Should lady-like male-to-female transexuals use the Mens or Womens restroom?

Please state which region of the planet you live in, if you don't mind.

I don't really care who uses the men's or women's rooms.

Ladies room...a male to female transexual, in my opinion, is a woman...... A delicate flower who should NOT under any circumstances be subjected to the kind of filth that accumulates around urinals. The lighting in a mens room can suck too...not conducive to make up applications or touch ups.

They should use the freak restroom, naturally.

Can anyone here tell me (Jas?) whether it is, in fact, the "equipment" that makes them legally male? As far as restrooms go, stall walls are opaque, so only looky-loos should be upset

We should have more unisex bathrooms. Studies have shown that unisex are usually the cleanest bathrooms of the three major types.

Use the restroom for the sex you are, not the sex you wish you were.

Lets have unisex locker rooms, too.

I think a transexual would be more likely to make men uncomfortable than women. That's what I think anyway... I don't care who is in the public restroom with me. There are stall doors.

eris: yep, sure is, at least in California, USA but it might vary in each state.
Thank you all for answering. So far since I had library security escort me out of a womans room once, I choose the mens room, and yet whenever I ask for a key, it always turns out to be the womans. It is seriously the biggest downer about being TS, being reluctant to use public restrooms.

eris: However, the olympics uses the standard of genetic gender, though that's always under debate. Hormones do reduce muscle, increase thighs and hips, soften the skin, stop male pattern baldness, thin body hair, and develop breasts. If taken before puberty they will prevent adams apple and deeper vocal chords, but only surgery can change that later in life. The oddest thing is they radically increase the number of dendrytes, which might explain why women think more ambient, and men more focused. Of every psche med I've taken, estrogen has actually been the most notably effective. No studies have yet been published on this application.

Brian: could this be due to the fact that people hate them and so there are less people using them to make them dirty in the first place? :)

If the perceived problem is males seeing women undressed or urinating, then the problem is voyerism, not transexuality.

Wynkin: That never occurred to me. I don't like disturbing people, unless it's a friend and I'm trying to make a point. I hate having to hide in a stall till the coast is clear to wash my hands, so that my appearance does not shake up and worry some anita bryant tractor repairman or little old lady. I thank God when i find those unisex private restrooms. If unisex ones with multiple stalls exist, I've never seen them, but I'd be comfortable there too, I think.

I think I'll switch to the ladies room. I am really tired of having to wipe the seat clean all the time.

has someone seen Better Than Chocolate recently? :)

We should make all bathrooms unisex.

jen, is "m-f" = mother-fudgeer?

then "u-f" would be Uncle Fudgea?

bill, unisex bathrooms.....you get my vote. I never use the urinals if I can avoid it. I feel urinals demean the male homo sapiens. Only dogs pee against a wall. With unisex bathrooms perhaps we can be rid of urinals.

Architects have to plan on 6-1 stall ratios in public facilities because women have so many things encumbering them.
My: Are you telling me men didn't pee standing up before the urinal was invented? But yes, i agree, then we could install those drinking fountain - hair dryer combos the French use, I think they're called bidet's. I started my ladies room policy today, & feel so much more comfortable, having made a decision and sat down for my right to use a restroom without fear. I asked at the library where the restroom was. She recommended one then changed her mind to the womans as I said thanks.

Lilith Fair!

What about it? Was it a facility planning disaster?

miykal: How can you say 'only dogs...' when people do it all the time? I do it and I'm not a dog, at least I don't think I am. Peeing against a wall increases the altitude of your target, resulting in a shorter stream and, as a result, less spray and less noise on impact. Very civilized.

In a unisex bathroom there would be both urinals and tampon dispensers, not neither.

Whichever they want.

I suppose they ought to use the ladies room, because I'm afraid they'd have a good chance of getting the crap beaten out of them if they go in the men's room...depending on the type of establishment, of course. It'd probably be a good idea to pee sitting down, so as not to freak out the women.

I guess whichever they feel most convenient with.

For their own sake, I say the ladies' room. They're less likely to get their ass kicked in there.

Jasmine - Womens' rest rooms can get pretty dirty, too. Honestly, how some women manage to pee on the seat and not clean it up is beyond me... and it happens soooo often! :(

I like how in California it's standard to have those paper seat protectors in each stall...

I like the rest rooms at Grendel's Den in Cambridge, Mass: "Either" and "Or." I always had the urge to take a marker and make 'em into "Neither" and "Nor"... ;)

I said ladies room, but really whichever they prefer.

hmm.. wonder what's going on with good ole Jasmine.

Why don't they just have public restrooms (as in some places) where males, females, disabled and transsexuals can use with privacy. Where I live I'm sure a detectable transsexual would get the sh;t beaten out of them if they came into the male room.

Whichever one isn't going to make them look out of place. Really.