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Blue is for boys and Pink is for girls! (reddthat.com)

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[–] VaultBoyNewVegas 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you're 10 years old or less. No one's probably going to give a shit what colour door you go through. I've seen Dad's with their daughters in the men's toilets and I've seen mothers bring their sons into the women's toilets.

[–] over_clox 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was almost suspended from school at age 7 because I walked into the wrong restroom by accident. Apparently nobody had bothered explaining to me anything about sex or gender yet, nor why there were two different restrooms when there's only one restroom at home.

Honestly at age 7, I thought the pink restroom was just the one that people went to if they needed to put on makeup. I only went in there to help my teacher as she had asked me to go fill a water bowl to wash the chalkboard.

Childhood can be extremely awkward when you're basically legally blind and nobody bothers to explain that basically half the people out there have different body parts.

Edit: This plus one additional incident at age 8 were so traumatizing to me that I never again used a public restroom until age 26, years after graduation.