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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be perfectly okay with everybody, male and female, all just using unisex bathrooms.  I have a tween daughter, but she has a father and brothers, so an accidental glimpse of something isn't going to be a big deal.  However, I am struggling with how to explain the idea of transgenderism to her, more so than her brothers, because I am very uncomfortable with the gender stereotypes that are inherent in the idea that someone feels like a man or a woman on the inside.  What does that mean? It seems mostly cultural.   I don't want her to absorb the idea, one that was pushed on me as a young girl and young woman interested in a field of work that was not traditionally female (or any type of work at all, according to my family), that being a girl on the inside means that you like certain subjects at school, certain colors, certain types of books, or sports, etc.  [/quote]

A transgender person isn't necessarily gay. Just like Caitlyn Jenner who said she would continue to date women then went back on it a year later and said she would think of dating men well if she's attracted to women still then she'll be attracted to the women she's using the bathroom with and if she's pre-op well then that is where things would get weird.[/quote]
Right. So, you have people like Laverne Cox's character Sophia on OITNB, who was a straight man, and is now a lesbian. And you have people like Carmen Carrera, who was a gay man, and now is a straight woman.

Where you lost me was "things getting weird" when someone is attracted to someone else in the bathroom. Surely, that happens sometimes when people of the same birth gender use the bathroom. Is it awkward for gay men or lesbians? It's certainly something that would merit a conversation in a relationship whether a trans* person is pre- or post-op. [/quote]

If the tg person still has their penis and is attracted to and dating women and using the same bathroom whose to say a straight man wont enter the bathroom dressed as a woman to rape a woman? Rape is very common.[/quote]
I don't understand this argument, no matter how many times it's put out there. Rape is illegal, regardless of where it takes place. If a man is a rapist, he should be arrested. What is stopping him from doing so are laws against rape and other violence to human beings.

Non-violent transwomen, who are in the bathroom to pee in a stall =/= rapists.

Transwomen who are made to use a men's room do have violence done against them. [/quote]

+1000

This fear about trans women raping in the ladies room is so wildly off the mark. Trans people are far more likely to be the victims of crime than to commit crimes themselves.

And if a straight man plans to dress up as a woman with the intention of raping someone in the ladies restroom, well, we have a law for that. It's a law against rape. [/quote]

So will you be in the bathroom enforcing that law? Guys are creeps. In the Dc area rape happens daily. Lot of pervs out there.[/quote]

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