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I am slightly confused -- who's landlord was illegally discriminating against you? The landlord for the office your company rented? How were they singling you out and discriminating against you?

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Not familiar with the story, but from the text it follows that it was the company's landlord that was discriminating. Typically, in cases like this, conflict revolves around bathroom use and exclusion due to gender assignment/reassignment.

Bingo. There was only one bathroom on our floor, and we shared the floor with another company, some busybody at the other company complained, so the building manager banned me from using the women's restroom.

That's illegal in Dallas.

So you are biologically a male, you identify as a female, and you wanted to use the female bathroom?

I think that if, as a society, we decide that gender access to restrooms is not based on physical gender but instead based on how you self-identify -- then as society we should completely eliminate the separation of bathrooms for males and females.

Agree or disagree?

Agree. In the U.S. OSHA has already mandated this. Employees do not have to prove their gender.

Yes. Though in practice, I still feel more comfortable with gender segregated bathrooms, and I (female) would rather just share with female-identified persons than with males.

Interestingly, a local university (Uvic) has gender non-specific public washrooms. The kind with 4-5 stalls and sinks. Everyone welcome.

I only lasted six months in Austin, let alone Texas.

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