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All adults can swim topless in City of Edmonton public pools
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'I think we just need to, as a society, stop sexualizing certain body parts of certain genders because we all have them,' diversity and inclusion consultant Marni Panas said, referring to chests and breasts.

emphasized this is about making sure the city is being fair and sticking to human rights laws.

“We’ve been covering what people think of as women’s bodies for a long time … recognizes that every body comes in different shapes and sizes and different genders, and I think this really creates an opportunity for anybody to use pools safely.”While the policy is about fairness, Bhasin-Singh acknowledges not everyone will support it.

The city hadn’t received any feedback about the topless rules before this week, Bhasin-Singh said, but some comments and questions have been trickling in after coverage in local media. The reaction has been mixed but mainly supportive.Article content However Panas said Canadians “tend to be a bit more prudish” about other peoples’ bodies and expectations around how others dress — an attitude that’s less prevalent in some European countries where nude beaches, for example, are more common.“This isn’t about breasts. This is about, at its root, about policing women’s bodies and what women wear … about shaming all kinds of bodies,” she said.

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