Comments on: Conservatives battle Gainesville trans rights law

By: Bud Burgoon-Clark

Bud Burgoon-Clark — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:21:13 +0000

Are transsexual / transgender / intersex cases of rape and/or child molestation numerous enough to even BE on the RADAR? *I’ve* never heard of one, and I’ve worked in large urban GLBTQAI communities all of my adult life.

As far as conservatives’ scare ads, two points:

NO CHILD, male OR female, should be allowed to use a public toilet without an adult accompanying them. Yes, this gets to be a problem with opposite-sex single parents; perhaps robotic “one-holers” *are* the answer … they’d certainly be *cleaner* than most public toilets.

2. There is NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING to prevent a rapist or a child molester from entering a public toilet NOW. (see #1, above). That’s scary, but that’s the world we live in. *I* don’t use public toilets unless it’s ABSOLUTELY necessary, and I’m 64 years old and in a wheelchair!

Cheers,

Bud Burgoon-Clark
San Diego CA USA

By: Summer

Summer — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:23:38 +0000

responding to Sean Galadar. I know that there are unisex bathrooms, but it really doesn’t seem to address the point. I’m female, I use the women’s restroom. I go in use it and leave, I don’t do it to leer at other women. I don’t understand why this is such a big issue with conservatives. I’m more scared of using the bathroom sometimes than I think cisgendered women would be. Besides, what am I to do while I wait for the unisex bathrooms to be built, cross my legs and wait?

By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:44:52 +0000

We beat the religious creeps in montgomery county, and it can be done there also. If you guys will contribute some money to “Equality is Gainsvilles biz”. I am kinda tapped out after 30k for Prop 8 defeat (came close) and $3k for Montgomery county MD – we beat the religious freaks. Trans prot. stayed.

By: Sean Galadar

Sean Galadar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:30:43 +0000

There are alternatives: provide single restrooms of the robot type that we have in Australia which are not gender specific; or follow the model more common in Europe of unisex restrooms with cubicles only (no urinals). Or the transgender people could be required to continue to use the separate, non-gender-specific disabled toilets which should already have been provided by any enlightened municipality.

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:23:03 +0000

If Prop. 8 taught us anything – it should be not to pussy-foot around the issue. The general population isn’t as delicate or misinformed as the “No on 8″ campaign seemed to think.

Confront the issue head on! State why these other ads are intentionally misleading or blatantly distortions.

Expose their lies with the truth. If people still vote against trans-people, it will just show that more education and visibility is still necessary. Hopefully, common sense will prevail.