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In reply to the discussion: Allowing biological men to use women's restrooms? [View all]Shandris
(3,447 posts)I'm considering the progressive argument (as I see it), which is that we as people are equal and (should) have equal expectations of each other. In order for that to happen, EVERYONE -- myself included -- must go through some things that make us uncomfortable. This is one of them.
We can not continue to say that we support transgender people...when it's comfortable. I don't care if they're .0000000000000001% of the population. There is no actual safety in 'separate bathrooms' either; rather, it's simply a nod to the fact that as a general tendency, white people (as in, the people who made society in aggregate) like order and as such won't go into the 'wrong' bathroom. But anyone actually looking to commit a crime is already past stepping into the 'wrong' bathroom to begin with, so it's really yet another arbitrary separation. If it weren't for our Judeo-Christian background, there might not even be separate bathrooms in the first place(!).
So that's a bit of a more expansive explanation of why I (admittedly, somewhat reluctantly, but mostly because of old habits and beliefs) think that the only possible proper answer to this question is the elimination of 'wrong' bathrooms to begin with.