How do you feel about men who claim to be trans in womens dressing rooms at the gym??

@SarahAndSamantha Yes, I think you did!

@ShaneMckay It was brought up "if they're being respectful, who cares?" You whatabouted it into someone being very disrespectful. Which IS a problem, yes, even I say that. That's the point. If someone goes into a bathroom, is respectful, goes into a stall, does their business, comes out, washes their hands and leaves, what does it matter?

You know, I've heard all these arguments before. Way back in the 80s. Being said about gay guys, in men's rooms. It was BS then about them and it's BS now against us.

@pdockal Absolutely right! It used to be called "COMMON SENSE, COMMON COURTESY"!!

@NerdyPotato It reminds me a lot of Brexit... and the red tape Brexiteers bought on themselves - then you get ten minutes of comedy gold like this from this Brexiteer...

[media=https://youtu.be/oC1UoQ_bJH8]

I'm fortunate in that I don't have to think too much about which bathrooms I use at the moment, given that I've mostly been forced to live as a outwardly appearing woman... but, given the fact that they haven't managed to get my hirsutism under control as a woman and I'm growing even more hair as I age, I'm wondering if I should try laser hair removal (I don't believe the results others say they've had) or just embrace my masculinity.

"I am what I am" is gradually getting old as the change is becoming increasingly noticeable and soon to be ex and my own family are passing hurtful comments and trying to force me to comply with the gender I was assigned at birth... I don't want to be hearing comments on my beard/moustache or lack thereof whenever they see me. I mean, who walks up to a biological man and says to him "You need a shave" or "Ooh, you shaved recently"???

So, if I shave my face, do I use the ladies toilets... do I use the gents if I don't shave??? Do I use the ladies because of what I have between my legs... do I get beaten up if I do??? Do I take the key for the disabled toilets with me when I leave here - because I won't get one in my own right??? These are all questions that I need to find answers to sooner rather than later because I need to know what my plan is...

@HootyTheNightOwl [quote] I mean, who walks up to a biological man and says to him "You need a shave"[/quote]
My dad and my brother. 😅 My dad even went as far as giving me 3 electric razors within a year because I wasn't using the one(s) I already had often enough for his taste.

@NerdyPotato Hmm... Maybe they're part of my family, too???

I asked my mother a few years ago for some specific blades for my wet shaver (keep in mind that I need ID to buy them and they deny me ID) - so she got me an electric shaver... I don't use electric shavers on my face because I never mastered how to stop them from plucking my facial hair out by the root. Yes, it's only my face where they pluck - I shave everywhere else with no problems.

That said, though, I am thinking about using an electric shaver or hair removal cream on my legs going forward because of the reduced sensitivity in one of my legs... I like slicing that leg like donner meat.

@NerdyPotato Abuse does happen in bathrooms, well put.

@NerdyPotato I've noticed the numbers you listed as if to say it's a rarity - but thank you for at least understanding that RAPE happens and restrooms and locker rooms.

But it happens more than the report - far too many abuses go unreported against women in those areas more so in parks.

And you are focused on rape - I mentioned two other things **hidden cameras and peeping under stalls.** Much of which also goes unreported.

I also said this is was the beginning with the trans using women facilities.

@NerdyPotato
And this occurs in the unisex restroom or locker room. And I did mention locker rooms in my initial reply and you seem to also omit those.

https://fairplayforwomen.com/unisex-changing-rooms-put-women-in-danger/

@Patriot96 First things first. Intersex has nothing at all to do with a mental disorder, anymore than my red blood cells being shaped wrong due to my spherocytosis is.

Second of all, fine, let's say me being trans is a mental disorder. Then why are you so against me getting the best treatment for said mental disorder? That's what transitioning is. Whether it's simply socially transitioning or going the full 9 yards.

Sorry I ruined your easter

@Patriot96 You seem triggered.

@Patriot96
I like the way you think

@Patriot96 sick!!

@Mattypp that was a poor attempt at English. But I appreciate the effort, I grade it F+.

@bijouxbroussard Maybe your discomfort is not the priority. It is not the fault of trans people that the gender binary has been so brutally enforced through colonization.

@AmbivalentFriability I understand; my comfort level is a priority to [b]me[/b], and I’m only speaking for myself, based upon [b]my[/b] life experiences.

It may come to a point where everything becomes coed and there are no longer observed gender differences of any kind.

But it will take some getting used to.