More toilet hysteria.

A manufactured panic about trans people using the toilets they feel safest in, making them (and any other gender non-conforming individual) unsafe regardless of which choice they make, also makes it unsafe for parents to take their young or disabled children to the toilet if the child happens to be a different sex from the parent.

We need to bury these establishments in costly litigation that force these laws to be repealed. Ridiculous people.

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    I’m not sure what a movie theater designed for the neurodivergent would be, but I’d be interested in finding out.

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      A local AMC near me used to have specific screenings for people with autism where the lights were turned up a bit so it wasn’t completely dark, the sound wasn’t turned up as loud, you were allowed to make noise and weren’t asked to leave over stereotypy/tics, allowed to bring in outside food, you could leave and come back, etc

      I think they called them “sensory friendly screenings” or something like that? I worked in an autism group home at the time and we would take our clientele to them, the theater was super accommodating. I don’t think all of them do it though

      This was like 2011 though and I feel like things have gotten worse in the us since then tho so maybe it’s much less common now

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      They already have a solution, family bathrooms. And staff who don’t yell at you for using them.

      But really this is disgusting behavior on the staffs part. Shame on those who escalated the situation unnecessarily.

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        No, I meant a theater in general. The person I responded to said a movie theater for autistic people. I’m sure there are plenty of accommodations that could be made to a standard movie theater to make it a more pleasant experience for the neurodivergent.

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          Oh sorry my bad, here’s some insight from my autistic boyfriend. He said basically keep everything the same but cap viewing areas at like 10 people and have more ADA compliant areas and staff.

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            1 year ago

            Someone else made some other good suggestions and said some theaters have special showings for neurodivergent people, which I’m glad to hear. Thanks!