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Or "lord, we've got 10 minutes before the curtain bell rings and there's no damned line-up in the men's..."
 
Silence and no eye contact is the unwritten rule in the men's room
It was quite a cultural shift for me to get used to the ladies room
 
I was in Vancouver airport one time and it sounded like a samurai doing harikari in one stall. I'd say guys are usually pretty quiet on the dumper, but this guy was pushing hard enough to deliver a baby.
Had to catch flight, but really was interested to see what he looked like.
 
Now on another matter.....
This week was very hard on me and others in the LGBTQ spectrum.
The Trump administration launched a full out attack on our rights.
- banning trans persons from the military
- launching an animus brief to the supreme court challenging that LGBTQ persons are not covered under the sex category of TITLE VII
This is serious stuff and it affects us here because this sort of thing is supported by prominent politicians here in Canada.
Laws are important because discrimination and persecution are just under the surface
 
RitaTG said:
Now on another matter.....
This week was very hard on me and others in the LGBTQ spectrum.
The Trump administration launched a full out attack on our rights.
- banning trans persons from the military
- launching an animus brief to the supreme court challenging that LGBTQ persons are not covered under the sex category of TITLE VII
This is serious stuff and it affects us here because this sort of thing is supported by prominent politicians here in Canada.
Laws are important because discrimination and persecution are just under the surface
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It might be worth noting that the Trump administration actually hasn't banned trans persons from the military. Not yet anyway. He tweeted it. I think it was the very next day that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that no orders or directives had been given to the military. Rumour has it that conservative Republicans were threatening to block funding of "the wall" unless Trump denied funding for surgery for trans people in the military. He went one step farther and said he'd ban trans people from the military. Whether he actually goes through with it and turns his tweet into a policy directive is an open question. He tweets a lot. Most of it just seems to be the ranting of an angry man who's responding to the last thing he heard.
 
The things you learn in threads like these. :LOL:

I've been interested in the responses to the president's dictate in trans people in the military. It is nice to see so much opposition. Dare I hope times are changing? Okay, I know there is still a lot of room for change. It will be interesting to see where this goes and how it affects the president.
 
BetteTheRed said:
You mean, you don't? Talk about "men not asking for directions"....sheesh...
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Even trump as master and commander forgot to direct the militancy ... as they only follow order(s)! then the stink (PEW) in the winds of the stall ... something found in the stable with other delights ... bairn yard creativity ... rheum for babes?

Wind stall? That'd allow fa'lout ... Lute ists ... Pan Dells mona ... gasp? Intake or uptake ...
 
revsdd said:
It might be worth noting that the Trump administration actually hasn't banned trans persons from the military.
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I think it is worth noting that with respect to Trump tweets and actual action there is very little correlation. And where there has been correlation (ie., the Travel Ban) the action has been deemed discriminatory denied by courts of law.

I understand that many in the LGBTQ community have heard for years that they should be patient and wait. Considering the dumpster fire that is the Trump administration it doesn't seem like waiting is actually injurious. Let the screw-up happen and then continue as if nothing happened. The egg will be upon him more than anyone else.

Attack the inevitable tweets, mock them, ridicule them (all really par for the course of this presidency) but sit back and watch the dunce in chief scuttle his own boat. It may be cathartic.
 
I have never lived in residence, so I am not sure what this exactly means- are there usually two people to a room and they mix and match now by chance? Or do people have single rooms anyway? Are there single washrooms and showers or are large shower rooms now for anybody who identifies as whatever? If so, at a time when rape at Universities is just starting to be discussed and it has been revealed that Universities had handled incidents very badly, just mixing everybody appears to me to increase a risk. Because I wonder if rapists wouldn"t prefer mixed gender washrooms just for the kick of it. So I wonder what safeguards had actually been implemented in the plan.
 
RitaTG said:
Thank you..... very interesting and about time ☺
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You're welcome RitaTG. Ryerson, I feel, has come up with a great idea. Those who don't want to identify a gender don't have to, and those who do want to can. I feel it will work out really well for all involved.
 
I am going to a reunion this Sunday of the first truly co-educational residence at the U of T. Double rooms were single gender, i.e. not mixing M and F (T was beyond describing back then), but bathrooms and floors were completely co-ed. It was much safer, and MUCH less sexual than you might anticipate.
 
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