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A Discriminating Taste in Toilets
A Discriminating Taste in Toilets
My friend Sharlyne wrote a very interesting article today on public toilets for LGBTs. In a GMA report, the Alyansa ng Media at Showbiz, Inc., led by Leo Martinez, proposes “gay toilets;” that “gay male” and “gay female” toilets may be built in government offices and commercial establishments.
I’m sure that Mr. Martinez and his group are genuinely concerned for the welfare and the security of gay people, and I wouldn’t begrudge any gay, lesbian, or transgendered person the right to say that a separate toilet for their gender is a genuine solution to the problem, if he or she believes so. Yet the struggle for LGBT rights isn’t about excluding and separating one’s self from society. It’s about inclusion and acceptance: if the whole struggle has to boil down to a matter of toilets, it’s the gay male or the lesbian or the bisexual or the transgendered to enter a comfort room of his or her own choice, without fear of repercussions or discrimination. It is to be included and accepted by society, without being judged by toilet habits.
