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[Lagslayer]

In most places, it is common to see certain facilities as gender segregated, like bathrooms and locker rooms. The concept of transgender creates conflict with the system.

What do you think should be done about it? Should there be additional transgender facilities alongside the male and female ones (and if so, how many)? Should everything just be unisex? Who should be the decider in all of this? Any additional thoughts?

[Levi]

I think they should just make a 3rd bigger "free for all" bathroom.  Put the diaper changing stations in it too.

Or if that is a pain, then just make 1 big bathroom with lots of stalls for everyone.  People would probably get used to it.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Lagslayer]

Oops, gonna edit my opening statement. Guess my thoughts got a little cluttered while typing it out. Yes, I do know the difference.

[Sinistar]

The problem I immediately see arising from such question is - how do you label "transgender bathroom" in the first place? A silly semantics maybe, but still, as this can be a volatile issue, I'd figure just agreeing on symbol/initial while trying not to offend anyone could be a pain. Or maybe not, maybe I'm overthinking this.

Personally - eh, I think in ideal world, gender-non-specific public bathrooms for everyone would be a way to go. After all, this is just a place we poop an pee in and everyone has to do it, regardless of gender, so why make it special (though I confess I kinda like this sort of duality because it's like a game to me but this is not a topic for this discussion).

Of course, as we do not live in ideal world... dunno. I'd say let them use either bathroom and be done with it, but I guess it's not that simple.

[Levi]

how do you label "transgender bathroom" in the first place? A silly semantics maybe, but still, as this can be a volatile issue, I'd figure just agreeing on symbol/initial while trying not to offend anyone could be a pain. Or maybe not, maybe I'm overthinking this.

Lots of good stuff. 

[smjjames]

Why not just go with unisex bathrooms? Of course though, if it's a private place or someplace small, then you could easily do unisex because it can just be one person in there at a time, but for public unisex with capacity larger than one (not counting moms with babies), you run into the problem of privacy. Of course though, people could just use the bathroom stall instead of the urinal.

Also, I don't see this thread sticking around too long.

[Lagslayer]

Also, I don't see this thread sticking around too long.

Might I ask why you think that?

[smjjames]

Also, I don't see this thread sticking around too long.

Might I ask why you think that?

Because threads on topics like this don't usually go too well. I'm not against it, just saying that the topic can get volatile.

[redwallzyl]

is there a reason they cant just use whichever bathroom corresponds with their pluming as it were?

[Levi]

is there a reason they cant just use whichever bathroom corresponds with their pluming as it were?

Sometimes this, depending on how friendly your area is:

[nenjin]

Is this something Americans care more about than Europeans, or does the same attitude exist in both places? I don't really see how anyone knows what your sexual identity is when you're using a stall, nor why it should matter other than people's perception of impropriety.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Redzephyr01]

In addition to the social consequences, sometimes there are legal ones. Florida, Texas, and Kentucky are all considering bills right now that would require transgender people to use only the bathroom of their biological sex.

Wait what why? Who the hell benefits from that? Why do people keep trying to make laws like this?

[Neonivek]

Why not just go with unisex bathrooms? Of course though, if it's a private place or someplace small, then you could easily do unisex because it can just be one person in there at a time, but for public unisex with capacity larger than one (not counting moms with babies), you run into the problem of privacy. Of course though, people could just use the bathroom stall instead of the urinal.

Also, I don't see this thread sticking around too long.

It isn't that bathrooms couldn't be unisex

It is that we could never get rid of Women's bathrooms.

Since the major arguments towards why women need "women only space" is:

1) Women need to be free from men and need their own space. Something they can only get in female only spaces.
2) Women need a space where they are protected from men, their words, and their eyes. Men generally harass women just by being near them (Male Gaze for example).
3) Men will be perverts and sexual harass women

At least those were the three arguments I got... and before you rag on me, NO not all three are from feminist sources... though I won't fill in which is which.