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Picasso artworks put in female toilet as part of art gallery response to court ruling (www.abc.net.au)

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In short: Tasmanian art gallery Mona has hung artworks by Pablo Picasso in a female toilet cubicle in response to a failed court bid to exclude men from a women-only art installation.

In April, a court ruling found Mona discriminated when it refused a New South Wales man entry to its Ladies Lounge.

What's next? Mona curator Kirsha Kaechele is appealing the discrimination ruling in the Supreme Court.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That would be good. Non binary was rare among the queer community when I was a teen. Already, friends have asked me to chat with their kids who are coming out. I don't have much to say, they're more onto it than I ever was. I was surprised by the number until you mentioned it's more common now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's plenty of people who think binary gender is just a phase humanity briefly went through. They think there'll be no such thing as men or women within two hundred years.

I can say with certainty that there are no binary babies, because babies don't have gender. Gender starts developing at 2-3, solidifies at 4, morphs to its adult form at puberty, and continues developing either until 25 or until death. There's no such thing as a baby boy or a baby girl, and it's barely even fair to call a toddler a boy or a girl. In a few generations, gendering babies will be seen as barbaric, the same way many people see circumcision or female genital mutilation today. Children will choose their own pronouns when they're old enough to talk, and it'll be they/them or it/its until then.