It Is Bathrooms Again

It seems like everything revolves around bathrooms, no matter how much we say that bathrooms are not a problem that trans people have been using bathroom forever and ever the bigots keep bring it up to instill fear against us.

The Attempt to Keep Transgender People Out of Bathrooms Is Working
More than half of trans people surveyed have avoided public restrooms over the past year.
Mother Jones
By Samantha Michaels
July 12, 2016

This year, states across the country have struggled with the question of whether transgender people should be allowed to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity rather than the sex listed on their birth certificate. In March, North Carolina enacted a law blocking trans people from public bathrooms of their choice, and lawmakers in many other states have considered similar legislation. Proponents of these bathroom bills say they want to protect women and girls from male sexual predators; opponents say the legislation discriminates against a vulnerable minority.

Some new statistics out Monday from the National Center for Transgender Equality show how bathroom access—or lack of access—can affect the health and safety of transgender adults. In the largest-ever survey of transgender people in the United States, the NCTE, an advocacy group, heard from more than 27,000 transgender adults in August and September 2015.

The survey they are talking about is posted here, it is preliminary data from the U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS) and some of the findings are…

• 59% have avoided bathrooms in the last year because they feared confrontations in public restrooms at work, at school, or in other places.
• 12% report that they have been harassed, attacked, or sexually assaulted in a bathroom in the last year.
• 31% have avoided drinking or eating so that they did not need to use the restroom in the last year.
• 24% report that someone told them they were using the wrong restroom or questioned their presence in the restroom in the last year.
• 9% report being denied access to the appropriate restroom in the last year.
• 8% report having a kidney or urinary tract infection, or another kidney-related medical issue, from avoiding restrooms in the last year.

And it is becoming a lot worst as the Republicans continue their drive to all things LGBT back into the closet.

I avoid using public bathrooms mainly because they are yucky. One time I was driving home on I-81 in Virginia and UGH! The bathroom was horrible with pee and under toilet paper on the floor, if it wasn’t for the fact that I had another 400 miles to drive I would have kept my legs crossed.

The nicest bathroom that I was in was a tossup between Yale with their heated toilet seats or Smith College with their murals in the bathrooms in the art museum.