CityOnAHillPress.com – By Marian O’Connor
Lack of single-stalled, gender-neutral bathrooms forces transgendered people to choose sides
Have you ever been afraid to use a bathroom?
For most of us, the question has never crossed our minds. When nature calls, most of us don?t take the time to deliberate which door to go through.
But when gender isn?t so clear-cut, the lines blur and controversy begins to brew.
In Lucy?s case, the bathroom door wasn?t necessarily the issue. It was the reaction of the people standing outside the bathroom that created the negative scene?one that quickly elevated. Lucy, a transgendered female and Santa Cruz resident, was walking out of a bathroom at the Catalyst nightclub when a drunken man accosted her.
Lucy thinks it might have her height that made her stand out, or perhaps her large hands, but whatever the reason, after leaving the ladies room the man started screaming in her face, ?You?re a man! You?re a man!?