Italy's only transgender member of parliament is fighting what he calls toilet "apartheid."

Reuters reports Vladimir Luxuria does not approve of a suggestion by a center-right lawmaker to create a third bathroom for transgender politicians.

Luxuria is the only such lawmaker in all of Europe.

He says in an interview with the Corriere della Sera daily, "I didn't expect politics to sink this low."

The 40-year-old says he was born Wladimiro Guadagno. However, he prefers women's bathrooms and would like to be referred to as a "she."

Luxuria says, "There are many difficult moments in the life of a transgender and even some embarrassing ones, like the use of public bathrooms. Maybe we go to the ladies' toilet because the men get embarrassed."