Restrooms at USC

After watching the film, The Aggressives, with one of the aggressives being forced to leave a women's restroom because the woman in the restroom thought her to be a man, I was happy to see that USC offers an "Other" restroom. I saw the restroom in the basement of Bridge Hall, as there were three restrooms available down there. One was labelled for women with a circle, and another was labelled with a triangle for men. However, there was another with that was labelled with both a circle and triangle intertwined with one another. I assumed that this symbol was meant for "other". As after her experience in the women's restroom, the aggressive never entered the women's restroom ever again, I was glad to see progress in society with having other restrooms available, which would make people such as the aggressives more comfortable using the restroom. This would not only make "aggressive's" lives better but also many other people dealing with "restroom problems". Such people would, for example, be people dealing with transmutations, hermaphrodites, transgenders, and many others.

Although this step of creating a restroom available to anyone seems like a small step, it is actually a giant step to take and demonstrates the progress society has made in accepting all types of people. Even though the restroom was a one-stalled restroom and people would not have encountered other people in there anyways, it would still make people feel comfortable than being succumbed to having to choose their gender as either male or female. In the future, I hope that USC takes an ever bigger step with creating such restrooms in not only the halls but also residential buildings, such as dorm rooms.