By 'naked' I assume it's meant that the situation is one of 'gang showers' where there is absolutely no privacy. At the military base where I work, both the male and female locker rooms provide shower cubbies with a curtained space to change just outside the shower stall itself.
Both genders having this arrangement is unusual, architects and clients usually opting for the cheaper gang showers for the males and curtained stalls for the females, while a few cheap bastids will go with gang showers for both.
I used to have a janitorial business. We had contracts to four healthclubs. All had curtained stalls for the women, two had them also for the men.
So I'd say that the idea behind the poll question is situational.
Is public nudity unavoidable (gang showers and rows of lockers and benches)? Pre-op/non-op should be excluded.
Is there sufficient privacy (curtained shower stalls with changing areas)? Barring other mitigating circumstances (but not prejudice or squeamishness), pre-ops and non-ops should be accomodated with the understanding they will make full use of available privacy screening when changing and showering.
And the regulatory pressure should be in the direction of accommodating -- not excluding -- transgenders from the start of RLT. Make it easier to comply with that principle than to seek and employ loopholes to perpetuate discrimination.
As I was typing the last, I envisioned Christian Right groups building new health club facilities with gang showers and high school -style lockers with benches for the women's facility precisely to exclude transgenders from their midst. I don't put it past them to lower the actual privacy an individual woman has just to maintain a discriminatory policy.
Okay, this has gotten goofy...
Karen
