Re: Panel calls for neutral bathrooms

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> Panel calls for neutral bathrooms
> By Robert Katz
> http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2003/11/21/panel_calls_for_neut.php
> November 21, 2003 in News
> 
> For most people, deciding which bathroom to use in the Regenstein Library
> does not require mental gymnastics. But for some, a trip to the restroom is
> less simple, with gay, lesbian, and transgendered students worried about the
> implications of which bathrooms they enter.

Why the hell would a gay or lesbian be worried?

> Ana Minyan, the moderator of the panel, said that bathrooms will be called
> gender-neutral, rather than co-ed, because, "this terminology is generally
> used to refer to two sexes while the gender-neutral tends to be associated
> with more diversity and fluidity within the sex-gender continuum. 

The what?!?

> As our aim is to make everyone, no matter what their gender and/or sexual 
> persona is, more comfortable, we are using the term gender-neutral."

Speaking of aim, how would a gender-neutral-sans-penis-person use a urinal?

Jim