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To: The Great Yazoo

Guess what they're up to? Just guess where this is coming from......
From another article about gender-neutral bathrooms...

>>>>>>start insanity<<<<<<<
On a quest for a restroom less gender specific

Political epiphanies can occur in unexpected places. For Riki Dennis, a 35-year-old humanities student who is transsexual, it was the women's room at a rest stop on Highway 101 north of Santa Barbara.

"The boyfriend hit me, even in mellow California," said Dennis, who was in the early stages of becoming female when she was assaulted by a stranger after using the women's room. "I said, 'Sir, I have no designs on your girlfriend,'" she explained. "I just want to use the bathroom."

Dennis, whose lowish voice is now the lone betrayal of her birth gender, is a foot soldier on a new political frontier: the campaign to establish gender-neutral bathrooms in public places.

>>>>>>>>>>>snip<<<<<<<<<<<

In the Bay Area, advocates of gender-neutral bathrooms are beginning to make themselves heard. Last month, they pressed the board of supervisors of Alameda County to adopt a resolution forbidding discrimination in public facilities, including restrooms, based on gender identity. Alameda County was the home of Eddie "Gwen" Araujo, a 17-year-old transgender high school student who was murdered in 2002.

"You can be sure that stalkers and peeping toms will take full advantage of this change," said Catherine Norman, 54, a substitute teacher from Fremont. She added, "Bathrooms are about biology, not perceived gender."

http://www.insidebayarea.com/bayarealiving/ci_2606873


26 posted on 03/15/2005 8:41:51 PM PST by Dashing Dasher (Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.)
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To: Dashing Dasher
Bathrooms are about biology, not perceived gender."

Ms. Norman simply has to get with the evolving standards! How dare she impose her narrow, bigoted, and (doubtless) faith-based worldview that stalkers and peeping toms have less than full human rights to pursue their happiness. Ms. Norman, you must learn to tolerate others, because our only unity is our diversity!
27 posted on 03/15/2005 8:51:09 PM PST by The Great Yazoo (The husbands of the talkative have a great reward hereafter.)
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To: Dashing Dasher

A couple weeks ago, I walked into the bathroom and there were girls changing in there....in the guy's bathroom in plain view! That was an interesting experience, needless to say, not one you see on a Christian college much since, well, girls do NOT use wing bathrooms in the male dorm and vice versa. You are supposed to use the guest bathroom in the lobby.

Gender-neutral bathrooms are just a bad idea.


40 posted on 03/15/2005 9:37:39 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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