Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Come On In! The Water’s Great.

Who doesn’t like to dip their toes or take a swim; well one swim club in Australia is having a trans swim night.
Exclusive Vic transgender swim session
Daily Mail
By Australian Associated Press
24 January 2018

A public Melbourne swimming pool is planning a private trans and gender diverse swim night, the first of its kind in Victoria.

The City of Darebin, one of three Melbourne councils which made headlines for changing the face of Australia Day in 2017, has announced plans for the February 24 event at the Reservoir Leisure Centre.

"To create a safe and welcoming environment, the event is only open to trans and gender-diverse people and their friends, partners and families," the council's community development director Katrina Knox told News Corp.
That is a really great idea!

I know that there are many trans people who are uncomfortable in bathing suits around non-trans people. Tiffany Club of New England at their First Event used to have a pool party one night and I used to love it, it gave a chance to go swimming in a safe environment.

However, (you know there has to be one caveat) I hope that they don’t limit swimming for trans people to a special night and ban trans people from swimming on other nights, that would be segregation.

1 comment:

  1. Segregation? You mean, like, different strokes for different folks? :-)

    Being trans is often a sink or swim proposition.

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