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University to Offer ‘Gender-Open’ Restrooms
College Fix ^ | July 30, 2014 | Dominic Lynch

Posted on 07/30/2014 5:33:56 AM PDT by Zakeet

Northwestern University will offer “gender-open restrooms” to its students this fall.

“We are trying to be responsive to the needs of all of our students and to be inclusive,” campus spokesman Bob Rowley said in an email to The College Fix. “This is becoming a common occurrence on campuses across the U.S.”

At Northwestern, the two sex-segregated bathrooms to be changed will simply have their front door placards replaced to reflect the transition – no major renovations are planned. The bathrooms are located on the third floor of the university’s main building that serves as the campus hub.

Northwestern joins the estimated 150 campuses across the nation that now offer some sort of gender-open restrooms, also called gender-neutral, unisex, or all-gender bathrooms, according to a tally by the LGTBQ group Stonewall at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

But while advocates convey them as mostly “single-stall, lockable restrooms available to people of all genders,” it’s clear many are also sex-segregated bathrooms converted to open-gender ones, as is the case at Northwestern.

The concern among some female students who now must share restrooms with anatomically male students is apparently not significant enough to put the brakes on these transitions.

“We received overwhelmingly positive information, and so we went with it,” Devin Moss, the director of Northwestern’s LGBTQ Resource Center, told the Daily Northwestern. “We didn’t really get any major concerns.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: absolutemorals; gay; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes
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A sign of the times in the Windy City ...

1 posted on 07/30/2014 5:33:56 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Since when does being handicapped have anything to do with gender?

This is the most ridiculous sociocultural time in history.


2 posted on 07/30/2014 5:36:15 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Zakeet

Wait a minute. They have a wheelchair on that sign!!!! Does that mean they think that non-traditional gender-identification is a disability???????? Or are they saying that people with paraplegia are simply self-identifying as such???? Quick, someone call the PC Police!!!!


3 posted on 07/30/2014 5:38:57 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Zakeet

This will likely be the sexual violence equivalent of “Gun Free Zones” for rapists and psychos. Cool.


4 posted on 07/30/2014 5:39:19 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Zakeet

I hope they don’t have urinals because they are discriminatory.


5 posted on 07/30/2014 5:44:19 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Zakeet

What if your "gender expression" is that you are a peeping Tom who gets off on watching naked women pee?

7 posted on 07/30/2014 5:44:44 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Zakeet

Does Northwestern really think this will appease the half woman-half man crowd? They won’t be satisfied until all restrooms on campus are “Gender Open”. Would love to see a camera set up outside the restroom to see who goes in. I would venture a guess that very few if any “real women” go into this restroom. Wait until an assault happens in there and see the lawsuits that arise. Gonna be fun watching.


8 posted on 07/30/2014 5:47:30 AM PDT by ImNotLying
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Installing rape rooms on campuses! As if the mixed-sex dorms weren’t enough...


9 posted on 07/30/2014 5:51:54 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Zakeet

and the first time some woman gets raped....?


10 posted on 07/30/2014 5:51:56 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Zakeet

Lawsuit heaven. Litigation attorneys everywhere applaud this move.


11 posted on 07/30/2014 5:52:18 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Zakeet
To simplify this rush towards "gender diversity" - just make them like this....


12 posted on 07/30/2014 5:58:39 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Truth29

Tirin Kot, a multi-national base in Afghanistan run alternately by the Dutch, then the Aussies and finally by the US had non-sex specific toilet and shower facilities, as I saw, they naturally self-segregated. The women frequented their own self claimed toilet and shower units and the men did as well.

The wretches who impose their non-sexual specific facilities are merely acting on their own lack of identification as men and as women. They are not men nor are they women, they are delusional, not insane, yet, but they are well down the path towards it.


13 posted on 07/30/2014 6:01:44 AM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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To: Zakeet

The government is a bunch of a****. They should all be canned....and flushed.


14 posted on 07/30/2014 6:08:25 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Zakeet

sexual harassment claim generators. ‘he looked at me’!


15 posted on 07/30/2014 6:11:51 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: F15Eagle

More than half.


16 posted on 07/30/2014 6:20:09 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Zakeet

In other words, a second men’s room.


17 posted on 07/30/2014 6:21:01 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Zakeet; All

Oh how fun...you can walk in on a hottie (or some great big nasty Rosie O’Donnell look alike) with her wrinkled up face taking a grumpy...Nice...very nice.

So in addition to common sense, modesty is dead as well? Will the stupid never end?!?


18 posted on 07/30/2014 6:25:20 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: Bubba_Leroy
"What if your "gender expression" is that you are a peeping Tom who gets off on watching naked women pee?"

=================================>

I'm thinking women could be peeping Tomasinas.

I bet a lot of men (not) want to display their male units to gawking women.

Cause, you know, women are going to look and start comparing....heh...

19 posted on 07/30/2014 6:26:40 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period.)
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To: the anti-mahdi
"....self-segregated...."

------------------------------------> Makes sense!

20 posted on 07/30/2014 6:28:58 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period.)
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