Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly and his guest Bernard McGuirk were
engaged in some pretty illuminating discussion on misgendering and proper pronoun use when McGuirk suddenly stumbled on an original thought.
McGuirk then bemoaned that “their goal is to have gender-neutral locker rooms, gender-neutral bathrooms” and that “they want to get rid of urinals.”
Now that is brilliant. And frankly, I find it a little sad that the women's movement has been mucking around for all these years on things like equal rights and equal pay and bra burning when we could have been destroying urinals! I mean, talk about
really leveling the playing field. You gotta hand it to trans folks for really hitting 'em where it hurts.
But maybe Fox really started a conversation because the next night The Daily Show aired a segment in which reporter Jordan Klepper went to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to interview Randall Christy, who is very concerned about transgender people using the bathroom. Zack Ford details the exchange:
CHRISTY: These laws that protect gender expression allow biological males to go wherever they want, biological females to go wherever they want, depending on how they’re expressing their gender that day. It is happening, you know.
KLEPPER: What’s happening?
CHRISTY: There are people that walk into restrooms and someone of the opposite sex is in that restroom.
KLEPPER: Doing what?
CHRISTY: Uh… evidently, using the restroom.
KLEPPER: And then what?
CHRISTY: I don’t know, but that’s a problem for some people.
Klepper was unfazed, and invited City Council member Joyce Zeller to respond. She countered, “I’m not quite sure what bathrooms have to do with this, but for some reason, conservative religious people are terribly hung up on bathrooms.”
Maybe that's because of the urinal conspiracy, Zeller. Ever think of that?