Being Safe In Restrooms

[Shana A]

Being Safe In Restrooms

By AMY DICKINSON
    August 31, 2008

http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-amy0831.artaug31,0,1888134.story

DEAR AMY: Recently, I was in a public restroom at a large convention center in an area where no one else was around. Upon entering the restroom, a gentleman came out of the stall. I was rather uncomfortable and was about to blurt out, "Excuse me, but this is a ladies room."

But then it occurred to me that this person might be very masculine-looking. He or she was wearing a baseball cap and very manly clothing.

I stopped myself because I did not want to be insulting, but I was also uncomfortable and nervous. I don't care if the person was transsexual, but if it was, in fact, a man, I would have felt unsafe.

[liv]

Yeah, I caught that in the Winston Salem Journal. Nothing like some Cold-War fear mongering to get the country to start call the police on anyone who doesn't conform. What a dork she is.

[Natasha]

Ask Amy: I was taken aback to find a man, or transsexual, in the ladies' room

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/aug/31/ask-amy-i-was-taken-aback-to-find-a-man-or-transse/
8/30/2008

Dear Amy: Recently, I was in a public restroom at a large convention center in an area where no one else was around. Upon entering the restroom, a gentleman came out of the stall. I was rather uncomfortable and was about to blurt out, "Excuse me, but this is a ladies room."