Transgender Bathrooms... Targets getting boycotted. (Your Opinions?)

Looks like the social regressives got tired of gay-bashing and losing so they've moved over to trans-bashing. Assholes.

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pneuma wrote:

Looks like the social regressives got tired of gay-bashing and losing so they've moved over to trans-bashing. Assholes.

Yeah, but once they get tired of trans-bashing, what then? I feel like the idiosyncratic trendsetters are slacking here, they need to get more weirdness publicly accepted or the social regressives will run out of things to be ridiculous about.

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Dethklok wrote:

The more and more I look into this the more I beleive unisex or gender neutral bathrooms are going to be the best solution.

Adding more small "family" restrooms where parents can be assured no one else is in there with their kids would help as well.

One additional benefit to having unisex bathrooms is that the inadequacy of having enough women's stalls (in some busy areas) will become patently obvious, and more toilets likely added.

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DalaiLama wrote:

Yes, because in many of these cases, the offender was noticed because they weren't allowed to be there. When the offender is allowed to be there, it becomes much more difficult to get the offender out of there.

Maybe there's more stringent bathroom security in larger cities or something, but I have never seen any type of security on the bathrooms where I live. As such I don't see any reason allowing TG into their preferred bathrooms would cause an increase in sexual assault that warrants the paranoia.

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DalaiLama wrote:

Note, that I have specifically said, I don't have that answer. I do think the best answer to that will be determined by working with all the parties involved.

Neither do I, but it seems that unisex/coed bathrooms may be a good Idea. I haven't done any research into the matter, though it looks like Deth has.

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DalaiLama wrote:

I didn't say they need to be denied. The fact that people are questioning who goes into the women's restroom already limits many would be perpetrators.

I don't see how we can keep it secure without denying TG people until we can formulate a way to identify and control bathroom usage

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DalaiLama wrote:

It doesn't STOP all such crimes, but it does DETER them. With less deterrence comes more crime.

I doubt there is a huge deterrence of sexual assault since AFAIK most bathrooms are unregulated.

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DalaiLama wrote:

Ask yourself why they just didn't walk into the women's restrooms dressed as a man to commit their crimes?

Because they cared about getting caught.

Obviously I can't speak on their behalf, but my assumption would be to have a higher success rate. If a female would go in and see an obvious man they would probably leave and/or tell someone. If they see another (what they think is) female they will generally feel more comfortable. Again AFAIK the vast majority of bathrooms have no security regulation

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DalaiLama wrote:

Many more will be emboldened to do so, if no one can speak out against them. There is a similar effect around certain (non-related) crimes that already occurs and costs billions of dollars in losses.

Not sure which crimes you are specifically referring, but unless they are unregulated areas in which crime happens I don't think we can reliably compare the two, however it is still a fair point.

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Dalailama wrote:

An ID card (registered with local municipality/state) that people had to swipe when entering restrooms that had their preferred gender (and recorded time and date at location for future crime investigation) could be one possible part of a solution.

That might be going into 1984 territory.

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DalaiLama wrote:

It is already happening. There were a few recent results that I expected to see in my one click Google search (because I had seen them in the news the last week) where the new sense of who can use the restroom was specifically cited as a casuative factor.

I feel confidant that most people can use Google at least semi-effectively. So, if they bother to search, they will find them.

My post was to show that such things are NOT imaginary. Pretending that criminals won't take advantage of new opportunities (and claiming it is a fallacy) is like pretending that transgender people won't be offended by told they can't use the restroom of their choice (and pretending that is a fallacy).

People believe a lot of nonsense because it FEELS GOOD to think that way. Google doesn't have any feelings. Google away, and don't blame Google for showing you things you don't want to see, know or believe.

Though I do not believe that the increase that would occur would warrant the paranoia that is occurring, I do agree that there would most likely be an increase in the rate of crime. Again though, I heavily doubt that the increase warrants the paranoia.



I am far from an expert on the subject and as such all opinions I have should be taken with a few grains of salt.




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My house has an unisex bathroom and no rapes have happened whatsoever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You know, bathrooms where I live are in cubicles, it seems a mere design problem so people are let alone when they do their thing.

Never solve with laws what you can solve with technology.

Wouldn't this be the same as unisex bathrooms like you know.. at home?!

If its honestly those people who want to keep a secret of what whatever gender does in the toilet seems like a bull reason.

"They'll find out we don't poop out rainbows anymore!?"

And well how I see it... you identify which gender you associate with then use the Cubicle Stalls for privacy...

MYOB! You'll never notice.

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JeremiahLoh wrote:

Wouldn't this be the same as unisex bathrooms like you know.. at home?!

If its honestly those people who want to keep a secret of what whatever gender does in the toilet seems like a bull reason.

"They'll find out we don't poop out rainbows anymore!?"

And well how I see it... you identify which gender you associate with then use the Cubicle Stalls for privacy...

Main difference is that public restrooms are designed to have multiple people using it at the same time, whereas house restrooms generally are a designed for a single user.
I mean other than that there isn't much of a difference aside from etiquette.

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Einkil wrote:

Main difference is that public restrooms are designed to have multiple people using it at the same time, whereas house restrooms generally are a designed for a single user.
I mean other than that there isn't much of a difference aside from etiquette.

Toilet at home = offline single player, public stalls = online single player, urinals = online multiplayer. That bush behind the bus stop = piracy.

Although I suppose a single use toilet could potentially be hotseat multiplayer in the right (or wrong) circumstances.

IDK how nasty people are where you guys live but at least here where I live usually the Public Bathrooms have an On-Duty janitor or cleaning staff so they're always clean anyway.

And even then its kinda common courtesy now to clean up after you go as well. Seeing stuff like this makes me sometimes question if the so-called developed countries are even better?

Fast Food? "It's terrible"
Public Toilets? "We're discriminating now!"
Taxes? "We're spending it on arming the Rats with Laser Pointers"