Policing Public Bathroom Use: The Enforcement Problem
By: Autumn Sandeen Monday January 23, 2012 4:30 pm
http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/01/23/policing-public-bathroom-use-the-enforcement-problem/How does one police men's and women's public bathroom use to the sex and gender binary — whatever the standard one uses to define the sex and gender binary? That isn't a rhetorical question.
Recently, Tennessee State Representative Richard Floyd proposed a law to prohibit trans people from using use public bathrooms and dressing rooms that don't match the gender listed on their birth certificates. Other women, including of transsexual/operative history, have suggested — such as in the Montreal Gazette's Trans Talk blog, that women who have a right to be and feel safe in a sex-segregated facility – that use of public women's restrooms can be — and perhaps should be — about what the shape of the front body part in an individual's underwear.
