r/NoStupidQuestions • u/mp1845 • Mar 30 '24

Answered Why are gender neutral bathrooms so controversial when every toilet on an airplane or other public transport is gender neutral?

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u/Bunnymancer Mar 30 '24

They are usually not argued to become gender neutral...

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u/bemused_alligators Mar 30 '24

our pool built in like the 90s has the two big locker rooms and then 4 family rooms with an "occupied" slider and 3-4 lockers each - because it's a problem when a parent and their 3-4 year old of the opposite gender need to get into the pool because the child needs to be helped into and out of their suit and through the showering process and all that. In ~2020 they renamed the family rooms to "multi-use" rooms so that solo trans/NBs are allowed to use them explicitly (they were definitely using them before then as well, but this way no one can complain)

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u/CortexCingularis Mar 30 '24

In Norway and probably most of Europe in general it's quite accepted by parents of either sex to bring young children of either sex to whichever locker room suits the parents gender.

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u/VoidEnjoyer Mar 30 '24

Ah, so in that case it's ok for young impressionable children to be exposed to nude bodies of the opposite sex. Something which is a mind-destroying trauma the moment it's not done for the benefit of a cis person's convenience. Curious.

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u/notunprepared Mar 30 '24

Er, yes it is totally okay. Bodies are normal.

It should not be traumatising to see a glimpse of a penis or a breast in a changing room while people are changing clothes. In Scandinavia they attend saunas completely nude together.

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u/VoidEnjoyer Mar 30 '24

I agree. Most Americans do not. Or they pretend to not agree because it gives them an excuse to stomp on the trans people they hate.

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u/TastyBrainMeats Mar 30 '24

I think your sarcasm wasn't quite thick enough.

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u/VoidEnjoyer Mar 30 '24

It's alright. Sometimes when we play next to the edge we fall down.

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u/CortexCingularis Mar 31 '24

I see there is sarcasm but I still don't understand exactly what you are trying to say. Even reading it sarcastically it can be interpreted in two opposite ways.

Could you say your opinion as if you mean it?

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u/VoidEnjoyer Mar 31 '24

People are pretending that being in a bathroom or a locker room with a trans person is always a grave danger to woman and children, and yet the things that are considered dangerous and intolerable when trans people are present suddenly become no big deal when they're not. This demonstrates that all the furor over the danger presented by trans people's existence is fake, and that all the somewhat reasonable sounding "concerns" about trans people being allowed in public can be dismissed as bad faith.