cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/179812
In the modern anti-transgender panic, several states have passed laws banning transgender people from restrooms consistent with their gender identity. Early bills focused primarily on K-12 schools, but the scope quickly expanded. Some states extended bans to even private colleges and universities. Others adopted sweeping “government building” prohibitions, barring transgender people from restrooms…
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Obvious solution: more gender neutral bathrooms.
And if anyone complains, just argue that it’s for the children. Mothers need to be able to take their young boys into a safe bathroom space, after all.
Mens and women’s bathrooms really don’t make sense most of the time.
That is a potential solution for people looking to resolve the situation. They don’t want to do that, they just want to effectively ban trans people from public spaces by making both bathroom options wrong/dangerous.
It goes beyond bathrooms. I’m currently abroad on an American passport which is close to expiring, and the US government is being a bitch about it. They just want us to die
Even more obvious solution: Let people use the bathroom.
One such expansion (Ohio, as of last year IIRC) includes not permitting new gender neutral bathrooms.
That’s because the cruelty is the point.
Just don’t call it gender neutral, call it “family” or “toilet room” put the sinks on the outside of the room.
In California, I’m pretty certain that all public restrooms that were single use had to be converted to gender neutral.
For them it does, twice. It’s part of the group identity and the more sperate the genders, the more gender mixing becomes a problem.