LGBTQ Commissioner slams critics of airport’s new gender-neutral restrooms

Thanksgiving prompted a surge in travel across the US. Some people appear to have noticed for the first time that Kansas City airport has a new terminal. It took four years to build and cost $1.5 billion. It includes the choice of modern, gender-neutral restrooms with private stalls.

The restrooms met a mixed response when unveiled earlier this year. Many people love them. Some people, unsurprisingly, slammed it as another example of crazy wokeness.

Sigh.

One man who has heard enough of the criticism is the chair of the Kansas City LGBTQ Commission, Justice Horn (pictured above). He responded to a couple of tweets posted over the holiday weekend. One said the new restroom existed purely to “appease trans lunatics.”

Horn responded, “Let me correct this tweet: ‘Kansas City’s brand new airport allows anyone, of any background to use a single stall bathroom for greater privacy.’

“Just like the bathrooms at your very home AND the bathrooms on the planes, they are single stall, all gender facilities—grow up.”

Let me correct this tweet: “Kansas City’s brand new airport allows anyone, of any background to use a single stall bathroom for greater privacy.”

Just like the bathrooms at your very home AND the bathrooms on the planes, they are single stall, all gender facilities—grow up. pic.twitter.com/Wu4reTSEWq

— Justice Horn (@JusticeHorn_) November 25, 2023

In a subsequent tweet, Horn rolled his eyes hard that someone should get so upset over the issue.

Lawd, we used to be a proper country.

Now men get on Twitter to clutch their pearls about an airport bathroom that’s like the one on the airplane and the one at their house. Since we’re talking about bathrooms, this guy is 1 ply toilet paper—can’t really hold up to a lot. pic.twitter.com/q0WDP2L6Gw

— Justice Horn (@JusticeHorn_) November 25, 2023

Fully revamped Kansas City terminal

It should be noted this is not the only restroom in the airport – there are also gender-specific restrooms on each floor. It’s also worth noting that the stalls look like their own private rooms, with doors to the floor: something many users appreciate. Below is a sneak peak look posted in September 2022 before they opened earlier this year.

(2/2) Here’s a sneak peek into the “All Gender Bathrooms” at the new KCI Terminal that will serve the Kansas City LGBTQ+ community: pic.twitter.com/CWmCY3t6k2

— LGBTQ Commission of Kansas City (@LGBTQCommission) September 15, 2022

Many of X users praised the new restrooms and made their own points.

I think it’s WILD they call us snowflakes and get so offended about things like this—an airport bathroom. They are annoying, weak people wanting to make an issue when there isn’t one there. It’s performative and disingenuous.

— Justice Horn (@JusticeHorn_) November 25, 2023

I am a woman who travels with an adult with intellectual disabilities—-These bathrooms make my life 100x easier!!!
I also like the privacy for myself!

— votevotevote (@jdenzin1) November 25, 2023

I recently helped a blind woman negotiate a huge women's restroom in an airport while her husband waited outside. How much better would it have been for him to have helped her find a stall and sink? My father couldn't travel with my mother who had dementia. This is much better

— All I Am Saying (@AllIAmSaying1) November 26, 2023

Justice Horn

The Kansas City LGBTQ Commission named Horn as its chair at the end of 2022. His appointment made him the first Generation Z Kansas citizen to chair a city of Kansas City commission. Horn went viral in January when he revealed he’d even been getting random messages of congratulations on Grindr for his new role.

I do not and will not regret posting this because I’m young, single, and gay—but even the folks on Grindr are wishing me well on becoming Chair of the LGBTQ Commission. Thanks kings. ✨😌🤣 pic.twitter.com/yZhB1odzfe

— Justice Horn (@JusticeHorn_) January 2, 2023

The revamped Kansas City Airport terminal opened to the public in February Here’s a little video demonstrating the new restrooms.

Friendly reminder that if you don’t want to use one of the two multi-user all-gender restrooms in the new terminal at Kansas City International Airport, you don’t have to.

(There are 15 gender-specific restrooms I will gladly point you to if you can stop yelling for a second.) pic.twitter.com/FMBjI2vsN7

— Justin Meyer (@JustinMeyerKC) March 1, 2023

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