{"id":227117,"date":"2019-08-16T22:53:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T02:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=227117"},"modified":"2019-08-17T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T12:08:22","slug":"discomfort-over-sharing-restrooms-must-be-considered-solon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/16\/discomfort-over-sharing-restrooms-must-be-considered-solon\/","title":{"rendered":"Discomfort over sharing restrooms must be considered: solon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_202863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202863\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pexels-photo-1722196.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-202863\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pexels-photo-1722196.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pexels-photo-1722196.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pexels-photo-1722196-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pexels-photo-1722196-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pexels-photo-1722196-1024x682.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The transgender bathroom controversy cropped up after Gretchen Diez, a transwoman, was barred from using the women&#8217;s comfort room of a mall in Cubao, Quezon City and was even handcuffed and arrested by police personnel. (Pexels Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Friday the discomfort over the sharing of sex-separated public restrooms with transgender people must be considered in the discussion of having equal access to such social space.<\/p>\n<p>In a text message to reporters, Sotto argued that access to public bathrooms must be based on biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am all for respecting rights. But how about the sensitivities of women who are uncomfortable with transgenders using women&#8217;s restrooms; or straight men donning women&#8217;s clothes,&#8221; Sotto said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Restrooms are biology-based. Lesbians cannot stand in a male-only urinal.\u00a0<em>Konting<\/em>\u00a0(A bit of) reality check<em>\u00a0naman<\/em>(please),&#8221; Sotto added.<\/p>\n<p>The transgender bathroom controversy cropped up after Gretchen Diez, a transwoman, was barred from using the women&#8217;s comfort room of a mall in Cubao, Quezon City and was even handcuffed and arrested by police personnel.<\/p>\n<p>When asked for his position to put up a third restroom in commercial establishments for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community, Sotto said it may be possible but it would be difficult to make it ubiquitous.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;3rd CR (comfort room) for LGBT? Maybe, but difficult to do everywhere,&#8221; Sotto said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Friday the discomfort over the sharing of sex-separated public restrooms with transgender &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":202863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227118,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227117\/revisions\/227118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}