16 Images That Show #WeJustNeedToPee

For more than a year, social media has been flush with images that, on the surface, seem contradictory to the cause of transgender acceptance: trans men snapping selfies in ladies rest rooms, trans women doing the same in mens rooms. They did so to make a point: that it’s wrong to prevent transgender individuals from using the lavatories that match their gender identity.

And as opponents and transphobes have stepped up their efforts to create laws that would make it illegal for trans people to pee in peace, gender nonconforming and nonbinary individuals and allies have raised an alarm that these images do potential harm by reinforcing stereotypes of men as predators and women as sex objects.

Here’s just a sample of the impactful, and often controversial, images from across the internet:

@JayShef
It's now the law for me to share a restroom with your wife. #HB2 #trans #NorthCarolina #shameonNC

@kellj1983

"A simple question to enemies of trans people: Is this what you want? Because it's what you're demanding.
#thisiswhattranslookslike#wejustneedtopee #endtransphobia"

@MollyWillms

"Lately state lawmakers in the U.S. seem 2 have forgotten this simple concept, which protects us all #wejustneedtope"

@mikehughes69

"#wejustneedtopee #TransLivesMatter #letmypeoplepee"

@mikehughes69

 

@shaylhughes

"#bathroombillproblems #wejustneedtopee"

@hannsimp

"World, heed the writing on the wall. Let my people go! #Passover #WeJustNeedToPee #illgowithyou #Trans #LGBT"

@turnerschofield 

Share if you'd rather pee next to a #transwoman than a bigot! #religiousfreedom #religiousliberty #HB2 #MS #TN

@turnerschofield 

​Thanks, @realmontelwilliams for sparing a square of education to your followers on the #bathroom issue. #nc #ms #no…

@Tonebutch

Is seeing me in yr bathroom more comfortable than seeing a Transwoman?#WeJustWantToPee #transGuy

@Tonebutch

Because ME in the women's room would cause Less anxiety? #transguy #occupotty #wejustneedtopee #TransLivesMatter

https://www.facebook.com/klauren3 

Houston, do you REALLY want me in the same restroom as your husband or boyfriend?

@AaronPhoenix13

#wejustneedtopee #IllGoWithYou #ID2P #NCHB2 #Northcarolina #lgbt #transgender #trans #ftm

https://www.facebook.com/gabriel.todd.5

 

@allysonrobinson

Friends, this is me. In a women's restroom. In Charlotte. North Carolina. BREAKING THE LAW BY MY MERE PRESENCE.
 
And I will KEEP breaking this unjust law. Not only does my conscience demand it—my safety requires it. And I will speak out boldly and I will give sacrificially until this law and all others like it are consigned to the dung heap of history, where they belong...
 
...regardless of the consequences. If you want to stop me, Governor McCrory, you're just going to have to arrest me.
 
Bring it on.

@alexandrabillings

According to North Carolina law, this is the locker room I belong in.

They say I am dangerous. They say I am a threat. They say I am in disguise and will harm women and children. They wrote bigotry and discrimination into their state bylaws and attempted to filter it through religious liberty. I am one of many. I stand strong and firm within the center of a Divine sense of history and tribe. And I will not be moved. But in here ...I am unarmed and unprotected.

So I ask you ...who's the one in danger?

#whostheoneindanger #betransparent #transisbeautiful