Friday, April 09, 2004

LGBTQ Toilets

I was marking up some drawings for a new residence village at a liberal northeastern university the other day. Examining some toilet details, I discivered that someone had placed a toilet paper holder next to a urinal.

At this point, the smug wise-guy in me took over, and I asked the project manager what female-right-out-of-college intern had been in charge of locating toilet accessories, as clearly no man uses toilet paper at a urinal.

It turns out, however, that it is I that is the rube. The public restroom in question, which contains two toilet stalls and the aforementioned urinal stall, is not a men's room. Neither, it seems, is it a women's room. It is in fact, a gender neutral room! The idea is that transgendered, transexual, and "gender questioning" individuals need a separate toilet facility so that they don't need to interract with us heathen heterosexuals!

What do we do when the transexuals decide they don't want to share a bathroom with the transgendered, who are in turn looking to avoid the questioning? And how did the freewheeling, liberal, queer people become so uptight over individual bathroom rights? With Muslim fundamentalists seeking to destroy our very civilization, it is stupefying the kind of "social problems" our fellow citizens seek to address.

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