On Tuesday, the New York Times ran an essay by transgender woman Meredith Rousseau,

a person who was born a man about how terrible it feels to have to use a bathroom

corresponding to his birth gender. Rousseau writes about how he felt he should be able to use

the female restroom at work despite his penis. Here's his tale of woe, quote,

things went well at first, with coworkers taking it in stride and customers reading my voice is female, but then one of my bosses demanded to speak with me. She wanted to talk about bathrooms. Have you had the surgery? She asked. Have you ever talked about your genitals, with a superior at work? It's not exactly a party. I told her no. Well, then, you'll have to use the men's until you do. We can't risk a lawsuit.

I headed to the men's room where I waited for a solitary stall to open up. I considered going all

punk rock, hiking up my skirted a urinal and flipping off any man who looked at me funny,

but there is probably no meeker creature on earth than a newly transitioned woman.

The man who emerged from the stall looked at me as if I were a jug of spoiled milk.

Some insisted that I was in the wrong place until they realized what I was and got really angry.

It got so bad that I stopped going to the bathroom at work altogether and developed urinary tract infections.

So then I stopped drinking water before and during work.

Okay.

First off, half of high school students avoid going to the bathroom because they don't like the risks they run in going to the bathroom at high schools.

I did this in middle school, okay?

And that's not because I was transgender.

It's because all the weirdos hung out in the bathroom.

Second, Meredith doesn't specify how such anger by other people manifested. What did these evil,

horrible men do to him aside from looking at him kind of weird? Was he assaulted? If so, why

didn't he go to the police? Was he harassed? If so, why didn't he go to management? And if the

company was so terribly discriminatory, why did it continue to employ him despite his transgenderism?

But most importantly, Meredith feels he should have been able to saunter on over to the ladies'

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