What's wrong with the gender neutral bathroom?
My frustrations with gendered restrooms started long before my transition. To be more precise, they started with parenthood. As a male presenting parent, who was determined to be involved with my children, I quickly became aware of an of an odd form of sexism: changing tables. For some odd reason, most men’s rooms are not equipped with facilities for changing babies’ diapers. Apparently, women are the only ones that need those. This left me as an engaged “father” with a few limited choices. Either make my wife change all the diapers when we were in public or kneel down on dirty bathroom floors and hope my child did not wiggle off the changing pad I had brought. This led to a parenting experience that me and wife laugh about …now in retrospect. My 10-month-old child had a massive blow out in a fast-food restaurant. We are talking kid goo everywhere all over my kid and all over the wooden high chair and down to the tile floors. So, we had to divide and concur. My wife cleane...