When do you know it's time to start using the womens restroom?

[Evelyn K]

Just putting this here



Maybe they should remove the titles and just leave it up to "preference"?

[Missy~rmdlm]

I started using ladies room when I was getting Male-Fail. This was conclusively proven on an occasion where women followed me into the men's room. They definitely did double takes. The bottom line is it was just time. At work they passed a specific rule that I had to have SRS before I could use the ladies room, then promptly relabeled all the bathrooms unisex. I have no idea what the company lawyers were telling them. Lol.

[Ryan55]

I say go for it, worst they will do is tell you your in the wrong bathroom or just ignore you like they do me lol I use the womens room at work still, which is just getting awkward, this one lady was in there with her daughter and her daughter starts laughing saying why is he in the girls room washing his hands lol I bolted out of there before I can hear the mom respond (good luck to her explaining that).

[Jill F]

Let's see... I was wearing a cute dress and full makeup and I had to go really badly. 

No way in hell I was going to the men's room, out myself to a bunch of random guys in a strange town and risk being a statistic.

[Violet Bloom]

Just putting this here

Maybe they should remove the titles and just leave it up to "preference"?

I find it ironic that the female depicted is streaming at the same straight-forward angle as the male!   They also seem to be simultaneously using a hair dryer on their long hair to save time.

  I have used the ladies' room whenever presenting female, but it felt a bit awkward until my facial laser treatments got far enough along and until I started shaving my arms.  Never one bad glance.  I'm 6'1" although I'm quite thin thankfully.  If anyone ever noticed they certainly didn't say anything.

  One really funny scene was just before the Pride March in Toronto this summer.  Near the march staging area everyone very quickly found the one washroom in the area in a nearby mall food court.  Immediately a big line formed at the womens' and the mens' had no line.  A couple women briefly debated aloud skipping the line and using the mens'.  Nobody seemed to be concerned.  I said to them, "Well, it is in the spirit of the event!"  Just to make myself happy I waited out my turn in the womens' line.  And with that I'd truly joined the girls' club!  You haven't made it until you've had to wait in line.

[YinYanga]

We'll see tomorrow when Ill go shopping

Maybe I would pee my pants prematurely due to the anxiety 

[Allyda]

Seriously, just go in and pee. Don't make a big deal about it. You don't have to prove anything.

Agreed ^^___^^ just go in and pee, then leave. I hadn't thought about putting on lipstick attracting extra attention because women in my local Wal-Mart do it all the time. I can see though now why it prolly might not be a good idea. Evelyn if your 5-3 your shorter than I am at 5-5, and if your passing you shouldn't have any problems.

Allie

[stephaniec]

I use the ladies room if I have make up on or wearing a dress, otherwise I use the men's .

[Teela Renee]

I jumped in head strong, day 1 of going full time I started using the womens restroom.

[Lyric]

This one's easy: When you're out and your A. Need to pee and B. More people call you you "ma'am" than "sir".

[Sydney_NYC]

After 3 months on HRT (dressed andro), I knew it was time one day when I got a strange look when I walked into the mens bathroom at a clients office building and the got a really shocked look by someone when I walked up to use a urinal. Later that day, a female employee at that client asked if I had left a ring in the women's bathroom. From then on I started going full time and using the women's restroom. Never had a problem since even at 6'7".

In the NYC area there are a lot of gender neutral restrooms. The two signs that I found kind of funny were this one:



and another one with the same logo that said:  "Whatever"  (It was at Henrietta Hudson, a lesbian bar in the the west village. Wish I had taken a picture of it.)

[Eva Marie]

I use the women's bathroom when I am presenting as female and I use the men's room when I am presenting as male. Even though I have gotten some male fails no one has said anything about me using the men's room as of yet. No one has ever said anything to me in the women's room although I have gotten a few stares while waiting in that dang bathroom line for some reason. To heck with them.

I'm about to file my name and gender change and when that's complete it's full time women's room.

[Tori]

The laws in Hawaii are on my side.

So, if I expect to be treated like a woman, I use the woman's restroom.

I have had an odd look or two but really, you care less when you have to go.

I confess, I tend to frequent places that I know well enough to have a bathroom strategy, and I do prefer unisex rooms.

It is really comforting when a girlfriend will go in with me. Makes me feel like I have every right to be there. Then we sit, do our thing and chat the whole time.

[Ms Grace]

Designed by someone (ie a guy) who doesn't have much clue which direction women pee, if women could pee forwards like that they wouldn't need to sit to pee!

[Allyda]

Designed by someone (ie a guy) who doesn't have much clue which direction women pee, if women could pee forwards like that they wouldn't need to sit to pee!

Yup, definitely designed by a guy. I Agree 100%. Not only is the design wrong when it comes to how women pee, I think it's indecent.

Allie

[luna nyan]

I'm weird.

I thought that pic was hilarious.  But then again, I'm very hard to offend.

[Evelyn K]

Maybe they should remove the titles and just leave it up to "preference"?

Here's a knock-on



Works for me

[Allyda]

Here's a knock-on



Works for me

Hey I like this one. Here where I live unisex rest rooms are becoming popular though.

Allie

[TashaEve]

Its almost that time for me.

I was at the pub with friends last night. Suddenly, that moment dreaded by all 'androgynous presenting trans' appears, too much wine. I see a sign on a door and after a long while cross legged, hoping the moment will pass, I take the plunge.
But I'm not there yet, so I sneak into the masculine. I do my business and hide/wait for others to leave before sneaking back out. I feel the shame on my face as I leave.

Why so sneaky? I think to myself.  Is it my long hair, tied back in a cheeky pony tail? Or the two increasingly obvious bumps on my chest? The earrings? The light lip gloss? The tight shirt and sweater?

Today was a different story. Shopping in the city. A few too many coffees. I'd been ma'am'd already and I was feeling much better about everything. Even had a male stand to give me his seat on the tram, but being female isn't an enfeeblement, so I remained standing. So today I wasn't going to sneak and hide in the gents.

Today I would take my rightful seat... in the ladies!! (perhaps with some sneaking and hiding)

[Violet Bloom]

Designed by someone (ie a guy) who doesn't have much clue which direction women pee, if women could pee forwards like that they wouldn't need to sit to pee!

  I've heard some women with practice can pee standing up much like a guy, at which point anyone they proudly tell of their 'accomplishment' accuses them of penis-envy.  I suppose also nowadays no one is supposed dispute the validity of a (trans) woman proudly retaining and using their penis as they see fit.  With that in mind, the cartoonish images on the doors actually look more like a standing cis woman and a squatting non-/pre-op transwoman.

  Just curious - Have any transmen on here learned to pee standing without prosthetic help?