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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Family changing rooms are there for folks who want to group up in ways that might cut against locker room expectations of others.  Use them.  I don't want my 9yo DD under observation by your 11yo DS, and fixing that is up to OP, not me.[/quote]

But there are plenty of pools that don’t have them.  Our local pool has two paths from the front desk to the pool deck.  Through the men’s or through the women’s.  We have a young transgender teen boy in our family.  If he walks through the women’s side, in his suit he is open to the reaction here, but if he went the other way people would claim he is on the wrong side, and violence against trans men and boys in male spaces is a huge problem.  We send him through the men’s side with an adult or older teen male, but we’re lucky that our family composition allows that.  [/quote]

Another reason why there _need_ to be family changing rooms or locker areas.  Our pool doesn't have an all-gender entry either (the buildings are very old), but I wonder whether folks in a similar position could ask for a front desk member or lifeguard just to walk through with them?  Not an ideal solution, but maybe a bandaid.[/quote]

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