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#77 Mar 10 2013 at 1:13 AM Rating: Good
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I imagine that understanding is the property owner's discretion.
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If that's the best response you can come up with, you have a long road ahead of ya.

Have i misunderstood? Your argument appears to be that if the law doesn't recognize someone for who they are, then no one else should either.

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Let's make gays use the wrong bathroom too.

Homosexual males use the men's room just as straight men use the men's room, homosexual females use the ladies room just as straight females use the ladies room. Pretty cut & dry.
That's not what you seem to be arguing. Correct me if i'm wrong, but you have been arguing that certain men should use the women's bathroom, and certain women should use the men's bathroom. No?

Maybe this is all just a big misunderstanding. I'd love for that to be the case. let's clear it up if so.

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If she isn't doing anything wrong, i see no reason to doubt her.
But if they are lying then they are doing something wrong.
Yes, of course, but I think you will find this happens so rarely that it's absurd to assume someone going into a particular bathroom is doing something wrong based only on their looks, especially if when questioned they say they are trans.

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Have i misunderstood? Your argument appears to be that if the law doesn't recognize someone for who they are, then no one else should either.

If the law doesn't recognize them as a woman, a private business shouldn't be under any onus to do so either. Should they decide to do so, that's fine but there's no obligation.

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you have been arguing that certain men should use the women's bathroom, and certain women should use the men's bathroom. No?

More than anything, I was arguing that there should be a stricter standard than the originally mentioned "Let them use whatever bathroom they want". Again, since there's no legislation setting the standards, I'd think that "Go to the bathroom that matches your driver's license" is a fair and impartial rule for a private manager to use.
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#80 Mar 10 2013 at 1:27 AM Rating: Decent
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Yes, of course, but I think you will find this happens so rarely that it's absurd to assume someone going into a particular bathroom is doing something wrong based only on their looks, especially if when questioned they say they are trans.
Is your argument that since it rarely occurs we should simply ignore it? Because, you know that it's pretty rare that there is an issue with how things currently are.
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Yes, of course, but I think you will find this happens so rarely that it's absurd to assume someone going into a particular bathroom is doing something wrong based only on their looks, especially if when questioned they say they are trans.
Is your argument that since it rarely occurs we should simply ignore it? Because, you know that it's pretty rare that there is an issue with how things currently are.

No, my argument is that since it rarely occurs you should not just assume everyone is lying without any reason to believe so. If it was happening left and right, it would make sense to be cautious. But it's not. It almost never happens.

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Again, since there's no legislation setting the standards, I'd think that "Go to the bathroom that matches your driver's license" is a fair and impartial rule for a private manager to use.
How is blatant discrimination fair?

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#82 Mar 10 2013 at 1:46 AM Rating: Default
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What are you arguing for here Joph? A One Rule For Everyone, and damn the consequences when humans are too diverse to not have a minority terrorised or completely squashed by the One Rule? It's not so hard to make the right exceptions. Deaf kids get to use computer and closed circuit equipment in the classroom. Children with learning disabilities of every kind get (or should get) extra help in the way of more attention, their own aide, or their own special classes.


Do you have any scenarios that don't involve disabilities?

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You'd need to make an argument for how it's discriminatory.
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You'd need to make an argument for how it's discriminatory.

Every other woman is allowed in the women's bathrooms, and without having to show ID. So either they profile people they don't like and demand ID (which they may not have, or they may be unable to get with the appropriate gender marker because our government (and almost all others) also discriminates against us), or they check ID of everyone (lol), and still discriminate because they know trans people cannot easily get appropriate ID.

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Every other woman is allowed in the women's bathrooms, and without having to show ID.

I never said they had to show ID to enter. I said they were expected to use the restroom matching their legally recognized gender.
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Which still boils down to every other woman is allowed in the women's bathroom except those who someone doesn't like.
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Generally speaking, public restrooms aren't court rooms. And property owners have multiple interests in ensuring that the correct people are entering the correct facilities before a problem arises rather than waiting for someone to act "guilty".

Within reasonable suspicion. I can't think of a restaurant that checks customers licenses before allowing them to enter a restroom, so clearly establishments don't see enough cause to parse their poopers preemptively.

A trans-looking individual is not reasonable suspicion. The reasonable person standard is widely accepted in law, and so I don't see why it can't be used as the standard here.
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Generally speaking, public restrooms aren't court rooms. And property owners have multiple interests in ensuring that the correct people are entering the correct facilities before a problem arises rather than waiting for someone to act "guilty".

Within reasonable suspicion. I can't think of a restaurant that checks customers licenses before allowing them to enter a restroom, so clearly establishments don't see enough cause to parse their poopers preemptively.

A trans-looking individual is not reasonable suspicion. The reasonable person standard is widely accepted in law, and so I don't see why it can't be used as the standard here.


That's my take on this as well. I honestly don't see it being a huge issue, particularly once social expectations have shifted to actually include trans peoples. Right now, social pressure is against them both ways--if a trans woman is trying to live as a woman, men don't want her in their restroom, and if a trans man is trying to live as a man, women don't want her in their restroom. This is, of course, assuming care about the gender barriers that are in place.

Honestly, I just don't see why it would be an issue. I get why a bar or restaurant owner would prefer a system that stops problems before they begin. I also don't think our system does that now. Nor is there any way I can think of that stops potential issues, before we even add trans peoples back into the mix.

It almost seems far better, to me, to have a socially agreed upon standard for using restrooms. I can't help but feel that the end result would be a net drop in issues. And I can absolutely be wrong here--this is a gut feeling. I have no objective evidence one way or the other. But if trans people aren't welcome in either bathroom right now, in theory it can only get better if there's a system in place that establishes their welcome to one or the other. That's my take on it at least.

There are always going to be creeps doing their creeper things. You deal with them as you've always dealt with them. If someone has a better idea on how to stop that, I'm all ears. I don't. And I don't think using something that is already an issue actually helps.

And Joph, you're right--I should have been a lot more clear in what I meant by everyone go where they want. I should have said everyone should go to where they feel most comfortable, and from there you rely on social boundaries to protect the people inside. I have difficulty imaging that a significant population of new deviants is going to emerge by allowing for overlap in the gender domains that bathrooms serve. That's all I meant by the peepers gonna peep comment. If they'd be willing to peep in this new context, I seriously doubt they're somehow less willing to peep now. To the best of my knowledge, peeping behaviors primarily stem from social issues and anxieties when dealing with the opposite gender. You probably aren't going to just brazenly walk into a domain specified for the opposite gender, you're going to sneak in.
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#89 Mar 10 2013 at 7:03 AM Rating: Decent
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Rachel9 wrote:
How is blatant discrimination fair?


Because, by definition, there is nothing inherently wrong with discrimination. Society has simply given it a negative connotation. Your question should be "Why is this discrimination UNFAIR?"..

Edited, Mar 10th 2013 3:05pm by Almalieque
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How is blatant discrimination fair?


Because, by definition, there is nothing inherently wrong with discrimination. Society has simply given it a negative connotation. Your question should be "Why is this discrimination UNFAIR?".
I think the "negative" in the unsaid "How is blatant negative discrimination fair?" was fairly obvious there.
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There are buildings where it's understood that the gays are in the "Mens" and the male-to-female trans are in the "Womens". There are less frequent buildings where it's understood that the gays are in with the "Women's".

I've never been in a public building where this was de facto "understood". I imagine in a private office setting people would make whatever allowances they need to but it's not as though there's some universal standard in public settings.

So is my part of Australia living in a bubble, or is your part of America? What IS this Western difficulty with transgendered people? The only place with a good argument to discriminate against transgendered women is in sport, and if the transgendered woman was lucky enough to start the hormonal medications in adolescence, then not even then.
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Every other woman is allowed in the women's bathrooms, and without having to show ID.


I never said they had to show ID to enter. I said they were expected to use the restroom matching their legally recognized gender.
Good Grief. The law hasn't caught up with reality, and you want to insist on a technical law that doesn't remotely practically work?. You going to dob in a lovey dovey happy 19 year old and 17 year old couple for statutory rape? It's useful to have statutory rape on the books to cover coersive relationships. It's useful to broadly segregate men and women in toilets. But it's neither fair nor practical to insist on a slavish adherence to old fashioned legal definitions of gender status. Trans people are such a small minority. It's not like hoards are going to swap toilets.

But trans people are a growing percentage of Western populations, because of all the Endocrine Disruptors floating around our urban and farming environments now.

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I've never been in a public building where this was de facto "understood". I imagine in a private office setting people would make whatever allowances they need to but it's not as though there's some universal standard in public settings.

Eliminate gender based bathrooms, problem solved. My home doesn't have gender based bathrooms, yet somehow women manage to use them without fainting. Is there some non Victorian reason we have segregated bathrooms for genders? Is the fear that some women will have to defecate in a completely private stall then see..."A MAN!" while washing her hands. Or is that women, being made of tissue paper and fear, could be easily attacked by the ever present stranger rapist who at all times lurks in the shadows if he was allowed access to the place where they ****?

Talk about manufactured problems.
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Aripyanfar wrote:
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How is blatant discrimination fair?


Because, by definition, there is nothing inherently wrong with discrimination. Society has simply given it a negative connotation. Your question should be "Why is this discrimination UNFAIR?".
I think the "negative" in the unsaid "How is blatant negative discrimination fair?" was fairly obvious there.


If you're trying to prove a point, then words need to be used correctly. There is no assumption because "How is blatant discrimination fair" is a completely different question from "How is this particular discrimination fair". The first question insinuates that discrimination in itself isn't fair, hence the term "blatant".

While you may very well be right, there is no way of knowing without explicitly stating your question as such.

P.S.Where is all of this defensive talk when I'm being attacked for grammatical errors?
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I wasn't trying to prove a point, i was asking a question. It also wasn't just a random question, it was in response to something, which i quoted, which should have given appropriate context. I apologize if i was unclear though.

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If you're trying to prove a point, then words need to be used correctly.
I wasn't trying to prove a point, i was asking a question. It also wasn't just a random question, it was in response to something, which i quoted. I apologize if i was unclear though.


Does your question support a point or are you just asking questions? In any case, my answer is still valid. Discrimination, blatant or not, doesn't inherently mean "unfair". So, therefore, "blatant discrimination", i.e. handicap spots, can be very fair.
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Generally speaking, public restrooms aren't court rooms. And property owners have multiple interests in ensuring that the correct people are entering the correct facilities before a problem arises rather than waiting for someone to act "guilty".
Within reasonable suspicion. I can't think of a restaurant that checks customers licenses before allowing them to enter a restroom, so clearly establishments don't see enough cause to parse their poopers preemptively.

As I said, no one is calling for ID checks. However, if someone was to say "Hey, that person there looks inappropriate for the restroom", the manager should handle it the same as they would anyone else. Which would mean that boys get kicked out of the girl's room (and likely removed from the property) and vice versa. Rachel was saying that even a rule designating bathrooms for their respective (legal) gender was "proving them guilty" of inappropriate behavior.

The question isn't: "What can we do to stop this wave of trans people using the wrong restroom?" but rather "Which restroom should owners reasonably expect their patrons to use?" Designating them by legally recognized gender is the most practical solution. "Enforcement" of the rules, such as it is, is another matter.
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So is my part of Australia living in a bubble, or is your part of America?

*Shrug* Who knows? Who cares? Whining about how wrong America is for having boys rooms and girls rooms and expecting people to use them based on whether they have a ***** or ****** isn't going to address the overall issue.
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you want to insist on a technical law that doesn't remotely practically work?

I dare say that categorizing people on gender works the vast, vast, vast majority of the time.
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Eliminate gender based bathrooms, problem solved.

Wave your magic wand and make it happen. I'll be over here, not holding my breath.

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Which would mean that boys get kicked out of the girl's room
Yes, that seems perfectly reasonable. Boys should not be in the girls' room.
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Instead of admitting to the overall concern is "sexual privacy", people try to create logical reasons for certain types of discrimination. This results in contradictions of what should be socially accepted.
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Yes, that seems perfectly reasonable. Boys should not be in the girls' room.

Difference being that I'm working off the legal categorization of their gender and not some "They're whatever they say they are" standard.
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No, you're just being a bigot. If you wish to refer to someone's legally recognized gender, then say that. Calling girls "boys" is just hateful.
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