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Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground
Trans bathroom panics may seem trivial - a bad-faith media circus, a creepy fixation on where total strangers empty their body’s waste products - but public toilets have long been a key political battleground in an ongoing fight over whose bodies are worthy of dignity, writes Eleanor Penny, in the first of a new series on 'filth'.