Summary Of Transgender Law Center Report
‘Peeing In Peace: A Resource Guide For Transgender Activists And Allies’

A San Francisco-based transgender law center is promoting a “bathroom revolution” to overthrow the idea of “gender-segregated” restrooms.

July 2007 – The Transgender Law Center (TLC), in association with People In Search Of Safe Restrooms (PISSR), has published a document promoting “gender neutral restrooms” throughout American culture.

The TLC document, “Peeing In Peace: A Resource Guide For Transgender Activists And Allies,” was funded, in part, by atheist liberal George Soros’ Open Society Institute and the Kicking Assets Fund of the Tides Foundation. (Teresa Kerry, the wife of Senator John Kerry has provided more than $4 million to the Tides Foundation through the Howard Heinz Foundation.)

In the introduction to Chapter One of “Peeing In Peace,” the author asserts that the report, “…provides basic tools you can use to affect how someone sees the issue of bathroom access and safety by questioning who should be able to access which bathroom and why we divide most public bathrooms into Men’s and Women’s facilities in the first place.”

According to the Transgender Law Center, a “transgender” man or woman “refers to people whose gender identity or expression is different than the gender they were assigned at birth or different than the stereotypes that go with that gender. This includes people who identify as MTF (male-to-female), FTM (female-to-male), butch, genderqueer, tranny, transsexual, sissy boy, etc.”

This definition also includes males or females who “identify” as the opposite sex, but do not plan on undergoing sex change operations. In essence, a person can simply claim he’s the opposite sex and, according to the TLC, then be entitled to use opposite sex restrooms.

The TLC also defines the word “transition” to mean: “the steps that some transgender people take to express their gender identity. ‘Transition’ can be as simple as adopting a new name and wearing clothes that are more stereotypically male or female (depending on the way someone is transitioning). It simply means that period after which someone has claimed their gender identity as their gender.”

In the section, “Historical Bathroom Activism,” the TLC claims that “Bathrooms have long been a place where people with authority, power, or wealth have denied access to other people. Over 150 years ago, only wealthy people could afford bathrooms in their homes and poor people were forced to use insufficient, non-hygenic public toilets.”

TLC claims that segregating men and women in different bathrooms is akin to racial segregation before the Civil Rights Movement.

Safe Bathrooms For Whom?”

The premise of the TLC report is that: “Safe bathroom access is not a luxury or a special right. Without safe access to public bathrooms, transgender people are denied full participation in public life. For example, transgender youth may be unable to complete school due to a lack of safe bathroom access. Due to bathroom discrimination in the workplace, transgender people may quit or be fired from their jobs.”

In addition, the TLC claims that transgender people often avoid public restrooms and “develop health problems as a result.”

TLC claims that women’s and children’s safety are at stake because men’s and women’s restrooms are segregated by sex. According to TLC logic, putting a “women’s restroom” sign on a door doesn’t prevent men from entering those restrooms to harm women. In fact, having a women’s symbol on a restroom actually tells a predator where to look for women.

TLC also claims that children will be safer when gender neutral restrooms are created in businesses and public places. Why? Because parents will be free to take their children into any restroom to guard their safety.

Preventing Harassment?

The “Peeing In Peace” document provides transgendered individuals with several ways of dealing with the challenges they face in using opposite sex restrooms. Those who confront a cross-dresser or transsexual who is using an opposite bathroom are described as “confused, angry, or afraid” of the transgender. Among the strategies offered are:

  • The Buddy System – Transgenders are encouraged to take a fellow cross-dresser or drag queen with them into the rest room

  • Gender Proof – offer proof of gender if able to do so

  • Confrontational – confront the person and state that you have a right to be there.

Changing Bathrooms For Good

Chapter 3 of “Peeing In Peace” describes various kinds of restrooms to be promoted by transgender activist campaigns. Among those not recommended are: transgender-only restrooms; or converting men’s restrooms into gender neutral restrooms.

TLC does recommend the following:

1. Gender Identity-based Restrooms.
In these, a person can use whatever restroom he wants based upon his genderidentity. Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles already have such policies in place!

2. Single-Stall Gender-Neutral Restrooms.

3. Multi-Stall Gender-Neutral Restrooms.

4. Gender-Neutral Bathrooms On Alternating Floors [of an office building].

“Peeing In Peace” suggests that an educational campaign should be launched to teach non-transgender people to affirm and accept transgenders in restrooms.

The author writes: “Of course, gender-neutral bathrooms do not negate the transphobia that is rampant in this society. A transphobic person who is intent on harassing or assaulting a transgender person might do so in any environment, including a gender-neutral bathroom.”

Changing Individual Bathrooms

The TLC urges individuals to target individual bathrooms in their communities – such as coffee shops or restaurants – as well as opponents of gender neutral-facilities.

If the opponent of gender neutral bathrooms proves to be resistant to the idea, the TLC urges that the transgender file discrimination complaints against the business.

A “Safe Bathroom Grassroots Organization” is to be organized in communities to force businesses to create gender neutral restrooms. Resistance is to be met by direct action such as picketing, letter-writing campaigns, rallies and sit-ins.

The Transgender Law Center recommends a number of resources for cross-dressers, drag queens, and transsexuals to use in organizing “safe bathroom” campaigns nationwide.

Among those are People In Search Of Safe Restrooms, (PISSR); The Ruckus Society; CopWatch.com; Piss and Vinegar Zine published by the Anti-Capitalist Tranny Brigade; Sylvia Rivera Law Project; the Gay Straight Alliance Network; and others.

Conclusion

Transgender madness and the idea of “gender identity disorder” as being normal will be embedded in federal law if three key bills are passed by Congress:

Each of these bills is part of the transgender/homosexual agenda to create federally-protected class status for the behaviors of sodomy, cross-dressing and gender-confused individuals.

Not only will gender confused individuals be protected by the federal government, but so will the 30 different “sexual orientations” listed by the American Psychiatric Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-R).

TVC’s report on these 30 different sexual orientations is available online.

TVC’s report on Gender Identity Disorders (GID) is also available online. It describes the transgender radical agenda to destroy the concept of male and female and to gain federal protection for every kind of bizarre sexual behavior.

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