http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/08/ken-schram-says-people-who-may-actually-be-pedophiles-andor-perverts-could-be-posing-as-transgender-to-hang-out-in-womens-locker-rooms Comments On: Ken Schram Says People Who "May Actually Be Pedophiles and/or Perverts" Could Be Posing as Transgender to Hang Out in Women's Locker Rooms by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by clashfan]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:16:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:18:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by PanWhale]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:03:31 -0800 The Stranger
Please qualify your statements before allowing me to do what i proposed and being arrested.
Posted by PanWhale]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:55:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by watchout5]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:48:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by vitupera]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:36:05 -0800 The Stranger As a trans woman who had to endure years of processing various IDs, go through hundreds of gatekeepers before I could get my surgery, I can assure you that despite my lesbian orientation I was never excited about having sex in a public bathroom. But then, I am not Catholic. Before anyone makes crazy accusations, I invite you to walk a mile in my size 14 heels....
Posted by spirit110]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:07:12 -0800 The Stranger
Because, there aren't any ?

The swimming pool I go to has no male/female separation : it's all individual changing stalls and one big common shower area. Males and females shower together, wearing their bathing suits. To wash your privates you put your soapy hands inside your bathing suit. Nobody's naked and nobody leers. Problem solved.

Mixed-gender restrooms with stalls would also solve the toilet problem. We all have to pee, male and female, cis or trans. Why should we segregate according to gender in order to do so ?

Besides, it would also help single mothers with sons. I hate having to let my teen son out of my sight and hearing in public restrooms - it's not safe. But he's too old now to get into the women's room with me and the younger ones. This male/female segregation is really, really dumb for everybody.
Posted by sissoucat]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:38:27 -0800 The Stranger
http://lillyslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2012…

The boogeyman callouts and "I'm really just uncomfortable with a potential for dongs" is so exasperating for me! I swear, I am not trying to flash anybody, I just want to go swimming. By all means, chip in for my surgery if you want to rid the world of the evil evil penis, but there's a point where a trans woman has been on hormones for two years and looks totally like a lady with the exception of bottom surgery. Would you have this woman use a male locker room just because you're uncomfortable? http://theblogismine.theblogismineltd.ne…
Posted by WristViolins]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:45:35 -0800 The Stranger
Jon Schram was a friend of mine. RIP.
Posted by Fuck You Murderer]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:37:59 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Hawke]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:14:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Hawke]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:57:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Spike1382]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:45:28 -0800 The Stranger
This woman obviously did nothing wrong. This video is not only obviously disgusting, but should give pause to anyone who finds themselves agreeing with it's sentiment.
Posted by AnotherGirlNextDoor]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:34:05 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by ams_]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:53:27 -0800 The Stranger
I can understand why both transmen and transwomen would prefer to use women's facilities and take part in women's activities. Transmen because they aren't regarded as "real" men, and the risk of being the victim of anti-trans violence is too great. (Women don't exactly have a track record of beating, raping, or murdering transgender people.) And transwomen because that's who they are, and also anti-trans violence.

But we still seem to be heading in the direction of: cisgendered men and everyone else. And that everyone else is getting lumped into women's spaces is just something that cisgendered women have to suck up and deal with (according to the commenter @17 and 18).
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:49:11 -0800 The Stranger
@35 - The high school and the swim club use the facilities due to Evergreen's generous choice to open their facilities to the community. Those people know what kind of place Evergreen is - their sense of entitlement and different values than Evergreen is what should be at issue.

It's times like these that I am even more proud to be a Greener.

P.S. You capitalize "the" in The Evergreen State College (TESC).
Posted by Soupytwist]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:44:41 -0800 The Stranger
I'm a cisgendered, straight, traditionally attractive male and I've felt intensely uncomfortable in men's locker rooms. I can hardly blame anybody who deviates from the norm at all for feeling the same.

I think a lot of people agree that men's behaviour in places where they think they are safe from criticism is a huge problem.
Posted by Asparagus!]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:39:30 -0800 The Stranger
Note - I think this is really, really different from general bathroom issues where there is no public nudity. In that case, presumably no one is the wise and I don't see the issue.
Posted by sara]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:19:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Brend Zen]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:12:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by keshmeshi]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:13:42 -0800 The Stranger
Evergreen shares its locker rooms with a high school and a swimming club that young children apparently belong to.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:08:00 -0800 The Stranger
I've never really gotten the restroom freakouts anyway. Doesn't everyone pretty much grow up in a household where they share a bathroom with siblings or other family members with differing parts?
Posted by Geni]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:43:36 -0800 The Stranger
Your precious snowflakes have already seen everything you don't want them to see. They've already heard everything you don't want them to hear. They've already done everything you don't want them to do.

Your kids have already grown up. Please do the same.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:42:52 -0800 The Stranger
I heard about this story a few weeks back here;

http://bugbrennan.com/2012/11/03/watchin…

and I have noticed some debate on sex vs. gender is going on here;
http://sexnotgender.wordpress.com/


Posted by watching]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:37:50 -0800 The Stranger