If we all knew where we can safely do our business, what do we need gender for?
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April 19, 2018, may mark an important milestone in the cultural evolution of homo sapiens. The US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit of Virginia, on this day in history, sided with the US Education Department, that Gavin Grimm should not be forced to use a school lavatory, that didn’t match his gender identity.
The little boy’s room has been the big bully’s victim hunting ground since the movement away from the one room school house began. How many men have seen a fight go down in a school lavatory, raise your hand? How many of you completed a high school education without ever once having a healthy bowel movement at school, (sick bowel moments don’t count) for fear of being vulnerable to attack.
Grimm, a high school junior, may have never seen a fight in a male only school rest room because being born biologically female, he hasn’t been allowed to go there.
The little boy’s room has been the big bully’s victim hunting ground since the movement away from the one room school house began.
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Many schools are in poor physical condition. Funds are lacking to renovate lavatories. Dreaming is still free. Imagine a world where all public piss, poop and shower facilities are private or at least partitioned. As a heterosexual man in his sixties I am past caring what anyone thinks about how I look naked in the gym locker room, but still think that providing private part privacy in public buildings of prime importance.
If you can imagine a day where the only place you can find a Men’s Room sign was in an antique shop, can you imagine a day were their would be no more utility in people having gender identity restrcitions. Imagine a couple of the future who isn’t interested in the social significance in the nature of their below the belt bumps. Clothing and accessories, and the treatment of hair, would only signify cosmetic preferences. There is no compelling need to advertise from a distance one’s physical capacity for procreation.
There is one important thing that nearly all women and a few men want some “at a distance information” on. That is rape perpetrator potential. Some might think a visible tattoo or lapel pin could be mandated to identify who is male for that purpose. A better way to go is to get serious about sexual assault prevention.
We have a way to go before The Good Men Project needs to change its name. I do hope that the conversation, that nobody is having, will be more and more about the abolishment of gender restrictions. The prophetic handwriting may now be on the shit house wall, “Grimm was here.” If so, that would be great.
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