Technical trouble? Of course not. But socially – all the time. Most people, for some reason, think that the toilet sex division is important. Try to enter the wrong door and you’ll see it by yourself. While men mostly don’t mind if a woman runs in man toilet, women can be really angry at men running into theirs.
Once, our classroom (early teens) had to get changed in a large, shared changing area for a swimming pool. One of those clingy volunteering mothers walked around, pointing out where we didn’t dry wel enough, touching, “helping” boys etc. But, she had two boys of her own and “there was nothing she hadn’t seen before”. Very uncomfortable.
Somehow I don’t think it would be accepted for me to walk into little girls changing saying “don’t worry, it’s nothing I haven’t seen before”.
Same for those cleaning ladies cleaning right behind me while taking a piss in a urinal. It feels weird.
While men mostly don’t mind if a woman runs in man toilet, women can be really angry at men running into theirs.
If that were the rationale, it would make no sense to rule that trans women must use the men’s toilet and trans men must use the women’s. That’s a recipe for exactly the discomfort you describe.
Technical trouble? Of course not. But socially – all the time. Most people, for some reason, think that the toilet sex division is important. Try to enter the wrong door and you’ll see it by yourself. While men mostly don’t mind if a woman runs in man toilet, women can be really angry at men running into theirs.
Why? I don’t know.
Once, our classroom (early teens) had to get changed in a large, shared changing area for a swimming pool. One of those clingy volunteering mothers walked around, pointing out where we didn’t dry wel enough, touching, “helping” boys etc. But, she had two boys of her own and “there was nothing she hadn’t seen before”. Very uncomfortable.
Somehow I don’t think it would be accepted for me to walk into little girls changing saying “don’t worry, it’s nothing I haven’t seen before”.
Same for those cleaning ladies cleaning right behind me while taking a piss in a urinal. It feels weird.
Oh well, we’re just men, right? So who cares?
If that were the rationale, it would make no sense to rule that trans women must use the men’s toilet and trans men must use the women’s. That’s a recipe for exactly the discomfort you describe.
Dingdingding, this is exactly why this shit is transphobic.