I was reading a biog of Richard Feynman - he liked taking the staff out to a famous steak restaurant, and if anyone had the temerity to try and order a steak in any other state than "rare", he'd politely suggest they try the fish.

It certainly joins the ranks of great you-had-one-job fuckups, but the universe has an innate disposition to screw with our plans. As with most of these things, it's probably down to one essentially tiny error and, more fundamentally, a lack of checks, or the check will check the wrong thing. If you want to define the…

No, I got it. Ah, the good old days, when Phelps looked like as bad as it got…

Sorry, I remain deeply uncomfortable with this for too many reasons to list.

So, objectively not as bad as Hitler! (although, in all honesty, one ought to aim a little higher than that as an epitath).

I do!

I genuinely sympathise with your problem, but as you note, unisex is the universal panacea here. Sure, it takes some work, but it's not excessive. Two bathrooms are all that's needed (at least until the iron-men turn up and get into their usual hissy-fit).

Republicans are not, on the whole, advocating for unisex bathrooms as the default. I'd certainly agree that most concerns that might be raised by cis-women are unfounded, but is it really so unreasonable, in an age when we're trying to work towards great accommodation for all, to give a little respect to those women…

I would agree if trans-women were advocating unisex bathrooms, but afaik not all do and that's not what we're talking about.

Largely agree, but then openness isn't a bad thing either.

No, they're asking for bathrooms to remain segregated, but that they get to use the one for their reassigned gender rather than their birth-gender.

How much prominence does the email get? I mean, if you have to pause and screen-grab to see it, then I'm just impressed it didn't say lorem ipsum.

You're not disagreeing with the point I'm making.

Yeah, on average you're probably right, but Fred Phelps really fucked the median.

Your second paragraph seems a bit cognitively dissonant.

Well, apart from anything else, the analogy is back to front. Trans-women aren't asking for desegregated bathrooms; they're asking for bathrooms to remain segregated but for them to be reassigned. It would be more like a black person during Jim Crow not wanting bathrooms desegregated, but to be personally considered…

Not really, no. By that logic, you should be happy with trans-race - are you?

Fuck Trump, but I have to say I'm not a supporter of the progressive position either.

How could it have been better and what do you think doesn't work?

Fuck, yes. 'Judas' not 'Traitor'. Doh!