When gender is more than just a day at the local pool
Nov 19, 2009 12:02 AM
Caitlyn McNamara
http://www.martlet.ca/article/20489-when-gender-is-more-than (http://www.martlet.ca/article/20489-when-gender-is-more-than)
Life in Canada isn't a game of euchre. My rights don't trump his and hers, and the other guy's don't trump mine. But when the cards start getting mixed up and confused, exceptions get made and someone in power inevitably pulls out the trump card.
I was lifeguarding at my pool the other day, when I heard quick gasps puncture the scene in the women's locker room. Then came alarmed whispers, and giggles.
Flustered mothers shuffled past, covering little eyes as if the sight would shatter their world. Someone grabbed me by the wrist, incensed, demanding
attention.
They wondered if I could kindly ask "the testosterone in the women's bathing suit" to exit the women's shower room — "for the sake of the children."