Well, women's restrooms *tend* to be a lot cleaner. And there aren't as many toilets because of the urinals. For example, 2 toilets, 2 or three urinals. I've seen as many as 4 urinals for two stalls.
Silly factoid. A lot of current urinal designs are descended from one intended for *women*!!! The idea was that they'd pull up their skirts and stand straddling the part that sticks out from the wall (remember, women's underwear was a lot different 100 years ago)
Oh yeah, at places like baseball stadiums, you are apt to encounter a long trough for a multi-person urinal...
They may be complaining about the tendency in some places (mostly schools) to remove the doors from the stalls in the boys bathrooms.
And there's a Carl's Jr (burger chain) downtown that I will never ever use again. They removed the partitions around the toilet. I suspect it was because of people doing things like shooting up in there, but regardless..
Even in boy mode I'm not going to sit on a toilet that's in full view of the door to the bathroom.
I was sick when I picked my name. Stuck in bed with nothing to do and a few friends came over while I was going through a baby name book. One of them said I "look" like a Nick, I happen to like that name so Nick it is. Daniel Nicholas really, but I prefer Danny or Nick/Nicky.
I consider myself a genderqueer dude, trans is too much of a distinction from "normal" guys for my tastes and I'm not 100% one way or the other so genderqueer fits. I do tend to say 'transguy' when explaining myself to new people though, it's just easy for them to understand.
As for the bathrooms...I don't know. Just barely started passing well enough in the last couple of weeks and I'm too much of a wuss to find out.
1: That's a nice name. The "kh" in the middle is what I like, I think.
2: Ponygirl is an interesting one I'd never heard before. As for people not liking "tranny", I shy around it about the same way I shy around "fag", I guess. It's why I use boything more often. (Also, people don't figure out what I'm talking about as quickly.)
3: Boys, indeed, are boys. Nice story, by the way.
2) *grins* Ponygirl also just clicked. I have pretty much the same shy away reaction to both terms. Frankly, all I want is for people to stop calling me gay. I'm wearing women's clothing. It's not a statement of sexuality. It's a statement of gender identity.
3) Thank you again. I don't often pull out the full story, but it seemed appropriate here.
And you are quite welcome. New perspectives and new voices are never a bad thing, IMO.
My name is Dhane. I suggest you stick with a name people can pronounce and/or spell. People get my name wrong 90% of the time when I first meet them, and continue to spell it wrong for quite a while. (It's pronounced Dane, by the way.)
For some reason I don't really feel like a man, so I'm just a guy.
And the Men's room smells much worse. I still squat to pee (hovering works the quads anyway), and have not gotten noticed in over 4 years. I'd just tell them my piercing gets in the way to shut them up about it if anyone ever said something. Just look down, don't talk to anyone, and you'll fit right in.
My first name, Kara, I always liked. The irony was that I had a crush on a girl by that name in college and remember thinking how 'Kara Harkins' would sound at one point. This was not exactly what I had in mind (at least conciously) by that though!
My middle name, Michelle, is because I was named after a good friend of the family who has since died. I wanted to continue to respect him as best I could.
My last name I just left alone to avoid any potential legal problems. I also kept the same initials ... so during my transition I was able to sign things 'K.M. Harkins' without either invalidating the document (like a check) or not being true to myself.
As to what I call myself: trans-woman, woman, transsexual, transgendered. It all depends who I am talking to and what the current situation is.
Bathrooms- I would agree with other posters that men's are scummier (especially the floors) but women's tend to have lines in high-traffic areas (malls, theatres, etc.).
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Silly factoid. A lot of current urinal designs are descended from one intended for *women*!!! The idea was that they'd pull up their skirts and stand straddling the part that sticks out from the wall (remember, women's underwear was a lot different 100 years ago)
Oh yeah, at places like baseball stadiums, you are apt to encounter a long trough for a multi-person urinal...
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As for the urinals for women, that's definitely something I never would have guessed. XD
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And there's a Carl's Jr (burger chain) downtown that I will never ever use again. They removed the partitions around the toilet. I suspect it was because of people doing things like shooting up in there, but regardless..
Even in boy mode I'm not going to sit on a toilet that's in full view of the door to the bathroom.
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I consider myself a genderqueer dude, trans is too much of a distinction from "normal" guys for my tastes and I'm not 100% one way or the other so genderqueer fits. I do tend to say 'transguy' when explaining myself to new people though, it's just easy for them to understand.
As for the bathrooms...I don't know. Just barely started passing well enough in the last couple of weeks and I'm too much of a wuss to find out.
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2: Ponygirl is an interesting one I'd never heard before. As for people not liking "tranny", I shy around it about the same way I shy around "fag", I guess. It's why I use boything more often. (Also, people don't figure out what I'm talking about as quickly.)
3: Boys, indeed, are boys. Nice story, by the way.
Thanks for the welcome. :)
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2) *grins* Ponygirl also just clicked. I have pretty much the same shy away reaction to both terms. Frankly, all I want is for people to stop calling me gay. I'm wearing women's clothing. It's not a statement of sexuality. It's a statement of gender identity.
3) Thank you again. I don't often pull out the full story, but it seemed appropriate here.
And you are quite welcome. New perspectives and new voices are never a bad thing, IMO.
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For some reason I don't really feel like a man, so I'm just a guy.
And the Men's room smells much worse. I still squat to pee (hovering works the quads anyway), and have not gotten noticed in over 4 years. I'd just tell them my piercing gets in the way to shut them up about it if anyone ever said something. Just look down, don't talk to anyone, and you'll fit right in.
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on a girl by that name in college and remember thinking how 'Kara
Harkins' would sound at one point. This was not exactly what I had in
mind (at least conciously) by that though!
My middle name, Michelle, is because I was named after a good friend of
the family who has since died. I wanted to continue to respect him as
best I could.
My last name I just left alone to avoid any potential legal problems. I
also kept the same initials ... so during my transition I was able to
sign things 'K.M. Harkins' without either invalidating the document
(like a check) or not being true to myself.
As to what I call myself: trans-woman, woman, transsexual, transgendered.
It all depends who I am talking to and what the current situation is.
Bathrooms- I would agree with other posters that men's are scummier
(especially the floors) but women's tend to have lines in high-traffic
areas (malls, theatres, etc.).
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