End The Bathroom Wars

Out society is finally, albeit slowly, moving away from ruthlessly enforcing strict binary gender identities. For reasons unknown to me this is making some people very uncomfortable. Those uncomfortable souls lack any real argument for why this move is unacceptable so they've resorted to emotional appeals. The most common form of this manifests in an obsession with bathrooms. When a transgender individual expresses a desire to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as implications that they're really sexual predators wanting to prey on innocent girls are made (apparently these bathroom obsessed individuals don't realize female-to-male transgender individuals exist).

In the most recent episode of this bathroom obsession a bunch of high school students staged a walkout:

(KMOV.com) – More than 150 students walked out of Hillsboro High School over a dispute about the use of the girl’s locker room by a transgender student.

The walkout lasted for about two hours. Roughly 30-40 people showed support for senior Lila Perry, who wants to use the girls’ locker room during gym class. Perry was born a male but said she has identified as a female since 13.

“There’s a lot of ignorance, they are claiming that they’re uncomfortable. I don’t believe for a second that they are. I think this is pure and simple bigotry,” said Perry.

A short distance away, a counter protest was being held by people claiming they have relatives at the high school.

“Boys needs to have their own locker room. Girls need to have their own locker room and if somebody has mixed feelings where they are, they need to have their own also,” said protester Jeff Childs.

I'm a peacemaker by nature... you're not buying that, are you? Admittedly I'm an extremely opinionated man with an obvious bias on this topic. But like Thorgeir Thorkelsson my bias doesn't prevent me from being capable of advocating for a mutually beneficial outcome.

The fact of the matter is the strict binary gender identity is becoming a thing of the past (and good riddance, people should be free to define themselves on their own terms). That being the case segregating bathrooms by gender is silly. Why not just give everybody an individual stall so they can do their business in peace? It would allow these bathroom obsessed individuals to finally calm the fuck down and alleviate us men from ensuring we're always in compliance with proper bathroom etiquette.

This is the setup at the Kitty Cat Klub in Minneapolis. The bathroom area is located in the basement. It's composed of individual stalls and a common sink for hand washing. In my opinion it's the best setup because it isn't based on assumptions about customers and fulfills customers' expectations that a bathroom will be made available.