Student Involvement | LGBTQA | Navigating Campus Culture | Trans Guide | Gender-Neutral Facilities. Gender Neutral Bathrooms are for Everyone! “The choice between being hassled and holding their water affects thousands of people.”* This quote, taken from a New York Times article, describes the decision that trans-gender citizens must make every day. If one’s identity falls in between male and female, which restroom does one use? This debate has been ongoing and has led to the emergence of a gender-neutral restroom option. College campuses, shopping malls, and highway rest stops across the country have begun to adopt the new style of “family” facilities. After reviewing this topic in class, I was curious, I had never thought of a gender-neutral bathroom as plausible. The American version of the gender-neutral restroom, I found, is normally a one-stalled lockable room.
Gender-neutral bathrooms are a great step towards accepting the transgender community completely. As all change-related topics go, there is always opposition. With the average American gender-neutral bathroom, however, none of those arguments stand a chance. Outbreak: Man-made super-flu formula to be published? Global Food Disparity: A Photo Diary. In an increasingly globalized world, it’s still sometimes shocking to see just how disparate our lives are compared with other human beings around the world. A book of photographs by Peter Menzel called "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats" ("©Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com. Ten Speed Press, published in 2005) makes a relevant point with great irony: at a time when hundreds of millions of people don't have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.
In observing what six billion eat for dinner the authors note, "Today, more people are overweight than underweight. " It is these cultural differences, emphasized and reinforced by the author, which exemplifies the lifestyles and dietary habits of people around the world. In the United States, processed foods are par for course.
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