Jonathan Kay on the idiocy of university bathroom identity politics
National Post, CanadaJonathan Kay
12/2/2008
Why not just dig a big hole in the ground and make everybody use it?
There are many things I don't miss about university life. Foremost among them is the idiotic debate — which seems to be ongoing on most liberal-arts campuses — about bathrooms.
I don't mean the actual physical amenities inside the bathrooms. I mean the eye-glazing arguments about who gets to use what bathroom, unisex versus sex-specific, and — most commonly — the accommodation of pre-op, post-op, mid-op, non-op, quasi-op and paleo-op transgendered individuals, who represent about 0.1% of the student population, yet seem to dominate an enormous share of student-council deliberations.
