Ask the Transperson

[xoxoxoBruce]

Um, Dr Dana, you're hardly a normal person.
Aren't the unisex toilets one at a time?

[Sundae]

Cubicles are one at a time, unless you're in Cinderella Rockafellas in Dunstable at 02.00....
But the actual toilets are unisex. Unless you are an actual preevert then the most exciting thing you get to see is someone washing their nekkid hands.

Many places with unisex toilets have the same sort of door-free entry as swimming pool changing rooms. You have to go round the corner so there's no direct line of sight but no germy door either.

[Clodfobble]

"Family" restrooms, as a third option in addition to the standard men's & women's, are also becoming more popular. Most of the time they are single-use, in a room big enough for a stroller and a bench.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, I've seem them, they usually have a baby changing facility. Mom and Dad can both go while handing the kids back and forth.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The future looks good, Pam...

[xoxoxoBruce]

A new book.

As transgender people strive to gain more acceptance and legal protections, they will soon have a hefty new resource to assist them — a 672-page book, written by scores of transgender contributors, that encompasses social history, gender politics and wide-ranging advice on health, law, relationships and many other matters.

Encyclopedic in scope, conversational in tone, and candid about complex sexual issues, the Oxford University Press book being released in mid-May is titled "Trans Bodies, Trans Selves" — a deliberate echo of a pioneering feminist health-resource book, "Our Bodies, Ourselves" that appeared more than 40 years ago.

Aside
At the link above is a picture of three of the contributors, Jack Pula, chairperson of the transgender committee of the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists; Tiq Milan, a media strategist at GLAAD, and Cecilia Gentili, a program coordinator and consultant on transgender issues.
Why the fuck is Gentili making that stupid duck face? It really makes me doubt her ability and intelligence.

[Pamela]

Too much lip plumper!

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Pamela

As for perverts in a dress, the usual laws against assault and rape and such still apply, no?

Originally Posted by Pamela

I do believe there are laws against peeping, too.

Yes, and they're obviously working. No one's been raped in, what, 15 minutes now?[/sarcasm]

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yo Pam, is this legit?

[DanaC]

There is a strand of feminism that is disturbingly anti-trans.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Really, must be that long hair leaves loose unruly strands, thanks Dana.

[Pamela]

There really is a militant feminist sect out there that basically hates on us late bloomers. They are gadflies, really. I am more nervous about the Christians. The Baptists recently officially decided that we as a group are Bad People.

I find that there are a few dangerous people who use Church doctrine as a shield to excuse their own violent urges. I had to fight off an attempt to injure me by two people in a pickup truck (with the fish emblem and Christian bumper stickers) who tried to ram me and force me off the road. Luckily, I am a far better driver than they were and evaded them. Cause, you know, Jesus hates trannies.

[DanaC]

I find that there are a few dangerous people who use Church doctrine as a shield to excuse their own violent urges. I had to fight off an attempt to injure me by two people in a pickup truck (with the fish emblem and Christian bumper stickers) who tried to ram me and force me off the road. Luckily, I am a far better driver than they were and evaded them. Cause, you know, Jesus hates trannies.

Fucking bastards.

And ridiculous too, cus every picture I've ever seen of Jesus has him in a dress :p

The militant feminists who take issue with trans women are a pain in the arse, but they're highly unlikely to beat anybody up.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by DanaC

The militant feminists who take issue with trans women are a pain in the arse, but they're highly unlikely to beat anybody up.

Granted. But there's more than one way to damage someone.

[DanaC]

Oh, I don't doubt it. Not the least of which is making it more difficult for trans women to participate in feminist activism and draw on the support of other women.