A BBC presenter and transgender activist has launched a “transgender visibility” campaign that could include transgender adults asking young children to accompany them to the bathroom.
Dr. Ronx Ikharia, who’s described as a “black, non-binary, transmasculine emergency doctor,” calls the campaign “Safe With Me.” Individuals are asked to wear badges to make their trans “allyship” visible. Then, trans-identifying people can ask people wearing the badges to accompany them to the bathroom or other sex-segregated space that does not match their sex, out of hopes they won’t be asked to leave.
“I have often been kicked out of toilets because people don’t know where to place me,” the activist said. “But when I’m with someone, it happens less.”
Ikharia wants the campaign to be “everywhere,” including in schools.
“I want this to be everywhere. At schools, in NHS (National Health Service) settings, at festivals, in shops,” she said. “The trans community deserve to feel safe! Not just protected by law but actively welcomed and this badge is one small way we can all help make that happen.”
Ikharia says she launched the campaign in light of the United Kingdom’s highest court ruling in April that the legal definition of “woman” is based on biology and does not include trans-identifying men who say they are women.
The British Supreme Court ruled that the meaning of “woman” in equality legislation is a “biological woman and biological sex,” and the “concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man,” The Daily Wire reported at the time.
“Toilets are one of the most dangerous of these spaces,” Ikharia said, following the ruling.
The campaign has drawn criticism, specifically for how it could endanger children. Helen Joyce, who’s the director of advocacy at the human rights charity Sex Matters, called the campaign a “safeguarding catastrophe.”
“Asking children to approach adult strangers and take responsibility for their safety in toilet facilities puts children at obvious and serious risk,” Joyce told The Telegraph. “As for adults wearing ‘safe with me’ badges that children are supposed to believe, it’s hard to think of a more irresponsible idea.”
Charlie Kirk had a similar critique, posting on X, “A British government employee wants adult biological men approaching school-age girls to ask them for accompaniment to a women’s bathroom, on the grounds that this makes them less likely to be kicked out of them for not being a real woman because, as the thinking goes, they have a child vouching for their gender.”
“You have no idea how lucky we are to have won last November,” he added.
A taxpayer-funded BBC employee in the UK is leading a campaign to distribute bright yellow badges to schoolchildren. These “ally” badges would invite transgender adult strangers to approach the children wearing them to ask the children to accompany them to a bathroom.
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