It is hard to see a reason to be so outraged about university’s trans policy

Why is Elijah Traven (‘Insane ideas such as men using female toilets are spreading fast,’ December 3) so outraged?

If you are biologically male with still the attendant desires and want a sneaky peek at the non or minimally clothed feminine form you do not need to go to all the bother of pretending you think you’re a woman.

Just go to the beach here on a sunny day or anywhere round the Med. and you will get a far better view than a furtive skelly round the ladies at Queens.

And if you genuinely think you are a woman the sights to be seen should be of little interest.

If of course you are only a woman in your own mind and have not the commitment to have the appropriate anatomical adjustments perhaps it might be the ladies who get a bit of an eyeful.

Interesting to hear what ladies from Queen’s University think about all this.

Elijah’s ending “Forces of unreason” sounds like a nod to to Thomas Paine’s Age of reason or the eponymous work by John Paul Sartre.

I think both deal with rather more philosophical, political and theistic thought than contemporary public convenience protocol.

Maybe because in the case of Paine there was no provision for bodily functions and it was the open street or nowhere.

And in the days of Sartre, and for years later as I can attest from experience, French public facilities were, to put it mildly, disgusting.

Davy Wight, Carrick

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