We'll soon be debating this in Canada....

In New York City, they are now debating whether buildings need gender-neutral bathrooms!

Gender-neutral bathrooms are necessary to preserve the legal right to gender expression, representatives of various LGBT groups said yesterday at a panel discussion on the implementation of the New York City Transgender Rights Law.

"It shouldn't be a question of whether we need them or not," CAS sophomore Haley Socha said. "There are people who don't know what it's like to be uncomfortable using a bathroom."

The forum, held in the Kimmel Center, featured panelists from a variety of backgrounds, including politicians and leaders of LGBT organizations and was sponsored by the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), a legislative work group seeking to secure the full inclusion of transgender and gender-variant people in discrimination and hate crime laws in New York.

Thursday's vote by the University Senate on the construction of gender-neutral bathrooms in new university buildings was also a focus of the discussion.

I'm really hapyy with just male-female bathrooms. But, in today's environment, I can see Canada going down this path.