Yep, pretty tight race there!
Posted on 10/28/2006 8:57:05 PM PDT by Dan Evans
New York OKs crossdressers to use facilities of their choice.
If you happen to be passing through Grand Central Station and nature calls, you just might want to hold it until you get home, because, this week, officials with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority decided that transgendered people have the right to use the bathroom – men's or women's – of their choice on New York's subway system.
Helena Stone: "I'm a 24-hour woman."
The agreement was reached following a lawsuit filed by Helena Stone – formerly known as Henry McGuinness – who was arrested twice in 2005 and once earlier this year for disorderly conduct after using the women's restroom at Grand Central Station.
Stone, 70, who is a telephone technician for Verizon, worked regularly at the transit facility when the arrests happened.
A police officer allegedly called Stone "a freak, a weirdo and the ugliest woman in the world" and warned, "If I ever see you in the women's bathroom, I'm going to arrest you."
Stone, who claimed to be forced to use a cup after the arrests instead of a bathroom, filed a complaint with New York City's Human Rights Commission and became a cause célèbre with the sexual-minority community in the city.
"That's the only bathroom I use," Stone told a rally. "That's who I am."
The agreement reached by MTA is similar to a policy instituted by the Human Rights Commission for government and other public bathrooms in the city. MTA will pay Stone $2,000 in damages for legal fees, according to the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, which handled the case. MTA also agreed to conduct transgender-sensitivity training for employees.
"I'm thrilled with it," Stone said of the agreement.
Not all transit riders shared Stone's enthusiasm, however.
"I would not like that," Gloria David, a retiree from Connecticut told the New York Daily News. "I have nothing against 'gay' men or drag queens, but they can use the men's room. I just don't want to go to the bathroom next to a man."
Concern was expressed by another rider that sexual predators could now dress as women and lurk in women's restrooms.
For Rena Gantz, a 23-year-old college student, the settlement was a non-issue.
"It doesn't bother me because it is a reality," she said. "If they believe they are women, they should be treated as one."
And that suits Stone just fine.
"I'm a 24-hour woman," Stone declared. "I just feel like a woman and I like to wear women's clothes."
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But I don't know how to make it clickable.
Go to the plumbing set up for your plumbing.
He's gonna be found beaten to death in a bathroom stall in the near future.
The murder weapons? Handbags.
"Sensistivity training"= Re-education camp
Thanks much, I sent a private Freepmail.
The "Gay Bigendered Tranny Whatever" lobby really sets themselves back with crap like this. The gay men I know just laugh at the tranny-types (and even NAMBLA), which just sets their resentment level higher.
They have their eggs in one political basket, know it, and just have to ride it out with extremism.
Which is a shame, because there are some decent Log Cabins who sit square with the rest of us.
You ain't kiddin'.
Handbags... stilettos babe.
When I finally read the whole story, yes, "eeew" was exactly what I said.
Good call.
As long as the French soap is in the shape of a square right???
This is typical ditzy college thinking. We've got a petition going around now on my campus for 'safe bathrooms' for transgendered people. I want to know how many friggin' transgendered people are there? There can't possibly be enough to make the school take away money from, let me think, funding the libraries, science labs, or computer labs, to build additional bathrooms.
If a person has had the full operation, then I guess they need to come into the appropriate bathroom. But I don't want to see some guy w/a wig and a penis in my bathroom. Sorry. Call me insensitive.
I wonder what the university is going to do when some woman gets raped in a bathroom by a guy pretending to be transgendered?
Thanks Jaysun. I figured out the bold, italic, size
and photos, 
Any other tricks, especially active links like this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1667566/posts
would be great. Thanks
I think a part of being homosexual is feeling "victimized" by being so. So, as a result, they tend to congregate in urban areas, set up a "community", then laugh at each others' extreme behavior.
That one could call themselves "gay" and mean it is really an abuse of the language. Most I know are miserable and only use politics to lash out. The etiology I cannot speak for.
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