Rowling, who recently reminded us that the phobia part of transphobia is very real. The latest instigator of the “Save our restrooms!” wars is, of course, J.K.
Black people peeing with white people, men with women, straight people with gays people, trans with cis - oh, the horror, the horror. Those opposed to civil rights, LGBTQ rights and the Equal Rights Amendment all have historically boiled their bigotry down to some wild-eyed fear about what equality in any form will mean to the state of our public restrooms. Poke a prejudice, almost any prejudice, and pretty quickly the conversation goes straight down the toilet.
Can someone please tell me, finally and for the record, why we are so obsessed with public bathrooms?
