‘You hurt his soul’: Mother’s 20-minute tirade of abuse at woman asking her son not to use women’s toilet renews bathroom gender debate

In a 20-minute tirade, the mother of a boy using a women’s toilet hysterically confronts a woman asking the boy to use the men’s restroom. The mother’s decision to take her 6-year-old son into the women’s toilets and following behaviour has outraged public opinion. — SCMP

A fierce debate about gender education has blown up in China after a woman who asked a six-year-old boy to leave the female toilets at a subway station was terrorised by his mother in a lengthy tirade caught on film.

The incident occurred in Harbin in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province on Jan 30.