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In reply to the discussion: Why should someone who is transgender not use the facilities they identify with? [View all]mainer
(12,018 posts)90. Yeah, I agree. I don't care if they still have a penis.
I'm certainly not going to check. As long as they identify as female, and have made some attempt to look female, they can come into the women's restroom. I just don't want guys who look like guys coming in.
For as long as I can remember, I've had to escort my mother-in-law into public restrooms and stand guard outside her stall. She was so paranoid of being attacked that she wouldn't go into a public restroom alone. I suspect she was sexually abused sometime in her youth. If a man (who looked like a man) had come in, she would have been hysterical.
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Why should someone who is transgender not use the facilities they identify with? [View all]
uppityperson
Sep 2015
OP
Since it was hidden, few saw them and it wasn't something to complain about but more privately embar
uppityperson
Sep 2015
#47
When I had a buzz cut, jeans and flannel shirt covering my curves, should i have used the men's
uppityperson
Sep 2015
#20
The correct pronouns to use for a person is the pronouns that person wants you to use.
backscatter712
Sep 2015
#86
Am I a horrible person if I worry that creepy men could hang out in women's restrooms
Nye Bevan
Sep 2015
#38
Really? So everyone who walks into a bathroom must do so with medical documentation in hand?
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2015
#51
Perhaps the state would have an Official Genital Inspector to settle this question.
backscatter712
Sep 2015
#67
Who would be checking those papers and who do you think carries medical documentation of
uppityperson
Sep 2015
#59
Trans people aren't going to use the facilities of their "new" gender unless they are
MillennialDem
Sep 2015
#75
Yes and I know you understand this so I'm only pointing it out to those who don't know
MillennialDem
Sep 2015
#89
" How dare you force a trans person to have surgery to fit your narrative of what man and woman are"
uppityperson
Sep 2015
#87
Here's the thing: predators aren't going to care whether or not it's "legal".
winter is coming
Sep 2015
#85