“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”

  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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    Any guy that spends enough time skiing or snowboarding has seen a girl wearing a helmet and goggles use the mens room because there’s no line, and I’ve never seen anyone care.

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      In fact, I’ve faced at least three instances where women blocked the men’s room untill all the girls there finish their job. Like, I hate to point out, but men need to pee, and wtf is that supposed to mean?

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          I’m just not going to die on this hill, no way.

          Yeah, I think that’s the gist of the “who’s in the stall next to me” issue: it’s not by itself a hill worth dying on. Let them do their business, then they’ll clear out so I can do mine. I don’t give a damn where you shit or what organ you piss from, as long as you leave the place at least as clean as you found it.

          It’s just that some people are dragging the rest of us into a stupid war over it, so now we gotta fight the bigots while learning to navigate a minefield of understandably sore spots, handle the “one signal, multiple audiences” problem and and deal with friendly fire by people meaning just as well as we do while we’re both struggling to see the battle lines.

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      Rich Jeni did a whole bit about that in the eighties.

      “Soap and toilet paper for all my men!”