Do it where you eat
Workplace hook-up scenarios analyzed for your reading pleasure
By Dan Savage
http://www.metrotimes.com/culture/story.asp?id=14554 (http://www.metrotimes.com/culture/story.asp?id=14554)
Q: I have a new co-worker, a young man who is gay and quite effeminate. He's slim, wears makeup, has boyish, feminine features, and has done some modeling work as a woman. He said in a lunchroom discussion today that he prefers to wear women's clothes. He said he had worn women's clothes at a previous workplace, and no one had been offended. I suggested he talk to HR to protect his job before coming to work dressed in women's clothing. Good advice? Or should I just mind my own business? One co-worker suggested that he work up to it, while another said he should just do it and let the chips fall where they may. The question of what restroom he should use when dressed as a woman came up. I'm not 100 percent comfortable sharing the ladies' room with him. Though I am certain most of the men won't be comfortable sharing the men's room with him either.
Do you have any suggestions on how to handle situations where I might find myself in the same restroom as my newest co-worker? —She Knows It's Really Trivial
unless you routinely offer to zip up your co-workers or wipe their asses for them, I don't see how his presence — or his attire or the particular brand of genitalia tucked into his panties — really affects you at all.
Got to love Dan Savage.
Stalls have doors for a reason. do your thing and let it go.