Pee in Safety!
E.J. Graff
January 17, 2012
http://prospect.org/article/pee-safety (http://prospect.org/article/pee-safety)
In Ithaca, New York, at least.
As I've written here before, bathrooms are the ground zero of the transgender social movement. Talk to a transman or transwoman—or to many "gender-nonconforming" folks (i.e., women who are very butch and men who are very fey)—and you'll hear about the fury, hostility, threats, and assaults that can result from using either bathroom. Go into the women's, and you can get yelled at for not being a real woman. Go into the men's, ditto. To avoid risking the hostility and the threat of attack, many end up "holding it" for long periods of time, day after day, resulting in kidney and bladder infections.
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Well, here comes another reason to love Planned Parenthood: Its Ithaca, New York chapter has created a "pee in peace" iPhone app for the area. Here's the description: