The New York Daily News is reporting that "transgendered" men may now use the Women's Restrooms legally. Article here.

The line for the girls' room just got longer.
Men who live as women can now legally use women's rest rooms in New York's transit system under an unprecedented deal revealed yesterday.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority agreed to allow riders to use MTA rest rooms "consistent with their gender expression," the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund announced yesterday.


We are talking about men, guys with penises, free to use the Women's Room because they dress like women and act like women.

We live in strange times. (more below)

On the one hand, our culture celebrates bodily existence and seems content to accept physical determinism. Fashion, film, and art are seen as having a right to show as much of the human body and its possibilities as the "artist" wants. Opponents are accused of being ashamed of the body. Our culture wants free condoms distributed in schools because 'the kids are going to do it anyway'--an endorsement of the idea of biological determinism; the body will do what its drives determine.

On the other hand, our culture rejects the idea that biology is destiny. Although there have been recent challenges to this politically correct idea, the differences between men and women are held to result from cultural norms, not bodily differences. Sexuality also has been divorced from bodily existence. Same-sex sex makes no biological sense; it is an evolutionary liability. And, as in today's article, biological plumbing does not determine choice of restroom plumbing.

Is there a more basic idea that reconciles our culture's contradictory attitudes toward the human body and its biology? Yes there is. The currently accepted definition of freedom as the right of the unrestrained absolute individual to act and to be in accordance with his/her/whatever's own wishes. This absolutely sovereign individual is understood to be pure will, without reference to bodily existence.

We've seen this idea before in Eden, when it was still Eden.