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Emerson makes restrooms gender-neutral
Boston Globe ^ | September 1, 2007 | Emily A. Canal

Posted on 09/02/2007 10:31:17 AM PDT by pjsbro

On the inside, a set of bathrooms at Emerson College looks like standard fare. On the outside, there are newfangled signs to ease the concerns of students who prefer not to signal that they are entering a men's or women's bathroom. The symbols are gender-neutral, a picture of a man and a woman. In response to students' pleas, Emerson has changed the signs that used to be aimed at a specific gender on 21 restrooms in campus buildings and one of the college's two dormitories. Emerson's changes, made in preparation for the upcoming school year, mirror moves by Tufts University and the University of Vermont, part of a small but growing number of universities modifying policies and facilities on behalf of transgender students. Several colleges have amended nondiscrimination policies to include gender identity, but student groups recently began pursuing more concrete changes, including gender-neutral housing, locker rooms, and bathrooms.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: genderneutral; highereducation; homosexualagenda; leftismoncampus; moralabsolutes
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1 posted on 09/02/2007 10:31:19 AM PDT by pjsbro
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To: pjsbro

You have got to be kidding me.


2 posted on 09/02/2007 10:33:35 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: pjsbro
Liberals in pursuit of polyperversity.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

3 posted on 09/02/2007 10:33:49 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: pjsbro

These people have become a self-parody. Really, they ARE funny.


4 posted on 09/02/2007 10:35:13 AM PDT by kjo
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I suspect it’s often difficult to distinguish the boys from the girls at that school anyway...


5 posted on 09/02/2007 10:35:53 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo ("Hidin' in a corner ...of New York City, lookin' down a .44 in West Virginy")
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To: pjsbro

Does this include coed group showers?


6 posted on 09/02/2007 10:36:12 AM PDT by Perdogg (Cheney for President 2008)
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To: pjsbro

At least you can now claim that you thought the person in the next stall was of the opposite sex!


7 posted on 09/02/2007 10:37:20 AM PDT by F-117A (Mr. Bush, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
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To: kjo

Larry Craig was born too soon...


8 posted on 09/02/2007 10:37:51 AM PDT by pjsbro
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To: pjsbro

A few slobby men could make them change that in a heart beat. Seats left up, skid marks, dribble on the floor (or seat), porn mags left behind, etc....


9 posted on 09/02/2007 10:37:53 AM PDT by misterrob (There's no difference between a knee jerk liberal and a knee jerk conservative.)
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To: pjsbro
Totally disgusting, and disrespectful of people who still retain a modicum of decency and modesty. Who wants to share a bathroom with a man, even if you are married to him, let alone complete strangers? Mystery, romance out the window!

In response to students' pleas...

Inmates, asylum, ect. Wonder if the majority if those "students" were men.

10 posted on 09/02/2007 10:39:58 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: popdonnelly

The airport at Jackson Hole, Wyo has one, too.


11 posted on 09/02/2007 10:40:21 AM PDT by the Real fifi
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Kind of like the very excellent restaurant Napi’s in Provincetown, MA (try the duck!) -

It has two bathrooms — one door is marked “Either” and the other is marked “Or.”

I should add that each bathroom only accommodates one person at a time. (OK — maybe two, Freeper smart asses.)

But it’s a really great restaurant, though.


12 posted on 09/02/2007 10:40:23 AM PDT by Maceman
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Let 'em deal with me eating a jalapeno, garlic and anchovie pizza with a pitcher of Budweiser every night!

Even the butchest lesbo will cry for her own bathroom, the homosexuals and metrosexuals alike will simply pass out....

13 posted on 09/02/2007 10:40:27 AM PDT by Cogadh na Sith (Gen X: I'll be the 'Junior Guy' until I'm 70.)
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To: Perdogg
Yes, according to the author, student groups recently began pursuing more concrete changes, including gender-neutral housing, locker rooms, and bathrooms
14 posted on 09/02/2007 10:41:01 AM PDT by pjsbro
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To: misterrob

Have you ever seen the stuff in a women’s restroom?


15 posted on 09/02/2007 10:41:16 AM PDT by alicewonders (Duncan Hunter. Seriously.)
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To: Perdogg

What don’t you read the articles????

The school’s Little Building dormitory now has one gender-neutral bathroom, including a bathtub and shower, on every floor.


16 posted on 09/02/2007 10:41:39 AM PDT by Shots
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Well,parents or legal guardians of Emerson students, now you know where your second mortgage money is going!/s


17 posted on 09/02/2007 10:42:57 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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Really, if this is the type of bathroom we have all over the place here, it is no big deal. The ones we have are single bathrooms, one person at a time, but they have the male/female sign on display. If, on the other hand, it is a large bathroom with stalls, urinals/troughs, condoms and tampons in machines....that won’t fly with me.


18 posted on 09/02/2007 10:43:36 AM PDT by Laz711 (The Barbarians are in Rome.........CLOSE THE BORDERS!!!)
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To: pjsbro

Assumed this was scrappleface....


19 posted on 09/02/2007 10:43:51 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: alicewonders

Can’t say that I have.

I can imagine though.....


20 posted on 09/02/2007 10:43:56 AM PDT by misterrob (There's no difference between a knee jerk liberal and a knee jerk conservative.)
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