James Finn
1 min readMay 5, 2024

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How does it overlook feelings of straight (I presume you mean cis) women? Women's rooms don't have urinals (obviously), so no penises are on display. Taking offense at clothed penises inside a restroom but not 5 feet out the door where presumably many more clothed penises are present? How does that even work?

Trans women use women's rooms because they would not be welcome in men's rooms. In fact, they could be putting themselves in danger of violence.

And women who don't have penises (like the writer of this story) are being caught up in irrational hysteria. I wrote a story last year about a young woman in Las Vegas who was followed into a restroom, harassed, and physically threatened by a woman screaming that she was a trans boy.

She is not. She is a young, cisgender, straight woman engaged to be married to a young man.

And there she sat, cowering in a stall, hiding from a woman who could not see her genitals in any case. (She has cropped hair and was wearing a hoodie -- not uncommon for young women of her generation.)

Maybe we should all just stop playing guessing games about who has penises under their clothing and who does not.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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