Ivan Coyote: Why we need gender-neutral bathrooms
איבן קויוטי: למה אנחנו צריכים שרותים ניטרליים למגדר
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that all of us need.
We need shelter and love.
אנחנו צריכים מחסה ואהבה.
into the gender binary,
להגדרה המגדרית הבינרית,
gender-neutral bathrooms
עם תא אחד שניטראליים למגדר
of mainstream media attention lately.
של המדיה המרכזית לאחרונה.
has been focused
anymore about where they're going to pee
בנוגע ללאן הם הולכים להשתין
at their community college,
into their gym strip
these television star trans people
את כוכבי הטלוויזיה הטרנס האלה
have to tackle on a daily basis.
על בסיס יום יומי.
since as far back as I can remember,
predominantly estrogen-based organism.
אבל נשלט בעיקר על ידי אסטרוגן.
public bathrooms and change rooms
שרותים ציבוריים וחדרי הלבשה
to be questioned or harassed.
שיתשאלו אותי או יטרידו.
attacked behind their doors.
מאחורי הדלתות שלהם.
with my pants still halfway pulled up.
עם המכנסיים עדיין חצי משוכות.
screamed at, whispered about,
by a little old lady's purse
עם ארנק של אישה זקנה
I took home that day
70 dollars of rolled up small change
של מטבעות מגולגלים
most of the time these days.
בשרותי הגברים רוב הזמן בימינו.
my change room dilemmas, does it?
את דילמת חדר ההלבשה שלי, נכון?
because I'm not a man.
בשרותי הגברים בגלל שאני לא גבר.
these fearmongering politicians
these bathroom bills.
את חוקי בתי השימוש האלו.
to try and force people like myself
that they deem most appropriate
I was assigned at birth.
ever get their way,
ישיגו את מה שהם רוצים,
will not be a legal option for me either.
לא יהיו אופציה חוקית בשבילי יותר.
brings one of these bills to the table,
את אחד החוקים האלה לשולחן,
go about enforcing laws like these. Right?
את החוקים האלו . נכון?
of bath change rooms at public pools?
בבריכות ציבוריות?
or ethical or plausible way
more dangerous for some of us.
את העולם מסוכן יותר לחלק מאיתנו.
or they opt out of life altogether.
או שהם יבחרו לצאת מהחיים לגמרי.
and gender-nonconforming youth
או לא מתאימים למגדר
when accessing pools and gyms,
כשהם ניגשים לבריכות ואולמות התעמלות,
on how they treat us in airports.
על איך הם מטפלים בנו בנמלי תעופה.
into one of two gender boxes,
She's the daughter of a friend of mine.
and bug jars, the whole nine yards.
וצנצנות חרקים, כל העסק.
what her favorite color was.
at school were harassing her
בגלל שילדים אחרים בבית הספר הציקו לה
to stay out of the boys' bathroom.
of that red juice
that red juice, right? It's so good.
נכון? הוא כל כך טוב.
were four years old.
of the so-called public bathrooms.
בשרותים שנקראים ציבוריים.
the brutal lesson
no bathroom door at preschool
that welcomed people like her.
were going to be a problem,
to talk to her little daughter,
לדבר עם הבת הקטנה שלה,
were going to march on down
and the problem was going to go away,
going to get better when she got older,
יהיה יותר טוב כשהיא תתבגר,
the story of what had happened,
את הסיפור על מה שקרה,
what had happened to her,
if I had ever peed in my pants before.
אם עשיתי פיפי במכנסיים פעם.
how you hit, like, 42 or 43,
I don't know, you pee a little bit
אתם משתינים קצת
or you're stretching.
your bladder is going to grow bigger, too.
to hold your pee for way longer,
gender-neutral bathrooms
שרותים ניטרליים למגדר
into your gym clothes.
a safe and private place
who is sitting out there right now
in your head why this is not a priority,
למה זה לא בעדיפות,
a trans person a safe place to pee
מקום בטוח להשתין
that you feel offends your morality,
שפוגעת במוסריות שלכם,
that probably, hopefully,
the rest of the population.
to care enough about people like me,
לדאוג מספיק לאנשים כמוני,
with body image stuff going on?
who is a foot shorter than his classmates,
שנמוך בחצי מטר מבני כיתתו,
or who need assistance in there?
שצריכים סיוע שם בפנים?
who, for whatever reason,
of what a body should look like?
של איך גוף צריך להראות?
in front of our peers,
transphobic minds overnight,
מוחות טרנספוביים בן לילה,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ivan Coyote - Writer, performerIvan Coyote believes that a good story can help inspire us to invent a better future.
Why you should listen
Ivan Coyote was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. An award-winning author of eight collections of short stories, one novel, three CD’s, four short films and a renowned performer, Ivan’s first love is live storytelling. Over the last nineteen years, they have become an audience favorite at music, poetry, spoken word and writer’s festivals from Anchorage to Amsterdam.
Ivan began performing in 1992, and in 1996 co-founded Taste This, a four person performance troupe that combined live music, storytelling and performance poetry to create a text-driven genre-busting collaborative exchange. Taste This toured North America extensively and in 1998 the four artists published Boys Like Her, a critically acclaimed book that took the stage show to the printed page. Boys Like Her sold out three editions and continues to be considered a notable Canadian contribution to the dialogue around gender identity and sexuality.
Ivan teamed up with Arsenal Pulp Press in 2000, and has since released nine more books. Close to Spiderman (2000), One Man’s Trash (2002), Loose End (2005), Bow Grip (2006), The Slow Fix (2008), Missed Her (2010), Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (2011), One In Every Crowd (2012) and Gender Failure (2014).
Ivan is still fascinated by the intersection of storytelling and music, and works with a number of well-established Canadian musicians, including pianist and composer Veda Hille, songwriter Dan Mangan, folk artist Rae Spoon, cellist Cris Derksen, and violinist Lyndell Montgomery. Ivan has released three CDs of storytelling with music, You’re A Nation (2003) and You Are Here (2007) and Only Two Reasons (2010).
In 2001 Ivan landed a little gig teaching short fiction at Capilano University in North Vancouver. This little night school class led to an accidental discovery: Ivan loves to teach creative writing. Coyote continued to teach short fiction and classes and workshops, and in 2007 was invited to become Carleton University’s writer-in-residence. While in Ottawa, Coyote taught a third year fiction class, and three memoir-writing classes for senior citizens. It was while teaching seniors that Ivan realized their true calling. Ivan strongly believes in listening to the stories of our elders, and encouraging them to write down their lives.
Coyote has since been honoured to be the writer-in-residence at the Vancouver Public Library (2009), The Carol Shield’s writer-in-residence at the University of Winnipeg (2011) and the writer-in-residence at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario (2012).
In addition to these literary and teaching accomplishments, Ivan continues to tour extensively throughout North America and Europe, telling stories not only to festival audiences but to high school students, social justice activists, adult literacy students and senior citizens all across the continent. Ivan believes in the transformative power of storytelling, and that collecting and remembering oral history not only preserves a vital part of our families and where we come from, but that a good story can help inspire us to invent a better future.
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