Transgender Bathroom Dilemma

Reference: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lucas-waldron/finding-a-place-to-go-the-transgender-bathroom-dilemma_b_2189526.html

                Could you imagine the “black and white” bathroom dilemma? Waldren explains that it is the anecdote which shows two layers of problems to be addressed in choosing a bathroom to use. The first issues is that any person who is not marked "Caucasian" or "African-American" cannot use the bathroom. Secondly, black people and white people have to identify themselves as either black or white to use the bathroom. Waldren says that this bathroom segregation is also relevant to transgender issue; she says “to have "male"- and "female"-delegated bathrooms is to say that there are only men and women in this world.”  Therefore, it is not comfortable for transgender to use the bathroom because they have to choose their gender then. Everyone should grant unrestricted restroom access; her experience with bathroom selection makes me notice less demanding genderless bathrooms and more toward finding a way to fit into the binary bathrooms.

Now many universities in the United States set aside a block of gender-neutral rooms for transgender and gender non-conforming students. A lot of students have been really happy with that because, for them, it’s not overly bringing attention to the fact that this is a change that people want. Interestingly, in Japan, which I am from, people do not think about the problem and institutions does not care about those people by set rooms for transgender. As we learned in a class, majority, heterosexual, does not consider sexuality so much and take the right for granted; on the other hand, minority, homosexual or bisexual, is thinking about their sexuality and facing problem of discrimination. To solve the problem, especially heterosexual should strive to understand minority and think about how we can make facilities more comfortable for all people including homosexual and bisexual.