The hypocrisy has reached new levels

[Count Duckula]

To your original point, you have not had to 'pay' as you state.  You have been denied access, much as the same way a male would be denied access to a female toilet, or a young person is denied the pension.

At my University we have a similar thing, and also a 'female lounge' (a place for breastfeeding mothers).  Do you think that mothers would be comfortable breastfeeding in front of males?

Um.

From my point of view, an attitude of "we don't want you in here because this is the place where only black people should be" is just as poisonous as "we don't want you in here because this is the place where only white people should be."

As for breastfeeding mothers, their privacy is another matter entirely. But if our culture didn't attach some sort of negative stigma to physical differences or actively suckling babies, there would be no such need for this segregation.

(Hey, what can I say, I attend a liberal women's university. ;))