Posted on 11/18/2007 4:33:54 AM PST by Man50D
Students using the seventh-floor bathrooms at the University of Southern Maine's Glickman Family Library this week were in for a surprise when the standard symbols for men and women on the doors were covered with a sign announcing the facilities were now "designated as gender neutral."
With university approval, organizers for the 4th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, held Friday, erased all distinctions for restrooms at the Glickman meeting site, according to Mike Hein of the Christian Civic League of Maine.
"The USM library bathrooms are designed to accommodate several people simultaneously, and they have no exterior door locks," he said. "Men and women were seen entering and leaving the bathrooms freely, often together as groups, throughout the transgender event."
The sign on the doors read:
Gender Neutral Restroom
Friday, November 16, 2007 5:30-8:00 p.m.
To ensure that there are safe and accessible bathrooms available for all participants of the 4th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance event, these restrooms have been designated as gender neutral.
The University of Southern Maine strives to create and sustain a campus environment that supports and values all members of our community, including visitors. One aspect of creating a comfortable environment is providing safe, accessible and convenient restroom facilities. Many people may experience difficulty and inconvenience when required to use gender-specific restrooms, and the same holds true for others with attendants/caregivers of a different gender. Additionally, transgender individuals and those whose gender may not conform with societal stereotypes associated with their birth sex may be subject to harassment or violence when using male- or female-specific restrooms.
For these reasons, these bathrooms will temporarily be gender neutral. All other bathrooms in the Glickman Family Library will remain sex-segregated."
Gender-specific restrooms located on all lower levels – library floors 1 through 6.
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In my own home, men and women use the same facilities with no apparent issue, even the toilet seat controversy has never reared it's ugly head (people in this house apparently know to raise or lower it as needed).
Then again, I've seen all the huge lines at women's rooms at sporting events and such so maybe that's the reason for separate facilities. So the men can just get in and out and not have to wait in a long line with the women. I've never quite understood women standing in line to use the bathroom. I would have no patience for this whatsoever. That's when trees and empty paper cups come into play.
My blood runs full blown red male ... and here I am .. standing at the mirror, washing my hands .. and the town beauty flushes, comes out and stands beside me .. fixing her blouse, checking the cleavage, smiling ... lipstick .. or whatever ... and trust me ... I'm NOT rehearsing the sermon I heard in church Sunday, or trying to keep my mind focussed on the History test I'm taking in the next class .....
No sirree ... I'm lechering like a m-----------.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
They have that in the hospitals here in NYC but than there is only one toilet so you can lock the other person out until ready!
Why not just one some one seaters? Our library does that.
OK, that school is off our list. Thanks.
Envision the housekeeping crew drawing straws for the job of cleaning those bathrooms after the Transgender Day of Remembrance event. Eeesh.
I like the tranny bathroom at my work. It’s clean and almost never used.
I can hide in there for hours!!!!
Just to clarify. I forgot to state this type of attitude will spread to other public places where little kids will be using those facilities, hence my question about kids.
I see nothing wrong with it. We should have three options. Men, Women, and Perverts.
I guess soon we will have four bathrooms. One for men, one for females, one for families, and one for trans. We already have three so they figure another won’t make a difference. When you go to the malls they already have three bathrooms. Why families need one is beyond me. I think two should be sufficient. When they added the family bathroom it opened up questions for other groups to have their own bathrooms.
This ENDA legislation in Washington was amended by the Democrat leadership to leave out “transgendered” deliberately to avoid this mess and make sure it passed.
Its about time we had gender neutral bathrooms and locker rooms, too. Sarc. That was too hot for the Dems to handle and some gay activists were upset at what they did.
Schools in LA are already accomodating to this by saying it doesn’t matter who uses the bathrooms.
This should bring a whole new meaning to the friendly foot tapping under the stall wall! It will probably bring a new use to the baby changing table. Too funny and scary.
A unisex bathroom will be a haven for any would be rapists not to mention the perversion it will breed. Who would want their little kid see two people going at it in the bathroom?
Unisex bathrooms are used in Asia and Europe and they don’t have those probablems. Perhaps it could be that someone is in the bathroom at all times ready to give a towel after washing your hands. Oh and don’t forget to give a euro to the worker. Your reasoning is a scare tactic against getting something done about this. Of course as a guy I like the separate bathrooms because we get to get in and out in a very short time. The problem with women is that they communicate and take their time. lol.
At my undergrad university, as far back as the 70’s, the bathrooms in two large mostly-freshman dorms were co-ed bathrooms, each with 4 stalls, 4 sinks, typically arranged.
The only tricky part was the shower room. There was a “in-use” sign on the door that the user had to mark to designate male or female. I do remember that someone had devised a 3rd category, “Both”.
The effect of it all was odd and perhaps counterintuitive — it reinforced the “brother-sister” quality of the relationships, and it becamse unusual for anyone to be dating someone who lived on the same floor.
5 types..we will need 5 different types.
Members of the ROP will need their own of course.
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Don't forget the eunuchs. Why shouldn't they get their own bathrooms too?
HO, HO, HO.
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