Ally, in fairness to your mentor, I can see myself saying the same thing but meaning something different: namely a separate category for transgenders. That disability symbol would be intended to denote a specific category set aside for a specific constituency, not intending to imply that transgenders or transitioning genders are somehow …
Ally, in fairness to your mentor, I can see myself saying the same thing but meaning something different: namely a separate category for transgenders. That disability symbol would be intended to denote a specific category set aside for a specific constituency, not intending to imply that transgenders or transitioning genders are somehow disabled.
An increasing number of places with individual toilets or plentiful stalls are going non-gender. Locker rooms are a different story. Legitimate questions of fairness in athletic competition do exist and will remain difficult to resolve. The issue will work itself out over a generation or two as the culture catches up; likely to be less than perfect.
P.S., Ally, I sympathize with your feelings. In your position, I would likely have taken the comment as a disparagement for trans-genders and reacted with anger, too.
Ally, in fairness to your mentor, I can see myself saying the same thing but meaning something different: namely a separate category for transgenders. That disability symbol would be intended to denote a specific category set aside for a specific constituency, not intending to imply that transgenders or transitioning genders are somehow disabled.
An increasing number of places with individual toilets or plentiful stalls are going non-gender. Locker rooms are a different story. Legitimate questions of fairness in athletic competition do exist and will remain difficult to resolve. The issue will work itself out over a generation or two as the culture catches up; likely to be less than perfect.
P.S., Ally, I sympathize with your feelings. In your position, I would likely have taken the comment as a disparagement for trans-genders and reacted with anger, too.