
i keep telling myself that it's way weirder for a guy to talk to me in the bathroom than for me to be in there. like no one talks in the men's room no one makes eye contact everyone wants to not know anyone else is in there. so it's really a them problem and that's how i get okay with it
One day I decided I was just gonna walk in and I meet any weird eye contact I get from strangers, and if offered a urinal I am not afraid to declare that I need to shit. Sometimes it’s still scary I just do it anyways. I know this isn’t possible for everyone tho I think I just have really thick skin and give 0 fucks.
I started off with gender neutral bathrooms to get comfortable with that first. Then I moved to men’s occasionally and now I just go to men’s period. Acting confident helped as I gradually became genuinely confident. Next thing I know, other men are walking along with me to the bathroom (sometimes the bathroom is hard to find) because they see me as a cis dude with how I present myself and now I feel far more confident to go in.
this is true. usually the most I get is a confused glance but if I ignore it and start peeing they just accept that this is where I pee and move on. Most of the time I don’t even get that. And I don’t pass. Mens bathrooms are like the gym, everyones just worried about themselves and no one’s judging you as much as you think they are.