Texas Bathroom Bill Criminalizes the Transgender

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I have no fear of transexual people or most people in public restrooms. Once you are in that stall you shut everyone away anyway and then there's the handwash. I don't spend much time thinking about who is in the bathroom or hanging out in there but I suppose if you want to put on makeup or something like that, you would be in there longer.

I have no fear of transgender people in public toilets either. I would prefer transwomen use female toilets for their own safety. I wouldn't be taken aback at all to see transwomen in a female toilet.

"Safety from penises"?

I give up. Enjoy the thread.

If you want to put it that way, any guy can run into the lady's room and expose himself. So could any woman. The crime is in actually exposing oneself. You are not supposed to run into a public restroom and just start taking your clothes off just because you are in a public restroom unless you happen to be in the men's room. You have to respect the people in there and go into an area where they can't see your business, as in a bathroom stall, and shut the door.

Kentucky has a pending bill that trans people must use the restroom of their birth gender.

"The issue has been in the public eye since Louisville’s Atherton High School changed its policy last year to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their sexual identity. Since then, 16-year-old sophomore Christina Kelty has used a private, single-stall restroom because she said she is uncomfortable using the bathroom with a student who was born male. Others, she said, have decided not to use the bathroom at all while at school".

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/02/kent ... room-bill/

Coincidentally,

I just watched a news program on tv of a 14 year old FTM student that was bullied and felt uncomfortable using the restroom. He is sueing 4 different school districts claiming violation of "Sex Discrimination" and "Equal Protection" clauses.

he asserts:
- the teachers refused to use his male name and used his female name
- did not keep his information private
- bullied by students and teachers
- they did not provide a unisex bathroom, and he had to hold it all day
- he had to change schools four times to get away from the bullying

"... the federal government has filed this brief in support of the child's case - asking the court to prohibit sex discrimination under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause - signed by the United States Department of Education, the assistant attorney general, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade.

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/28191 ... r-bullying

When I was in school, I hated using the restroom while there not because I was transgender but because I just didn't like the idea of using the bathroom at school. It wasn't until I started drinking more water during the day that I finally got over my fear of public restrooms because I used to be pretty phobic about them.

So reading that high schoolers don't use the bathroom while at school isn't a shock to me because I never wanted to while I was there.

this idea that ciswomen are at risk of being assaulted by transwomen is analogous to the homophobic assumption by straight men that gay men would be likely to rape them. Transwomen want to use female facilities precisely because they want to have access to them in the context of the same facility and purpose as ciswomen. Not because they want to spy on ciswomen's privates! If that were the case then there would be legitimate argument to also ban lesbians from female toilets. Then they need protection from being openly identified and/or being physically assaulted by transphobic jerk guys who are more likely to hurt them.