Bathroom laws spurring transgender Americans to organize

[suzifrommd]

Bathroom laws spurring transgender Americans to organize

AP April 3, 2016, 3:16 PM

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bathroom-laws-spurring-transgender-americans-to-organize/

Stung by setbacks related to their access to public restrooms, transgender Americans are taking steps to play a more prominent and vocal role in a nationwide campaign to curtail discrimination against them.

Two such initiatives are being launched this week -- evidence of how transgender rights has supplanted same-sex marriage as the most volatile, high-profile issue for the broader movement of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists.

One initiative is a public education campaign called the Transgender Freedom Project that will share the personal stories of transgender people. The other, the Trans United Fund, is a political advocacy group that will engage in election campaigns at the federal and state level, pressing candidates to take stands on transgender rights.

[mac1]

I still believe that there is one simple and effective solution.  Make all public restrooms "coed unisex" with individual private stalls.

[HappyMoni]

I just saw a CNN report on the issue in North Carolina. If anyone is into  "drag" please don't take offense to what I say here. They talk about the issue while they introduce a mainstream (for lack of a better word) married transgender woman. This is fine. Then, of course, they have to show her at a drag show with all the performers in rather outrageous outfits. This is the obligatory way that transgender people must be portrayed. Why must the show business side of being transgender have to be shown especially to an audience that probably knows very little and might assume that RuPaul is gonna be in the bathroom with them? I would imagine that I just offended someone. If so sorry. There is a place for drag, but there should be a place for the majority who just want to blend in and pee in peace.
Moni

[sparrow]

That's just lazy, sloppy reporting.  Some drag performers are transgender... my money says that the journalist went to a drag show and asked around until she found a transgender drag artist.  Shaaaame....

[KarlMars]

I still believe that there is one simple and effective solution.  Make all public restrooms "coed unisex" with individual private stalls.

I had thought of that before, and it's a wonderful idea. 

[Dee Marshall]

Making bathrooms "coed unisex" is a partial solution that's as difficult to pass as getting us equal rights if not harder. Make no mistake, bathroom bills are just a battle in a bigger war, one our opponents think they can win. It's not just about bathrooms, it's about whether or not we should be treated as citizens with rights or escaped mental patients.