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A long time ago I was asked by a friend my opinion of transgender people using their restroom that corresponds to their true gender (the one that does not correspond to their birth sex). My answer was this:
I don’t give a fuck who you are, I don’t wanna shit next to you. All bathrooms should be individual, floor to ceiling walls, so I can shit in peace.
The real ban should be on group shitting.
Counterpoint: the public communal toilets in Rome were important locations for grassroots political organizing.
(But yeah, going to European office buildings and getting a fully enclosed shitter was pretty nice.
Countercounterpoint: we have the internet now.
I just want us to fart freely. Maybe we would all be better people if we were not filled with hot air.
Counterpoint : the internet is mostly funneled through a very small number of companies run by regressive fuckheads, and can not be relied upon for free exchange of ideas that may endanger said regressive fuckheads.
I agree on ventilation though.
Countercounterpoint: while true that the media does meddle, it still allow us to connect with individuals from vast distances to discuss opinions that aren’t just localized, and often biased.
"your account has been banned for inciting violence"
Well there went my uprising.
Technically, you can also be kicked out of the bathroom… which is apparently where a bunch of dudes hang out—balls out, shooting the shit so to speak. Personally, it sounds a little homoerotic to me.
Sign me up!!
The bathroom doesn't have admins or cameras looming over you.
Apparently you don't really care ya horny little shit.
It’s a joke.
Yeah but that’s not it. That’s “feasibility” that won’t ever be feasible. Mixed with hate. Also, it needs to be more than government building, because what does that solve? Not much.
Let’s pass a law saying all publicly accessible bathrooms must be retrofitted or remodeled and until then, you can’t ban transgender people.
A man who identified himself as man.
That’s a man, so technically that’s not the right restroom anyway and would not happen under normal circumstances.
So, I’m going to assume you mean a transgender woman, in a woman’s restroom.
No I wouldn’t have a problem. Why would I? Pooping is pooping. Perhaps add more detail to the scenario and I can give you a better answer.