What About The Transroom?
Whether trans-peoples of any sexual affiliation or denomination or nomenclature thereof should use which bathroom, is a non-issue. Yet, it keeps consuming the nation and deepening the divide between the right or, if you prefer, “Alt-right” ― on the one side, and “progressives,” liberals and all banners of political correctness and their grandmothers, on the other. For the solution to that pseudo problem is very simple: if a trans-operation has been successful, then the question of which bathroom to go would never arise. But the fact that it does, as it is happening now, immediately conveys that somebody has in their hand a winning case of medical malpractice. In other words, if you have been successfully converted into a “woman,” nobody should suspect you are a man, and also the other way around.
Apparently, that where people should to do their business has been made into such political and cultural big deal reveals that the nation, both to its left and to its right and everywhere in-between is undergoing intellectual bankruptcy, and is unable to think up solutions to anything. Too bad there is no Chapter 11th for that. For instance, what about redesigning bathrooms in a way that people feel safe there, without having to interact with those they don’t mean or want to? Say, same facility, different doors, but without interior interconnection. You get in through the door you want. Period.
I know, it’s not that simple, you would say. If we have the same thing in mind that I do, maybe you are right. For at bottom, if there is an issue here, it is this one. Is a fruit that has been organically altered still an apple, just because it looks like it is, although it tastes a dash different, and might be harmful or not to your health? That is the question Republicans would like to ask, but have no mind to formulate. So, it is a philosophical one, after all. If we accept, as “progressives,” liberal and politically correct people of all sorts do, that a surgically and chemically produced subject is a woman or a man in the same right that someone born that way and didn’t deliberately choose to transition into either is, then any fruit is an apple by any other name, taste, and look.
But if only the born-so are men and women in their own right, then the others are not, and should be considered a third sexual entity―a third sex of something. As such, they deserve their own, uniquely adequate bathroom―or rather, a trans-room.
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Transgendered people are still human beings, obviously. But they are not women and men in the same way and to the same natural purpose than the rest of us. It is really not fair―it is rather unjust, to demand of the born-so that they see themselves as sexually identical to the surgically and chemically turned-so―the literally doctored ones.
Now, taking into account that gender identity presupposes sexual interaction in society, while you have your right to become any gender of your choosing, you at the same time do not have the right to impose your choice on the rest of the polity. Therefore, the Transroom.
After all, we can always tell who is a real blonde, and we always prefer original to fakes.
