Should we have the right to go into the bathroom of the gender we "identify" with?
 

This is an issue that is on my mind. How society sees you and how you see yourself may be two different things. And I want to hammer out what it is that we have a right to and what we don't have a right to. It is an issue in America and I guess I am curious what our British friends believe in.

My opinion:
I would argue that you should not have the right to go into the room of the gender you "identify" with. The reason for this is there is no way of knowing if someone is just saying they identify with the opposite gender. I can say I am a Muslim, I am a Christian, or I am an atheist and there is no way short of inventing a mind-reading devise to prove or disprove it. The classic fear is that middle-aged men who are perverts could abuse this right so they can use the bathroom with little girls in it.

But even if you could take people for their word and no one lied does it really fall under "oppression" to only be able to use the bathroom of your biological sex? I wish it were somehow possible to gather up the slave workers of China, the sex slaves of Africa and the Middle-East, and the transgenders of Europe and America into a room and then get the different groups to explain to the other groups the oppression that they face every day. I can only imagine at how incredulous the other groups would be when the transgenders speak about the bathroom thing and how cruel it is.

One man's opinion.

There is a thread on this somewhere..

I think this is a big issue in the US atm.Tbh i think if it happened here we would'nt be too bothered tbh.I don't see it as a big issue really.I'd just let anyone use any bathroom.It's only a toilet.We share bathrooms at home.

I think a trans persona should be able to use the toilet which matches which they identify with, its a bit demeaning to them if they are forced to use the gender they don't identify as, at the end of the day, all they're gonna be doing is pissing and ****ting so I don't know why people make a big deal of it.

yeah same here, we also have two uni sex bathrooms at work, you go in on your own either way :shrug:

So you're trivialising transgender issues because they aren't as bad as exploitation and slavery? OK then.

Yes, it's just a bathroom it's not a big deal at all. Frankly, if people are THAT bothered about who else might be using the bathroom, they should just wait until they get home. If you're using a "PUBLIC" toilet then I think you have to be able to accept that the public is made up of all sorts of different types of people and I don't think people should impose their own personal discomfort about whoever it is they're uncomfortable with, onto everyone else, as a way of deciding who gets to do what, where.

It's just a bathroom it's not a big deal.

It cud be open to be abused but it shud be introduced for sure....Just some alterations ...we did it for wheel chairs a few years back