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What do you think of the idea behind "gender neutral" restrooms?
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
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22 Comments:
Good for them! Hopefully the government won't take that away from them like they are taking everything else away from everyone.
I am all for family or handicap restrooms, but if someone cant decide if they are a boy or a girl they really should be removed from the general public
Puh-Lease. Can't decide if you are male or female. Then "go" out in the back yard like our dogs do it. Remember these people might be teaching you children some day and they can't make up their minds about their gender.
Well it's pretty clear Kent State is charging TOO much for tuition if they spend it on this. What next will they waste money on?
What the hell! There is something seriously wrong with the administration at Kent. Who is burning money coming up with these hair brained ideas. No wonder it is so expensive to go to college.
I am quite supportive of this gesture. It should make a few transitioning lives easier, and will hopefully raise awareness on some transgender issues.
Gender identity isn't something people have the option to change. People do what they have to in order to be comfortable with their bodies. Props to the people who make that choice easier.c
Why don't solve the whole problem and just put "Restroom" on the Door.
This is so stupid, but it makes sense that a school like Kent is doing it.
Why even bother with designations in the first place, then? As a female, I would be be pretty ticked to find a man in the women's restroom.
This will only make it easier for sexual predators to have easier access to their victims!
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First off, some people are born (physically) trans-gendered, so I think the disparaging comments toward these folks in unwarranted. What's more, people should have the freedom to take a piss in comfort. Good work, KSU.
This kind of idiotic nonsense is to be expected from a school that gave a terrorist tenure.
It's really very simple, if you've got male parts you're male, female parts you're female, both you get to choose which restroom you want to use but in this case Kent is just pandering to perverts who are cross dressers.
Please.....let's make this simple...if you stand to pee, go into the mens room, if you sit, go to the ladies room.....what a waste of the students money
The responses to this article posted here are rude, insensitive and dripping with ignorance. It reminds me of the idiotic reaction to racial integration that people now would never say. Does having a separate bathroom have a negative impact on anyone else? And, for those who haven't bothered to think it out, it's probably a single-person bathroom with a lock, so not a safety issue. Allow people who have a lifelong struggle a moment of peace and show that we, as Ohioans, are proud to be progressive and accommodating.
Is it too much just to ask for a clean bathroom wherever I may go?
If someone is gender confused, I don't object to them working it out. I do object to spending tax dollars to facilitate this sort of nonsense. The only advantage to the new signage is it alerts the rest of us to steer clear.
This is ridiculous! I am not against gay/lesbian/transgender people but you need to pick a bathroom to go in to. If you are not comfortable doing that, then you probably aren't totally sure of your decision anyway. A family or handicap bathroom is a different story. Wake up Kent State and stop wasting money and encouraging this trend!
Family bathrooms are all over the place, and they're very needed. I have a grown handicapped son. I'm not comfortable in the men's restroom, and women are very disturbed if I take him in the women's bathroom. Not everyone "fits" labels. Everyone needs a place to feel comfortable when using the restroom, and why you're using a family restroom is no one's business. They only accomodate one family or person at a time, so don't worry about perverts! That's silly. They're the safest public restrooms around.
I have a friend who sometimes crossdresses, and sometimes, the restroom issue would come up if he goes places. If he's dressed as a woman, he usually uses the women's restroom, if dressed as a man, the men's room. One time we went to a Village Discount Outlet thrift store in Akron, and he went into the ladies' room. I didn't know how many stalls were inside that restroom (the men's room there had one toilet and one urinal), and I kept watch to make sure that a woman wouldn't walk in while my friend was in there. By the time he left the ladies' room, there was a line of women waiting to get in. My friend was scolded by the manager of the Village Discount Outlet, saying "that men should use the men's room". Two weeks later, I went to that same Village Discount Outlet by myself, and noticed a sign posted, saying, "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Pants, No Service"...the "No Pants" on the sign most likely referring to the ladies' room incident involving my friend. Now if he goes out crossdressed, he seeks out single-stall restrooms rather than multi-stall ones if he needs to "heed nature's call". Unisex and transgender restrooms are needed, since there are many people that do dress in the opposite sex.
Some of the negative posts show just how much people bothered to read the whole article and how little they understand the issues such people face.
And I also bet they thought that disrcimination was only BLACK and WHITE.
How about a men's room, ladies room, and an immoral choice room? This is why tuition keeps going up? Lets see, they wan't us all to learn Spanish so we don't offend illegal immigrants, now we have to pander to those that can't decide if they want to stand or sit.
Look this is America and we speak English here I dont have a problem with others comming here but once here become legal and learn English.. I am so tired of calling some place and the systems tells me for English Press 1 there should be no other choice... if we make a purchase the manual has like 3 pages in english and then 30 pages in other languages ... yes let them come here but like our fore fathers did get a job become legal and learn English... i work in a store and i get sick when parents bring little children in to translate for them u want to live here and work here then abide by our laws and become legal and speak ENGLISH
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