Sure, maybe Georgetown doesn’t have the money to create more single-stall, gender-neutral bathrooms to appease the (small-ish) trans and handicapped communities. What all these people are getting upset about is YOUR reaction to their demands for equal treatment, Georgetown. So instead of continuing to insult them, how about listening to them for a change? You give them enough bs to deal with in their daily lives.

I think university funds would be better spent educating people to appreciate others as human beings. Then maybe trans people could use the bathroom without being afraid of idiots who call them out for walking through the wrong door to take a leak.

Yes Tim, this stuff is quite common. And yes, with Georgetown students. I think the only people who would know this would be the LGBTQ people who have lived it. Why are you so focused on arguing with people about their very personal experiences? These things do happen, and they are not isolated incidents.

“after 4 years at that school and having never once seen what you’re talking about”

If you’re not LGBTQ, of course you haven’t seen it. Those people who don’t live it tend not to notice. It’s something you probably have to experience to understand.

(I am asking questions. You just answered one of them in your response. I’ll go on.)

When does this violent thrusting at lesbians happen on campus? Is it perpetrated by Georgetown students? Is it really all that common, or even an occasional occurrence? Or are we talking about a few isolated incidents?

Look, I’m not saying no one ever harasses LGBTQ students. And even one such act of harassment is one too many. But after 4 years at that school and having never once seen what you’re talking about, I just don’t believe that it is so common as to turn Georgetown as a whole into an entirely anti-LGBTQ atmosphere.

“Please cite some evidence of this atmosphere you speak of. Please.”
We all know about the particular incident which stirred some controversy up in here. What everyone isnt so familiar with, though, is the every day acts of violence against our community. Feeling violently threatened as a lesbian with her girlfriend, for example, by a group of men whistling/thrusting/commenting at them. This is a pretty threatening environment.
I could go on and on citing specific acts that create an unwelcoming environment, but I just frankly dont want to spend my time on that when I (and so many others) must live those experiences every day. If you want to know about our experiences, educate yourself – ask questions, read books, join groups, become an ally.

The people doing the gender-neutral bathrooms campaign are not advocating for multi-stalled gender-neutral bathrooms. They are going around campus to make sure that the single-stalled bathrooms that already exist on campus are marked correctly and legally (which many of them are not – there are several single-stall bathrooms on campus that do have sex/gender designations…which is illegal…and it does unnecessarily alienate anyone who doesn’t identify with a male/female binary).

It never ceases to amaze me how unwilling Georgetown students and blog readers are to actually educate themselves before they start acting like they know what they’re talking about.