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You Can Pee With Me, Bro
A new trend is flipping the bathroom debate on its head. It’s called #YouCanPeeWithMeBro.
This trend is for men to tell trans-identified men that they’ll be safe in the men’s room where they belong. Meaning they don’t have to pretend they need to invade the women’s room “for safety.”
This is the opposite of Protect the Dolls, a term men use to justify letting males who dress like women into women’s spaces. (Thanks, Pedro Pascal, for explaining to women who belongs in our bathrooms.)
A better approach is this: tell feminine men that they are safe where they belong: in the men’s room. Because they are. Men don’t get assaulted in men’s rooms for wearing eyeliner. They pretend that happens, but it doesn’t.
In fact, there are thousands of recorded cases of men committing assaults in women’s restrooms, yet no documented cases of trans-identified males being attacked in men’s rooms. The danger is clear for women but society is choosing not to protect them.
Most men online say that they don’t feel comfortable posting YouCanPeeWithMeBro. That’s not really the point. The point is to show feminine men that we don’t buy the “not safe” line about men’s rooms, so stop peddling it to get access where you don’t belong.
On Monday, a musician in Los Angeles was trending after she was kicked out of a Gold’s Gym for complaining about a man in the women’s locker room. The man confronted her and then walked back into the women’s room, which California law allows him to do. Her reaction is worth watching.
That man probably wouldn’t have used the men’s room even if he did see a hashtag like this because he thinks that wearing earrings qualifies him as a woman.
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