I've tried and tried with STP's. The issue isn't so much the STP, but the fact I can't get a good harness to work with it. Every harness I've had has not been very good and the medicine spoon keeps poking me. I took the tubing out of the STP and now use it as a packer. I currently don't use the men's room because I don't pass very well at all. I'm on HRT and hope to pass eventually. Do any of you guys sit to pee in a stall? Has this ever been an issue for anyone? Thanks!

I sit to pee in the men's room all the time and no one has ever said anything to me on it.

The one STP packer I bought didn't fit right and leaked, so I don't use it. The one STP I have that works is a medicine spoon that sits in my pocket. I use it when I need to combat dysphoria or when there is urine on the seat I don't want to deal with. 

Usually though, I sit. It's what I'm used to and is more comfortable. There isn't a problem. When I started I was worried about it but after a while it just become natural.

I will say this one thing...my brother when he was little had a split stream..literally meant when he had to use the bathroom it would go in two directions. I assume that there's more than one person with this problem and can't afford/be bothered to fix it (my brother had surgery for it). I would also expect people with certain piercings might not be able to pee standing.

Just some fun excuses if you ever get bothered. I have no intentions on using an STP. Haven't successfully used a public men's room that was more than a no-stall no-urinal type.

I sit down in the mens room to pee - I actually miss womens bathrooms though most of the time, the mens are so dirty and never have paper xD

Also my partner is cis male and he always sits to pee, just a preference thing.

I sit to pee but I keep meaning to get around to mastering my medicine spoon. Very often there's a line for the stall(s) and a urinal or two right there with no line.

Quote from: Felix on March 17, 2012, 04:42:06 PM
I sit to pee but I keep meaning to get around to mastering my medicine spoon. Very often there's a line for the stall(s) and a urinal or two right there with no line.

Even if I mastered the medicine spoon, the packer I have is pink. No one I know has a pink dick. No offense. If it's just pee I can usually hold it anyway. If it's other stuff I have a "legit" reason to be waiting for a stall anyway. 

Quote from: Darrin on March 17, 2012, 04:50:38 PM
Even if I mastered the medicine spoon, the packer I have is pink. No one I know has a pink dick. No offense. If it's just pee I can usually hold it anyway. If it's other stuff I have a "legit" reason to be waiting for a stall anyway. 

Well my medicine spoon is plastic and bright yellow, and I'd be banking on the fact that anybody looking at my dick in the men's room is about to have a bit more to think about than whether or not it's real. I don't think it would be all that much more sketchy than sitting to pee in doorless stalls, which I do without much problem.

I'm gone from home way too much to just hold it. I'd be doing the pee dance all the time.

Quote from: Darrin on March 17, 2012, 02:44:53 PM
I've tried and tried with STP's. The issue isn't so much the STP, but the fact I can't get a good harness to work with it. Every harness I've had has not been very good and the medicine spoon keeps poking me. I took the tubing out of the STP and now use it as a packer. I currently don't use the men's room because I don't pass very well at all. I'm on HRT and hope to pass eventually. Do any of you guys sit to pee in a stall? Has this ever been an issue for anyone? Thanks!

Up until just recently I sat to pee. People say that no one notices if you do, but honestly I think they do. Especially if it's a very quiet/small bathroom and it's just you and another person. I'm a bigger guy and I've struggled with pretty much every STP I've tried. I just got the "Shewee" (awful name, I know), and it's like a miracle. So easy to use, no leaks whatsoever. Since it's not a packer STP I haven't used it a urinal but just going in the stall and being able to stand has helped my confidence big time.

Quote from: Nygeel on March 17, 2012, 03:21:08 PM
I will say this one thing...my brother when he was little had a split stream..literally meant when he had to use the bathroom it would go in two directions. I assume that there's more than one person with this problem and can't afford/be bothered to fix it (my brother had surgery for it). I would also expect people with certain piercings might not be able to pee standing.

Just some fun excuses if you ever get bothered. I have no intentions on using an STP. Haven't successfully used a public men's room that was more than a no-stall no-urinal type.

I've had a split stream all my life as a result of some odd unknown scarring that I have down there. I'm ok in the urinals, but with toilets, I have to sit or it goes everywhere. No one has ever said anything about me sitting, nor do I even think they even think about it.

Quote from: michelle666 on March 17, 2012, 05:59:08 PM
I've had a split stream all my life as a result of some odd unknown scarring that I have down there. I'm ok in the urinals, but with toilets, I have to sit or it goes everywhere. No one has ever said anything about me sitting, nor do I even think they even think about it.

The only time I think about what someone is doing in a stall is when I'm wondering if I should wait or find another bathroom. Even then I don't consider anything other than normal bathroom use vs injecting drugs or getting sick or something.

I usually use the disabled toilets, but when I have to use the mensrooms, I sit.  I always figured no one would care - sometimes, if I have time and there's someone else in there, I sit a little longer after I'm done to give them the idea I may be doing Number Two - everyone has to crap after all lol

I don't use the mens room yet but when I do I will probably be sitting until I can get bottom surgery.  I would probably be too lazy to go through all that red tape just to say I can stand up peeing.  It's not like some cismale is going to walk up to me and give me a cookie for it.

I can see myself now in this situation:

"How do I use this flimsy contraption?" *dick and medicine spoon falls out of pants rolling under the next stall while all the guys stare at me*

I'm theoretically a guy, and don't remember ever standing to pee in a public place. I never got weird looks or anything. If I TELL people that I sit, they're very surprised and I have to make up a malformation story, but apart from that, everything is fine.

People just assume you're going to poop. Most of the time, we also pee when we do. No one would ever stand to pee THEN sit to do the rest, right?

If you're still scared, take your time. A person seeing you enter will assume that you're going to poop. If you take your time, that person will be gone, and when you come out, the people who are there won't know that you just peed.

And you can also make up a malformation story. o.o

Hey guys, are you not afraid 1 day to be 'unmask' inside and afraid that bio guys rape you or something like that?

 Before I transitioned, I had never once even tried to stand to pee in a guys' room. The same went for a lot of the guys... some sat, some stood - sitting was excused with a 'laziness' clause.

I doubt you'd get a sideways look if you explained it was teh lazy. Assuming, of course, the topic comes up... otherwise, it's pretty weird to talk about how you go to the bathroom to others.

And Fighting Spirit: I can not say I've ever seen or heard of a guy try to burst into an occupied stall, no matter the circumstance. Do not try to instill fear here, please.

Interesting to know that some guys sit out of laziness. I've always thought they stood because it saved them a few seconds to do so (that, and male culture), so I'd have thought that the lazy option was to actually stand. I never knew that male culture was so strong for peeing. o.o I mean, they go through the grossness of not being able to wipe and it's harder to do it that way. x_x

As for harnesses, I don't have much to offer - sorry.
I haven't had luck w/a STP device so always sit in men's room stalls.
People haven't ever given me any grief about it.

Quote from: Fighting Spirit on March 17, 2012, 10:55:37 PM
Hey guys, are you not afraid 1 day to be 'unmask' inside and afraid that bio guys rape you or something like that?

This kind of thing can happen, but most people don't really want to rape random transguys in bathrooms. I've been walked in on repeatedly, and I've peed in bathrooms that have toilets but no stall doors, and lots of guys have looked at me. Mostly they don't see anything wrong, or don't process it if they do. They are looking to use the facilities themselves, not check out other guys' junk. Lol usually. I can't speak for everybody.

I'm a small guy but pretty aggressive with strangers in public. Even if somebody looks at me funny I tend to just act like the bigger dog.

*I want to make it very clear that I'm not pretending rape doesn't happen. Rape happens.

I've sat to pee for three decades and never had a single issue, aside from finding clean seats.

It's not because I find it "ladylike", it's because I'm a serious clean freak and standing to pee is IMHO disgusting. The neat little stream your eyes can see is only part of it. A bunch more you can't see is getting sprayed all over your clothes, the toilet, and the floor. You ever wonder why toilets used solely by men all have that sticky, smelly film all around the floor? It's not something that just happens, it builds up because of people standing to pee! </rant>

Also, when you're obese and seriously out of shape like I used to be, you simply don't pass up an opportunity to get off your feet and to air out everything "down there". Back when I was working fast food, bathroom breaks were the only opportunity I ever got to sit down...

Aaaaanyway. If you're looking for an excuse, just tell 'em you're Muslim.

Quote from: Fighting Spirit on March 17, 2012, 10:55:37 PM
Hey guys, are you not afraid 1 day to be 'unmask' inside and afraid that bio guys rape you or something like that?

I'd have to say that is a risk for anyone at any point and anyone can rape, not just men who were AMAB.  Are some at higher risk than others?   I'm sure they are.  Do I live my life in fear of something that could happen to anyone? No.