Third-gender toilet sign – now a reality in Sweden
Source: swedishweekly.com
If you don’t identify yourself as a man, a woman or are officially handicapped — where should you go to relieve yourself? In Sweden, the social justice warriors have solved the problem by inventing a third-gender toilet sign.
A couple of years ago, the Swedish language was introduced to a new personal pronoun, “hen“, to replace gender specific hon (she) and han (he). Officially it was said to be used when the gender of a person was unknown, but it was primarily about creating a third gender for those “who don’t identify with the two socially constructed genders ‘he’ and ‘she'”. Yes, in Sweden there are many who actually believe that a persons gender is not biological —it is even taught in universities.
Proving that this is not a question of linguistics, a museum in the small but historically significant town of Sigtuna, has now put up a sign on their public toilet with a man, a women, a person in a wheelchair and a ”hen” (and we’re not talking poultry here…). The sign was widely praised in the media and among the “cultural elite”.
The question remains though; what will become of those who identify themselves as not being human at all? Where will they be able to relieve themselves?
Source: swedishweekly.com
