{"id":3543,"date":"2016-06-28T07:11:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2016-06-28T07:11:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T14:11:24","slug":"when-you-have-to-go-in-a-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2016\/when-you-have-to-go-in-a-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Have to Go in a National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/transgender-bathrooms-tweet-by-sec-int-062716.jpg\" alt=\"Secretary of the Interior cheers gender-free bathrooms in national barks\" width=\"602\" height=\"181\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/transgender-bathrooms-tweet-by-sec-int-062716.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/transgender-bathrooms-tweet-by-sec-int-062716-150x45.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/transgender-bathrooms-tweet-by-sec-int-062716-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:-1.2em; font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', 'sans serif'\"><em>June 27 tweet by Secretary of the Interior<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So yesterday (apparently) the President decreed that national parks no longer honor the single-gender bathroom concept. (Gender-specific restrooms &#8212; what an antiquated concept in this great society. \ud83d\ude2f )<\/p>\n<p>Apparently whatever the sign may say is no guarantee what you will find inside. So beware of using multiple-capacity restrooms. The spectators therein may be more &#8220;sexually varied&#8221; than you bargained for. <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Visitors to national parks are free to use whichever public restroom they believe matches their gender identity, the Department of Interior says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As it relates to recently passed state laws relating to the transgender community, visitors to public lands and water sites are welcome to use restrooms that best align with their gender identity,&#8221; an Interior Department spokesperson told The Daily Signal in an email.<\/p>\n<p>But a national policy expert says visitors to national parks should be concerned that others can enter the restroom of their choice regardless of their biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>National Park Service spokesman Jeremy K. Barnum said this is not a new policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have always been able to choose the public restroom within the national park system that aligns with their gender identity,&#8221; Barnum told The Daily Signal in an email. &#8220;The National Park Service has never had a rule that determined nor designated what restroom someone should use according to their gender identity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"alignrightsmall\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2016\/06\/27\/restrooms-at-national-parks-align-with-gender-identity\/\">Daily Signal: National Parks Allow Restroom Choice by Gender Identity<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is particularly troubling when it comes to women&#8217;s restrooms. It seems it will become common for &#8220;confused&#8221; men to go where no man dared go before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Personal-Public-Porta-Potty\/dp\/B006IVN03O?tag=markroth-ac-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/public-perch-pot-127x150.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon: trailer hitch porta potty\" width=\"127\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/public-perch-pot-127x150.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/public-perch-pot-400x474.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/public-perch-pot.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I tow a portapot behind my car and enter a national park, would I be allowed to charge a modest usage fee for those wishing to use a &#8220;less inclusive&#8221; bathroom? (I have something in mind far more private and secure than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Personal-Public-Porta-Potty\/dp\/B006IVN03O?tag=markroth-ac-20\" class=\"amazon\">what somebody is peddling on Amazon!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t have time for this kind of writing. But this news piece just got me going and I felt the urge to post a PSA for parents and women in particular.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be sure to pick a single-occupancy restroom or outhouse.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[404,416,407,424],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-noah","category-youve-been-warned","tag-family","tag-morality","tag-safety","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-V9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}