(by Tim) Joe Sobran is fond of pointing out there are some things so foolish that only higher education could break down the natural inoculation simple folk have against them. Speaking of which...
So far thirty institutions of higher education have implemented a policy of providing "gender-neutral housing, in which the norm for roommates is not presumed to be someone of the same sex." And 141 colleges and universities have built "gender-neutral bathrooms" that "students can use without fear of being judged as being in the wrong bathroom based on the way others view the students’ identity."
Brittney Hoffman, youth coordinator for the Gender Public Advocacy Commission, sympathetically stated the dilema these bathrooms address...
A lot of gender non-conforming youth experience harassment in choosing a restroom, and really suffer this sobering anxiety in making a decision about a bathroom that for the vast majority of the population is really simple... They have to ask, "Which bathroom is going to be safest for me right now?”
If I may put this delicately, will these bathrooms make any concessions to that biological reality formerly known as "sexuality?" You know, body parts; will men be able to use the facilities in a manly way, or must we sit?
One of the more painful memories of my life was visiting my brothers, David and Nathan, at Macalester College and having to use their coed dorm bathroom. Icky yuck-yuck. Gross. Cooties were caught.
