I really do not get this fixation with trans folk George, I mean for fucks sake "Walk on the wild side" was what, 72? The RHPS was late 70's and where I learned as a teen that gay people were real, actual humans at the 8th street playhouse, Greenwich village. Before that I had never met any and
thought all those oh so common derogatory terms were just words, as Yosemitte Sam said "Dems fightin words!" I was shocked to learn there were actually gay people that day, and became an ally then. Where have these people been, under a fucking rock?
Yes. Here in the UK we have been moving in that direction. When I was working for local government in 2012 our teams were replacing all M/F toilet blocks with single cubicles. This isn’t about gender, it’s about safety and dignity for everyone. Single cubicles reduce assault for EVERYONE ❤️
It's just a hunch but I have the feeling that a mix of genders in the one bathroom will make them safer overall for everyone as long as the cubicles are secure.
The best solutions are external single door bathrooms inside (like a row of disabled toilets) so it’s one person in a single space, and where it’s an outside block, it is one door per cubicle in the same arrangement, so you don’t have to share space with anyone if you don’t want to :)
Same. I'm from Ireland. Been to the US a few times. The lack of safety and privacy in their cubicles always made me feel uneasy as a male so I can only imagine what it's like for women and kids.
Literally had another kid try to crawl under a stall door one time when i was in there in early elementary school, which confirmed the fear i already had of school bathrooms. So yeah, Canada's approach is great. Just wonderful. 🙄
Hmmm... This comment could easily be read either way. "Get over yourself" could be addressed to the person sitting on the toilet, or to the person who wrote on the wall.
But it would have been nice if they had actually gotten it INTO THE BOWL! Why is a men's bathroom tiled? So they don't have to be specific with their aim.....
because the GOP give normal, everyday perverts (like myself) a BAD name. they want to control every aspect of our lives and they needed a scapegoat to justify taking away our rights.
It’s way past time for Gavin Newsom to take the trans out of Caltrans. Unforgivable that California has a multi-billion dollar agency just to do trans stuff. Get with the program, Gavin!
I watch 3 trans women help a girl in distress because her abusive bf was outside the bathroom door. They hid her in a stall and called the abuse hotline for her, someone came to pick her up so she could be safe. I couldn't sit with them as i had to get back to work.
As a 70 yr old white woman, I can honest say I have NEVER been accosted/attacked/sexually harassed or abused by a gay or trans person. But I can’t say the same for white heterosexual males.
And really, all over the world there are unisex public washrooms. It’s time some people get over themselves. Maybe try taking a trip out of their small town.
Transgender bathroom bans are not about women's safety. It's about the state controlling people's bodies. It won't stop with trans people. The bathroom bans are a threat to every person's bodily autonomy.
If you can survive a bathroom visit right after a 270 Pound factory worker who only eat sausages and beans and a smell that could make the paint on the walls melt. Just deal with it FFS
Tangent: In Mass, regulations for public restrooms now lead to them often bing single occupancy with a baby changing table, so the entire argument over gendered bathrooms is therefore moot
All these cowards need to k ow that they have been sharing bathrooms with trans people for their entire lives. Trans people aren’t new, they didn’t just get loaded into the human population like a game update, they have literally always been here.
Indeed, it's not trans people who are the problem, it's those who choose to assault, abuse and murder them, I consider that to be a far greater issue than people just living their lives...
Sachem Public Library 2001: A patron reports a woman in the ladies' room whose "shoes were pointed the wrong way".
It was my 63-year-old coworker Joyce, emptying her colostomy bag into the toilet because they made her go right back to work after colon surgery.
Cruelty is the point.
I don’t know what republicans think we’re doing in the bathroom. I’m a cis woman and all we do is pee in there and mind our own business and leave. Sometimes we share a tampon or tp.
Niagra Falls State Park has one large bathroom with a sign over it, All Welcome. The only people upset were men because now they have to stand in line too.
I’d like to ask trump voters nearing retirement age, was it worth losing 1/3 of your 401k & access to Social Security to ensure that some theoretical transgender student you’ve never met won’t be able to compete in a sport you don’t play at a school you don’t attend? 🧐
I don't need special treatments. I just want to use the women's restroom like all other women; it's the biggots that are making a big deal out of this just because they don't understand what being a transwoman is like.
Yeah, there you go. If you give up on taking what has been granted to women as easily as you gave up on this debate, the bigots would stop giving you attention. But you dont actually want that, do you?
If you still have your original anatomy, you can pee while standing and dont need to even use a public restroom. If you disfigured yourself with surgery, then a public restroom is not clean enough for your colonic sex wound.
And women just want too use the restroom without men with bad imaginations. Women are weaker than you be a man and protect them instead of invading their spaces.
Your trauma does not automatically take away a womens privacy because you're a twink. It sucks you dressed like a chick and got attacked by a male but that is specifically why women need their own spaces away from men and men who wish they were women. Sorry.
I find this argument rich considering the fact that usually it's trans women who actually risk getting assaulted when using the bathroom—esp in the men's. Many of us are just as much victims of SA as other women are. I've been harassed, cat-called, and sexually assaulted by men before. 1/4
You are asking us to sacrifice our safety in the name of your comfort. I use the women's room because it's about safety. A while ago I tried to use the men's room because I worried my presence in the women's room might make someone uncomfortable, & a man fucking groped me. 2/4
You dont find it ironic that you're telling me to be a grown ass woman (even tho im a man but for sake of argument) instead of telling yourself to be an almost grown ass man and deal with your own choices. And stop taking choices away from women.
I assumed you were a woman. Believe me I am and have been dealing with the consequences of my choices. Certainly more than you've probably been with yours. And you know what? I wouldn't choose any other way. Even after what I've been through.
Im a man, and you chose to take female hormones, so you take on the risk of weakening yourself to the point that a man has the advantage. Natural born women are weak from birth, not a choice.
Transitioning is a choice, true. But being trans isn't. I realized at a certain point that I could not keep living the way I was. I was on the verge of offing myself. So I started HRT out of necessity.
If I had a choice in the matter, I wouldn't be trans.
Social conventions based on safety & politeness are no longer to be enforced by law, but those who object to losing that exclusivity are ridiculed and told it is none of their business who negates their rights and claims to co-share their facilities?
How is this justified?
It feels like trans hate suddenly tripled over the past few years. I suppose it's just their rotten luck to be the latest scapegoat for the Republican Party to use to distract people from their latest billionaire tax cut.
I truly can't understand why anyone would hate someone for following who they think they are meant to be!!! Do I understand Transgender? No!! But I don't have to understand to respect someone!! I truly can tell you the Lord wants mostly for us to be who we are meant to be. Not to hate or judge!!!
your first mistake is assuming that the "good christians" of the GOP actually care what the bible says. the second is that they are SO insecure about their own sexuality that they have to punish others for not being as repressed as themselves. the 3rd is that this is ALL about control.
we all need to realize their transphobia stems from a misguided idea that god gives you points for being cruel to those you deem unworthy, that there is a tally of if you turned anyone towards this god,away from what they think is sinful. they are concerned w their eternal soul as portraits by fools
That’s not it. It’s because their men are terrified of finding trans women attractive. Trans porn is hugely popular in the reddest of regions in the US. Privately they fetishize us. Publicly, they don’t want to be called “gay” so they have a weird need to attack us. There is no hate like their love.
As a can’t poop anywhere but home person, the trans bathroom thing impacts me less than any. Still cool with my trans brothers and sisters. Just don’t touch my own bathroom at home please because I just don’t know you. Stranger butts. Yikes.
Somebody even tried to pick at the corner of the sticker to peel it off. Humanity is doomed as a species, so long as we cannot get along with our fellow humans.
The best part is the Republicunts have the gull to call Leftists snowflakes, yet they throw a hissy fit over the mere thought of having used the same toilet as a trans person, when they've definitely done so in the past without ever knowing it lmao.
Why is nobody talking about what happens when a trans man uses the women’s bathroom, as required by law?
This isn’t about keeping women safe, this is about bigots singling out a small marginalized community and persecuting them, just like they have done to so many other communities in the past
The Trump administration is focusing on trans- and intersex people to deflect attention away from what they're doing to law, financing, social security, education and the country.
We know it's to single them out and ability to inflict harm against them, that's why we keep fighting anti trans bills, why we are fighting for humans to be treated as humans. If i die fighting for my trans niblings then to Valhalla i go.
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This seriously needs to be made into a sticker - a LARGE sticker - so one can quickly place it on the inside of ALL bathroom doors next to the handle:)
Remembering when people were afraid to sit down in the stalls during the 80's because of the same kind of ignorance and misunderstanding that underpins the current trends in homophobia and transphobia.
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Some ppl would lose their shit when seeing the washrooms for anyone in some TO afterhours clubs
Your bathroom at home is Unisex.
Why should it matter anywhere else?
Seriously, what is wrong with people??
Trans people are no more dangerous than other people.
It was my 63-year-old coworker Joyce, emptying her colostomy bag into the toilet because they made her go right back to work after colon surgery.
Cruelty is the point.
Now that I’ve mentioned it on a public forum, all the transphobes are gonna be pissing themselves mid-flight on purpose.
Don't fucking make yourself out to be a victim of things you've never actually experienced.
I'm not gonna get fucking SA'd again because you're worried about a fake scenario. FUCK THAT.
So be a grown ass woman & protect yourself.
And I'm not even attracted to women so you can shut the fuck up abt or "bad imaginations" and whatever else.
If I had a choice in the matter, I wouldn't be trans.
How is this justified?
This isn’t about keeping women safe, this is about bigots singling out a small marginalized community and persecuting them, just like they have done to so many other communities in the past
This seriously needs to be made into a sticker - a LARGE sticker - so one can quickly place it on the inside of ALL bathroom doors next to the handle:)
A favorite song, "Aint Nobody's Business But My Own" should be in everyone's head.
Peace
Do they hold it until they get home?
Do they urinate in the bushes?
Do they protest in people's houses?
Do they even get invited to parties at all?