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It's all about the toilets: Annise Parker's transgender order causes protest

Started by Shana A, April 10, 2010, 09:37:32 AM

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Shana A

 It's all about the toilets: Annise Parker's transgender order causes protest
By Sarah Rufca
April 9th, 2010 at 2:05 PM

http://culturemap.com/newsdetail/04-09-10-its-all-about-the-toilets-parkers-order-causes-protest/

And yet the executive orders Mayor Annise Parker signed on March 25 have led to some backlash among local religious officials. The orders, which added gender identification to race, creed, color, sex, national origin, age and disability as protected classes that city officials may not discriminate against, and allowed transgender individuals use the restroom of the sex with which they identify, were enforceable from the date of signing.

Steve Riggle, senior pastor of Grace Community Church told Christian Post that "Forcing women in particular using city facilities to be subjected to cross-dressing men invading their privacy is beyond the pale and offensive to every standard of decency." Riggle, like many of the figures speaking out, is a member of the conservative Houston Area Pastor Council, the same group that launched vehement attacks against Parker during her mayoral campaign based on her sexuality.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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LordKAT

Well I have to agree with one point, I don't want
Quoteperverted cross-dressing lunatic
in any restroom. Trans women in women's room makes sense tho.

Some century they will get it straight and maybe even ask real people instead of their cronies only.
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Kaelin

In that case, the cross-dressing is a means-to-an-ends more than (or instead of) a reflection of identity.  Unfortunately, there is no quick way for someone to prove they are the latter rather than the former (short of ID).  But at the same time, a "man" doesn't need special clothes to sneak into a women's restroom, and some adjustments can be made to ensure safety of people in a restroom much like in a stairway.  Aside from discouraging sex-related behavior by cisgender heterosexuals, sex-segregation (versus gender-segregation or even no segregation) doesn't do a whole lot to ensure personal safety and prevent crime, so society would do well to think more deeply about the logistics involved.

Of course, when your society has lots of people who think TGism is immoral, it is difficult to work with them.  The best you can hope to do is get enough clear-thinking individuals to assemble an effective policy with useful recommendations (to assist the transition).  You won't satisfy the fringe, but you may weaken the appeal of their rhetoric and/or get most of them to grudgingly play along through the power of the comprehensiveness of your policy -- you don't give them what they ask for, but you address the fears they have (empowering and assisting them to ensure safety).
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