{"id":2880,"date":"2015-01-31T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2015-01-31T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T02:11:00","slug":"co-ed-bathrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/co-ed-bathrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-ed Bathrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a growing awareness about gender identity with more and more news stories about transgender folks.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/211231-transgender-student-lawsuit-school-bathroom\/\">Transgender student wins $75k in school bathroom discrimination suit<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/casey-hoke\/transgender-bathrooms_b_6510862.html\">I&#8217;m a Transgender Teen and Which Restroom I Use Is None of Your Business<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cbs-news-poll-transgender-kids-and-school-bathrooms\/\">CBS News Poll: Transgender kids and school bathrooms<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/outward\/2014\/04\/11\/transgender_in_public_bathrooms_why_does_our_safety_always_come_second.html\">Fear and Loathing in Public Bathrooms, or How I Learned to Hold My Pee<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2015\/01\/14\/west-hollywood-kisses-single-sex-bathrooms-goodbye\">New Laws Are Making Public Bathrooms Safer for Transgender People<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of debates about how bathrooms should be. Should people be able to choose a women&#8217;s or men&#8217;s bathroom based on her or his own gender identity? Should all bathrooms be (one-at-a-time) unisex? Should bathrooms be co-ed?<\/p>\n<p>I went to college in the 1990s at a fairly liberal university, and we had co-ed bathrooms. It wasn&#8217;t scandalous. It wasn&#8217;t really that weird at all, frankly.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I was at an event, and I saw what I think is probably the best bathroom setup I&#8217;ve ever seen. There was a women&#8217;s bathroom. And then there was a co-ed bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so great about this setup?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women&#8217;s bathroom lines are typically longer than men&#8217;s bathroom lines at large events. So if there&#8217;s spillover, the women do not have to wait in line at the women&#8217;s bathroom&mdash;they can go to the men&#8217;s bathroom instead.<\/li>\n<li>Transgender folks don&#8217;t have to worry about being accused of using the &#8220;wrong&#8221; bathroom. They can just go to the co-ed one and not be hassled by transphobic people.<\/li>\n<li>Women who have PTSD around men and violence and want a safe space can go to the women&#8217;s bathroom and avoid the whole co-ed situation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have seen this setup in only one place, though. I wonder why it&#8217;s not more common. I identify as male, and I&#8217;ve often felt bad that I go straight to the bathroom while seeing a long line of women waiting for the women&#8217;s bathroom. This whole strict gender divide seems ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a growing awareness about gender identity with more and more news stories about transgender folks. Transgender student wins $75k in school bathroom discrimination suit I&#8217;m a Transgender Teen and Which Restroom I Use Is None of Your Business CBS News Poll: Transgender kids and school bathrooms Fear and Loathing in Public&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/co-ed-bathrooms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Co-ed Bathrooms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}