Discrimination goes beyond the bathroom
By Erica Quin-Easter, Special to the BDN
Posted April 28, 2011, at 9:18 p.m.
http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/04/28/opinion/contributors/discrimination-goes-beyond-the-bathroom/?ref=mostReadBoxThere are many things about public restrooms that terrify me: The mouse that ran over my foot while I was seated in a stall in the Medway rest stop. Running out of toilet paper with no one nearby to hand me a new roll. Waiting in line after drinking too much coffee. People who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom. Those Xlerator dryers that make your skin look like silly putty.
But peeing next to a transgender person does not scare me.
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What if, every time you needed to use the bathroom — during the school day, the work day, on the road, or anywhere away from home — you had to run the risk of rage and retribution?
