binary logic by violently taking over women-only spaces – using the modish language of cultural studies to justify misogyny. Isn’t that always what this is about?.

And here is the de-binarised bathroom. Or, males marking their territory: