From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Dessier, and this is Heritage Explains.

I used to be into punk rock music.

You know the type.

Fast, loud, gritty, spiked hair, mosh pits, and crowd surfing.

Shoot, going to concerts was a massive part of my life.

Almost every weekend.

And sometimes during the week.

Now listen, I'm under zero illusions.

We were the weird kids.

And when a bunch of weird kids get together in the same room to listen to weird music, weird stuff typically happens. One night in 2001, I was at a

concert seeing a band called the Dropkick Murphys at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit.

It was awesome. Now an interesting thing about St. Andrew's Hall.

The bathroom stalls didn't have doors.

So after I was doing rings in the circle pit,

I went to the bathroom to splash some water on my face.

But when I entered, I saw a girl using the men's room.

It was weird. I'd never seen anything like that.

But then again, I was at a punk rock show.

Weird things happen all the time.

The next morning, I went back to my high school and to normal bathrooms.

But that was 2001.

Things have changed since then.

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