# Keep transgender people out of the wrong restroom!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-transgender-people-out-of-the-wrong-restroom/759995>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 15, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-transgender-people-out-of-the-wrong-restroom/759995 "2016-07-15T19:15:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
**Page:** 5

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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-transgender-people-out-of-the-wrong-restroom/759995/81 "2016-07-19T15:58:41Z")

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> [@lance\_strongarm](#):
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> Now, that said - as I’ve already explained, this has nothing to do with transgender issues, it’s about logic. It seems that it’s taking alot of posts for some people to even see that, let alone get my point about the logic.

Maybe you’re just wrong about the logic.

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**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-transgender-people-out-of-the-wrong-restroom/759995/82 "2016-07-19T16:13:15Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Maybe you’re just wrong about the logic.

That’s possible. However, most of my time, people haven’t understood my logic in the first place. Only a few have (such as you), and were even capable of disagreeing with it.

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**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-transgender-people-out-of-the-wrong-restroom/759995/83 "2016-07-19T16:14:20Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> Do me a favor (not that you owe me, mind you) and worry about this so that I don’t have to. Thanks.

Will do. So this means you won’t be posting about it any more?

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**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-transgender-people-out-of-the-wrong-restroom/759995/84 "2016-07-19T16:28:57Z")

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I would like that to be the case, but I can’t commit to it. You might say something that I’d want to ridicule.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-transgender-people-out-of-the-wrong-restroom/759995/85 "2016-07-19T16:29:56Z")

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> [@lance\_strongarm](#):
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> That’s possible. However, most of my time, people haven’t understood my **logic** in the first place.

“You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.” - Melania Trump

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**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-transgender-people-out-of-the-wrong-restroom/759995/86 "2016-07-19T16:30:36Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> I think this is an important moment. Don’t stop him now, I think he’s wrapping up his wind-up and is about to deliver a point. Should only require a few more dozen pages now.

My money is on February.

2037

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**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-transgender-people-out-of-the-wrong-restroom/759995/87 "2016-07-19T16:37:28Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> I would like that to be the case, but I can’t commit to it. You might say something that I’d want to ridicule.

That’s why I put this in The Pit - to demonstrate that ridicule is all you’ve got.

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**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-transgender-people-out-of-the-wrong-restroom/759995/88 "2016-07-19T18:35:27Z")

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> [@watchwolf49](#):
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> What if I’m non-binary gender, which [is lawful in Oregon now](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/12/oregon-judge-allows-person-to-change-gender-from-female-to-non-binary.html)?
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> What if I’m a quantum gender, defined by the Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?
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> What if my gender is relative to my velocity?
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> This is so confusing … WHICH BATHROOM DO I USE ???
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> Fuck that … I’m going behind that there tree over yonder …

NO! Not that tree! That one is reserved for bi-curious Ethiopian mountain goats. Please use the one to the right, no, YOUR right, of that one.

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