The New York Times Provokes Another Uproar about Sex with a One-sided Essay

Judith Shulevitz, who writes regularly for The New York Times, penned an essay last weekend, entitled, "Is it time to desegregate the sexes?" From the title alone one would be forgiven if she believed that this essay would be perceived as very supportive by the trans community. Alas, that wasn't the case.

Shulevitz quickly shifts from the bathroom wars, exemplified by the passage to North Carolina's notorious HB2 legislation which has engendered a federal lawsuit and a multi-business boycott of the state, to the more controversial question of locker rooms. Bathrooms all have stalls, and men's rooms have codes of conduct for the urinals that preclude any serious problems arising. Trans use of the appropriate bathroom, therefore, should never have been problematic politically. Once marriage equality passed, however, and the reactionary Christianist political community needed a new target, they naturally gravitated to the bathroom, the locus of all American civil rights movement backlashes.

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