Ungendering seems like the extreme, and so, the wrong step to take in the workplace.
What Obama put forth -- using the facilities meant for the gender you identify with -- seems like a more common-sense response. Chances that someone would exploit such a policy at a work place seem pretty low.
Maybe the point is to spread awareness by taking a stand? Maybe the point is to take a more extreme step to make trans people feel more welcome? On the other hand, what about everyone else? After all, it's a workplace and there is enough politics there anyway.
To be honest, I think I would be uncomfortable if this happened at my workplace.
Anyway, I get that this is a touchy thing to comment on, but figured I would put in my 2 cents incase I learnt something from any responses.
Did they put wastebaskets and tampon dispensers in the other bathroom? If so, it's not mentioned in this article. It really sounds like they just decommissioned a perfectly good urinal and made everyone's life more inconvenient.
Do cis males opinions and inconveniences matter less than other demographics? In this case a (presumably) very small group of people that's bothered by gendered bathrooms.
> threatening the safety of any trans person who needs to use a restroom in public.
It's statements like these that put people off.
Equally plausible is women might feel their safety is compromised by sharing a bathroom but I think as a society people need to stop being babied, it's making everyone worse off.
Can't we just stick with, if some people want to use ungendered bathrooms they should have the option?
The way the article is written, I think, hurts the cause rather than helps.
What Obama put forth -- using the facilities meant for the gender you identify with -- seems like a more common-sense response. Chances that someone would exploit such a policy at a work place seem pretty low.
Maybe the point is to spread awareness by taking a stand? Maybe the point is to take a more extreme step to make trans people feel more welcome? On the other hand, what about everyone else? After all, it's a workplace and there is enough politics there anyway.
To be honest, I think I would be uncomfortable if this happened at my workplace.
Anyway, I get that this is a touchy thing to comment on, but figured I would put in my 2 cents incase I learnt something from any responses.