The McIver’s Ladies Baths Is An Oasis For All Women It was like a vision of heaven in there. I went for a swim and left quietly a few hours later, glowing. I felt so seamlessly accepted, so safe. It was one of my happiest days.
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The first time I went to McIver’s Ladies Baths in Sydney, I was ready for a fight.
It was Boxing Day 2016 and my new Australian passport had arrived on Christmas Eve, with gender marker ‘F’ for female. This was my first ever ID to indicate that I am a woman a federally issued document, recognised internationally. I still had a dick. Earlier I had asked in a trans women’s Facebook support group if anyone had been to McIver’s before. I remember reading a comment that said, “As long as you’re not waving it around doing helicopters, you’ll be fine.” So I went down to Coogee literally clutching my passport, as if I w