I hate when I’m out and I have to go the bathroom, I know that 99.999% of the time there will be no problem, but...
There is actually a web site called “Safe to Pee” that trans-people can list places that are OK use. When I first came out I use to ask other trans-people where it was safe to go, we even had a word for it “trannietized” or in other words that there were other trans-people who visited it there. However, I have a problem with list like that, when the support group where I take care of the website had a list of trans-friendly places and one time we got an ear full from a member who went to a bar that we had on the list and she got harassed there, what we didn’t know was that the bar had changed owners and it became a Country & Western bar. So ever since then I am always leery of lists of safe places because all it takes is one bigot to cause trouble.
The right wing conservations try to create an image that it is dangerous to allow trans-people to use the bathroom, when in reality it is much more likely that it is us that faces danger when we go the bathroom. Do you remember the Baltimore County McDonald's beating of a trans-woman last year? She was beating by to women in the lobby of a McDonald’s restaurant that cause the woman to have a seizure.
Transgender New Yorkers Face Scorn And Violence Using Public RestroomsEvery time I have to use a public bathroom I know it is a crap shoot (pun intended), you spin the wheel and take your chances. So far I have been lucky, but you never really know all it takes is one bigot.
Huffington Post
By Andrea Swalec, DNAinfo Reporter
Posted: 10/01/2012
MANHATTAN — Long before her boyfriend was slashed for defending her against an alleged gay-slur-spewing McDonald's patron who questioned her use of the ladies' room, Jalisa Griffin came to dread each time she needed to use a public bathroom.
Griffin, 22, who identifies as transgender, said she is harassed at least once a week when she uses women's bathrooms, where people seem to feel free to bombard her with dirty looks and nasty comments.
That hostility led to violence on Sept. 19, when McDonald's customer Keith Patron allegedly began calling Griffin and boyfriend Jamar McClod names when Griffin tried to use the women's bathroom at the West Third Street fast-food eatery.
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Transgender advocates say that for many transgender and gender-nonconforming people, something as simple as visiting a restroom can make them targets for harassment and violence.
There is actually a web site called “Safe to Pee” that trans-people can list places that are OK use. When I first came out I use to ask other trans-people where it was safe to go, we even had a word for it “trannietized” or in other words that there were other trans-people who visited it there. However, I have a problem with list like that, when the support group where I take care of the website had a list of trans-friendly places and one time we got an ear full from a member who went to a bar that we had on the list and she got harassed there, what we didn’t know was that the bar had changed owners and it became a Country & Western bar. So ever since then I am always leery of lists of safe places because all it takes is one bigot to cause trouble.
The right wing conservations try to create an image that it is dangerous to allow trans-people to use the bathroom, when in reality it is much more likely that it is us that faces danger when we go the bathroom. Do you remember the Baltimore County McDonald's beating of a trans-woman last year? She was beating by to women in the lobby of a McDonald’s restaurant that cause the woman to have a seizure.
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