the restroom is not really that big of an issue, it can be solved by doors and wing walls
the locker room is the biggest issue..if a male is feeling female today he can shower with the girls.
dont laugh, they pasted this insane crap in commie fornia.
LOL...If they had this law when I was 16 I would have identified as female in a friggen heart beat to get in the girls shower
hell yeah !!!!!!
The girls showers always have curtains and stalls. We walk around naked in there but that's about it. I personally wouldn't give a crap if someone who was trans came in.
There are rules. If someone got caught jerking off (male or female genitalia) in there or if someone was causing issues or making people uncomfortable there are policies in place to handle this. So I don't see what the big deal is. If someone was being a jerk they would more than likely get kicked out. I think there was a case like this at a Planet Fitness where one woman was a total pest about it and said she wasn't aware it was okay to let in a trans woman. If I had such an issue with Planet Fitness's policy I would demand a refund and work out somewhere else. This woman instead squawked about it all week in the locker room and then got kicked out because one of the other women probably complained about what a pain in the *** she was being.
I have personally always wondered about the dudes room as I was told that in high school, the boys didn't get stalls or curtains. Also I have seen a lot of interesting ads on craigslist with men scoping other men in the locker rooms. Because in my mind's eye the men's locker room is all open I can imagine that might be hell on earth for a trans man.
Aside from that there was at my YMCA a locker room for men and women and then a separate locker room for girls and boys under 16 or 18 I don't remember. So in this case now while the younger girls might be in there with a trans woman or a teenager trying to pull something, if that teenager was being an a-hole or leering he would get reported for improper behavior and kicked out.
I wish we had those European outside urinals.
Unisex locker rooms would have been nice when I was in school. But having two daughters I will probably have to put them in some private school to keep them away from most of the pervs.
Chris, while that is a feasible solution, I think the best thing you can do for your daughters is to teach them what's okay and what isn't. My dad taught me how to fight in case words didn't work. That's solved most of my issues with pervy dudes who get too close and still does to this day. Remember the whole issue we have here in this discussion is that they still have their male genitalia. One swift jab to the family jewels, and then running off to report to an authority figure and the whole issue should be solved. There is also eye scathing, gouging, etc etc. My dad told me don't ever just let someone take you (i.e. kidnapping.) You scream, you kick, you jab, you bite, you do whatever you have to do, to attract attention and get away. You can't control whether they get encounter a perv or not but you can get them as best prepped for the situation as possible.
I thought my dad was torturing me when I was younger telling me horrible stories to both me and my brother about pervs in locker rooms or bathrooms getting in and hurting people, bad other things etc. (There had been an issue in the town with a perv in the boys bathroom, of course I didn't learn that had actually happened til I was older.) When I was an adult and successfully avoided being mugged because I was paying attention to the look in the eye of this dude on a bike, I thanked my dad. After the guy passed me, I looked back and noticed he had stopped at the end of the street and turned his back around toward me. There were two people behind me, once I heard them say while they were talking to each other that they were headed into the garage whose entrance was just about 5 feet in front of me I ran. I dashed into a hotel in the nick of time, the guy on the bike was just a few inches behind me and when I entered the staff told me that 3 other people had had issues with men on bikes that week and after my incident that day they posted security outside. I called dad from the safety of the hotel and thanked him for forcing me to pay so much attention to my surroundings.
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