{"id":365174,"date":"2018-06-12T18:34:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T17:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/voyeurs-flock-to-newly-gender-neutral-swimming-pool-to-stare-at-naked-women\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T18:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T17:34:32","slug":"voyeurs-flock-to-newly-gender-neutral-swimming-pool-to-stare-at-naked-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/voyeurs-flock-to-newly-gender-neutral-swimming-pool-to-stare-at-naked-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyeurs Flock to Newly Gender Neutral Swimming Pool to Stare at Naked Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A programme at a Swedish open-air swimming bath in Malm\u00f6 that eliminated gender-separate areas to encourage transgender bathers has resulted\u00a0in men taking the opportunity to stare at naked women.<\/p>\n<p>The programme, called \u201cQueer Kallis\u201d, is held on the first Monday of the month at the Ribersborgs kallbadhus, an open-air bath in the heavily migrant populated city of Malm\u00f6.<\/p>\n<p>What organisers\u00a0soon found, however, was that while very few transgender people were making use of the programme, men and boys used it as an excuse to enter women\u2019s showers, changing rooms, and toilets,\u00a0<em>Aftonbladet<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aftonbladet.se\/nyheter\/a\/yvrWoa\/rev-konsgranserna--da-invaderade-mannen-blir-uttittade\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were in the showers, in the restrooms, in the locker rooms, and on the bathing bridges.\u00a0The place was invaded by men, not by transgenders from what I could see.\u00a0Everything felt incredibly unpleasant,\u201d said\u00a0Jeanette Larsson, a lecturer in diversity issues, who recently attended the open-air bath.<\/p>\n<p>According to Larsson, many women chose to simply leave the bath due to the presence of the men. While she did note some transgender individuals, she remarked that they were stared at and mocked by some of the men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be understood by anyone that it will be an open market for those who are only interested in looking at women\u2019s bodies,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The programme, which began on the 7th of May, was backed by\u00a0municipality councillor Hanna Thom\u00e9 of the Left Party and\u00a0Linda Hiltmann of the Feminist\u00a0Initiative party whose party leader Victoria Kawesa&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/sweden-voyeurs-flock-to-newly-gender-neutral-swimming-pool-to-stare-at-naked-women\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A programme at a Swedish open-air swimming bath in Malm\u00f6 that eliminated gender-separate areas to encourage transgender bathers has resulted\u00a0in men taking the opportunity to stare at naked women. The programme, called \u201cQueer Kallis\u201d, is held on the first Monday of the month at the Ribersborgs kallbadhus, an open-air bath in the heavily migrant populated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-365174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}