Quote Originally Posted by bimini1 View Post
Do y'all feel that even though we are anatomically male, we even have the right to be in a women's changing station just because we are presenting as the opposite gender?
That just does not make sense to me.
We generally go by the customs of the society in which we live. And since gender flexibility has not been at the forefront in our culture, in fact it is still deeply closeted, society has been slow to acknowledge and embrace the idea that a small percentage of the total population experiences a need to present in the gender opposite than birth.

Although I'm all for education and I believe there is no better way to do this than to change laws giving the genetic males who need to express femininity access to spaces that have up until now been strictly allocated for women, I think it is wrong to blame the women who've had no exposure to the CDing and who have no way to frame it other than what they've read or seen in the popular media (which is not stellar in many cases), if they question a feminine looking man who is in the ladies changing room. If they saw CDers in there all the time it would be a different story, but they simply don't.

I think an excellent solution is for major department stores to follow the lead of the trendier boutiques. They have banks of changing cubicles at the back of the store for both men and women. This also makes it handy for couples who are shopping together, or a parent who is accompanying a different sex teenager.