The bathroom issue

Unfortunately, I have not been allowed to transition really. Everyone at my school knows me as a girl, which seriously sucks. So I continue to use the girls' bathroon wherever I go that doesn't have gender neutral bathrooms because I haven't really been allowed to transition properly.

 

Yeah. I prefer men's rooms generally but gender neutral was what I tended to gravitate towards when I was in that early stage of my transition where using a men's room wasn't (and probably still isn't if I'm in a bad area) safe.

Needs to be more around, agreed. I knew where all the gender neutral bathrooms were by my second week on campus and it wasn't just trans people who needed them. People with caretakers who were physically disabled. People who needed a changing room, etc. parents and more.

So better trans inclusive laws and gender neutral rooms. Works for me.

 

i just don't. i've got a bladder of steel.

 

Same here. I tend to hold it...men's rooms being generally disgusting, and social anxiety about walking into, well, either restroom.

 

I try to go into family/gender neutral bathrooms but if I have to pick I use the women's room. I don't really look female at this point but I don't look male either and I feel like the worst a girl would do is yell at me but a guy might beat me up :eek:

 

I use the girl's... I try to use it when know one is in there...

 

I use female publicly. Come Oct. It will be illegal for anyone to prevent me from doing so anyways, not that I've ever had issues mind you

 

I've only ever used the men's room, but I don't pass at all.

 

I prefer male bathrooms I don't get as much of a problem it seems. I think neutral bathrooms would be best.

 

id prefer the gender neutral or family, but i usually use which ever one i want or is closer for convenience, but i prefer when no ones in either, so because regardless of which one i use i still get petty name calling
but you live the same place i live

 

There's an abundance of gender neutral bathrooms throughout my university's campus, which I'm pretty grateful for. Extremely, extremely grateful.

When I'm somewhere that doesn't have gender neutral bathrooms, I just quickly go into the men's room and get it done and over with. I don't pass well enough to feel entirely safe in male bathrooms, but I feel far too uncomfortable going into the women's.

 

I'm really uncomfortable using the men's room anymore and hate it more than anything. Sadly the Home Depot I work at has no gender neutral bathrooms. My closest friends have all told me I should just start using the women's room which I've done but only after hours, but until my "medical accommodation" with the company goes through I guess I'm stuck.

Every place else though I just use the women's room.

 

I use mostly the men's room now. I use the gender neutral one at my workplace. I like it better since it is not used very much and is usually really clean.

 

I generally hold it. At work I use the girl's bathroom. But that's because me and my manager agreed I shouldn't use the mens until I'm on hormones and can pass more. I don't mind much.

 

Home Depot is actually putting in a medical accommodation for me to use the women's room....

 

I'm lucky that where I stay (a residential hall in my uni, the Australian National University) there are unisex bathrooms. The bathroom is right in front of my room as well. =)

 

I still subconsciously look for family bathrooms in public if I get too self conscious. I don't think I went into a female bathroom in over a year and I just got lucky lately with public bathrooms, either it being deserted or having a few people who barely notice me.

But like others said here, I try to hold if if possible. I guess it goes back to my hate of being forced into a certain restroom during my school years, especially in high school being an awakened baby queerbat.

 

Gender neutral or disabled. If not i dont go.