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<\/a><\/p>\nLook, we all get it: \u00a0an individual who has transitioned is in a position where you can\u2019t just demand they use the locker rooms corresponding to their sex at birth.<\/p>\n
But at the same time, well, it\u2019s driving me batty when people treat this as only an issue of bathrooms, and something to get past just by not being prudish.<\/p>\n
So here are a dozen scenarios.<\/p>\n
Which of these individuals would you feel comfortable using the locker room at a public pool along wtih your 7 year old daughter?<\/p>\n
1) a cisgender man<\/p>\n
1a) who is dressing as a woman in order to access the locker room and look at naked women and expose himself<\/p>\n
1b) who is dressing as a woman on a dare from friends<\/p>\n
1c) who is just wearing ordinary (male) street clothes\/swim trunks<\/p>\n
2) a biologically-male individual who identifies as \u201cgenderqueer\u201d or \u201cagender\u201d<\/p>\n
3) a biologically-male individual in the beginning stages of transitioning, who is consequently dressing as a woman (long hair, women\u2019s clothes) but hasn\u2019t had any treatment affecting their body?<\/p>\n
3a) a biologically-male individual who is not \u201cout\u201d as transgender, but spends occasional weekends out-of-town cross-dressing<\/p>\n
4) a biologically-male individual who has begun hormone treatments but has not had any surgery<\/p>\n
5) a biologically-male individual who has had surgery<\/p>\n
6) a biologically-female individual who has begun hormone therapy and has had \u201ctop\u201d surgery and from outside appearances is neither obviously male nor female but dresses in a masculine fashion<\/p>\n
7) a biologically-female individual who has had extensive surgery and whose hormone treatments have substantially altered the appearance, including beard, muscles, etc.<\/p>\n
8) an intersex person (that is, for whom ambiguousness about sex is a matter of biology, not any artificial hormones or surgeries)<\/p>\n
9) anyone who wants to be there and prefers it to the men\u2019s locker room.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s get down to specifics, and the hard cases.<\/p>\n
ADDED: \u00a0to clarify, the \u201c7 year old girl\u201d is there not because of fears that girls are particularly at risk of being leered at, but because, last I checked, the consensus in our society was that girls at or past this age should not be exposed to naked men; that is, they should not be viewing penises. \u00a0At least, I presume this consensus still holds . . .<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
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