Thanks for posting the LA Mag link.
This was interesting about a client at another spa in 2020.
A rep for Century Day and Night Spa on Olympic Boulevard recalls a similar situation just before the pandemic shut them down in spring 2020 in which a trans woman (“with everything reflected female on her driver’s license”) caused an uproar among cis gender female clients by exposing male genitals in the female pools and lockers. “[She] wouldn’t really use the spas, [she] just sat at the corner of the pool with [her] feet in the water and [her] legs spread or took front-facing showers,” the rep recalls. “People began to feel uncomfortable. It became very disruptive.” When the spa finally confronted her, she was adamant that the spa should attempt to normalize young girls and women viewing male genitalia.
“Typically,” says the rep, “transgender people are very mindful of not only their own comfort levels but the comfort levels of people around them. This person was not respectful.”
It is looking like ‘they just want to pee’ (and don’t forget the illuminating twitter conversation between two trans influencers this year mocking women’s toilet habits) and ‘no trans person wants to be naked in front of other’ is not going to stand much longer.
Yes, I am sure many DO want to pee or just get changed. But denial that there is a potential for abuse is no longer going to work.
Nor is the excuse ‘there are no problems in other countries with self id’.