Bathroom Rumors

[Shana A]

Amos Mac
Photographer, writer and publisher; editor-in-chief, 'Original Plumbing' and 'Translady Fanzine'

Bathroom Rumors
Posted: 10/4/11 10:31 AM ET

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amos-mac/bathroom-rumors_b_981292.html

Believe it or not, I am a guy who likes to leave my house from time to time. Occasionally I'll be out, you know, people-watching in the local park, shopping downtown, or cruising around and making frequent stops at the tiny indie cafe in my gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood, inhaling pints of coffee on the hour. Sometimes I'll even drink water. Eventually the time comes when my bladder has successfully been filled and I'll have to, you know, empty it. I'll find the nearest public restroom and use it. As long as there's a stall with a door, of course.

As a "transitioned" transsexual man, it's easy for me. Again, as long as there is a stall involved. I can't stress that enough. This man needs a stall. Because he sits to pee. Because he still has a vagina.

[spacial]

Not because of the child per se, but because both parents... wait for it... are female-to-male (FTM) trans people. People are assuming that the parents are forcing their child to be trans, or that their home life is making it an almost too safe space for this child to feel that he was "born in the wrong body."

This is the point here, transgender parents are presumed to be guilty of child abuse. (Which, if this accusation were true, might be the case).

Senerio. Two gay parents, their child comes out as gay. Ergo, the parents have made the child gay.

Senerio 2. Two straight parents. Their child comes out as straight. That's OK. Another potential cannon fodder or another breeder from the next generation of cannon fodder.