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[Flying Dice]

Yep. Biding time 'round here, mostly.

[Yoink]

Do we really need a new thread on this topic every other day?

[Graknorke]

How many toilet threads do we have?

Anyway, there's a lot of reasons why unisex toilets aren't a common thing. Most of them have been covered in the thread. I can't see it happening widespread any time soon.

[Neonivek]

I have never in my life seen a unisex bathroom that had more than one toilet and sink.

[Orange Wizard]

How many toilet threads do we have?

I made one. It's sunk to the depths of the archives now, thank heavens.

[LordBucket]

Should there be additional transgender facilities

Any additional thoughts?

I don't think it's reasonable to demand that businesses overcome the cost and logistics hurdles to add a third facility to accomodate an estimated point three percent of the population. This is a problem that just isn't important enough to require legislation. Let people figure it out for themselves.

[mainiac]

That's %.3 self identified.  I would say the number is probably higher then that just going on response bias alone.

Not that your point is challenged by it being .6%.  I just enjoy nitpicking.

[Orange Wizard]

It's more like 1% in NZ AFAIK, but we don't have any official records of the topic, so I have no idea how accurate that is.

[Truean]

"Whole world's going to hell and nobody has any real answers? Time for a scapegoat, where are the gays and whoever...." (sigh) Really? Again? Sad. Unnecessary suffering.

[mainiac]

Some people can be very accepting.  If you can find a loving relationship with one person who understands your gender identity then the rest of the world wont seem to matter too much.

[Neonivek]

Truean I think you need to talk to friendly people who share in your experiences. (Friendly being important, you aren't there to be in a support group)

I know it helped me for... other things... that I won't get into here.

Nothing like feeling normal and accepted to remind you to feel good about yourself.

[Sinistar]

Truean: I'd say pack your things and go to Europe, at first opportunity. But that's just me being Euro-lover.

Other than that, what mainiac and Neonivek said.

[Leafsnail]

The actual solution is to let transgender people use the appropriate bathrooms without freaking out over it for no reason.  Trying to appease bigots with bizarre middle ground suggestions is a fruitless endeavor.

[Phmcw]

I do agree. Seriously, no pervert will gain anything from using "I'm sudently transgender, that's why I was in the bathroom peeping" as an excuse.
The cops aren't frobidden from using common sense, and if they are those laws won't fix anything.

Beside, there is no law about bathroom anyway.

[alexandertnt]

I think one of the main problems is that a non-insignificant number of people don't see transgendered people as being a "true" representation of their gender, so you get people who become all territorial when they see a "man" (trans women) in the women bathroom, or vice versa, and they don't think they belong in their room.

IMO the best solution is unisex bathrooms, because it stops bathrooms from becoming rooms "for only us", and just becomes "a bathroom".