Zee Pepper, a trans and aboriginal man in Melbourne, Australia, is speaking out after experiencing allegedly blatant transphobia in a restaurant at the start of Pride Month. [...] Pepper was dining at the Soho restaurant in Australia’s second city with his mother and stepsister when he went to use the restroom. He opted for the unisex handicapped bathroom, as he usually does when there’s a choice between unisex and men’s bathrooms.

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[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 20 hours ago

Gendered restrooms only exist because men wanted to keep women from being out of the house for too long because public restrooms were men only. Then they used them to keep people of color from being out in public too much by making the "colored" bathrooms as unbearable to use as possible. Now it's trans people. It was never about safety and always about discrimination.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

"let people piss" my eternally controversal opinion

[–] growsomethinggood@reddthat.com 9 points 19 hours ago

"Let my people piss" -trans Moses

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 7 points 21 hours ago

"Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall" -- Bob Dylan (context)