“The laws that still regulate many of our public toilets are
simultaneously very old and very new: old in that they were created in
an era scarcely recognizable to a modern American, and yet new in that
the practice of sex-segregated pooping and peeing as a matter of course
is scarcely more than a century old, a tiny fraction of human history.“
It’s time to end the right-wing myths about the so-called “dangers” of accommodating transgender students. They’ve never been true, and they only make it harder to create safe and welcoming school environments for ALL kids.
it strikes me that a thing people fail to realize is the immense trauma that a lack of gender neutral bathrooms imposes onto non binary folks or those of us who are trans but do not “pass” by societies standards
when I’m wearing a dress but clearly not being “read” as a cis woman, having to use a restroom is a seriously upsetting ordeal because its a choice of risking being called a faggot and being assaulted or risking being yelled at and in some places having the police called. Thats not a decision anyone should have to make, but I have to make it multiple times daily.
And beyond the risks with picking a restroom, their is a public disclosure that occurs when I pick one or the other, because if I pick the mens then others who see me enter it automatically assume something about me and vice versa. After enough times getting yelled at, side eyed and told to get out, it becomes a real trauma.
Brae Carnes, a transgender woman in Canada is posting photos of herself in men’s toilets to protest a proposed law that would make it illegal for trans women to use women’s bathrooms.
Carnes writes:
“[Conservative Canadian Senator] Donald Plett put me here! Revoke the amendment to bill C-279 which will make it illegal for trans women like me to use the women’s washroom.”In a post on Facebook she says:
“As a trans woman I’m not even safe from discrimination at the pub. What’s going to happen if I’m forced into a men’s change-room?”
Gay Star News has more. See also The Independent.
Photo via Brae Carnes on Facebook
Wayne Maines was in a meeting when he got the call. His daughter, a transgender teenager who had been fighting the state of Maine for years over her right to use the girls’ bathroom at school, had finally won. “I just broke down right then …
