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Originally Posted by Chris is me

... so following that same logic, do you move the trans person out of the room or do you remove the transphobe from the team? What's the difference in this scenario? They are both issues of comfort level that are fundamentally rooted in prejudice.

"Racist" implies that there was some sort of disrespectful or harassing behavior occurring to allow you to identify this individual as a racist to begin with, hence, the removal of this individual from the team. The "transphobe" situation is different (seeing as how they're still on the team implies you're using the term to describe someone who is uncomfortable rooming with some of the opposite sex that identifies with as the same sex as opposed to someone who has regularly been disrespectful or harassing to others). That said, people of the same sex are generally roomed together, unless there is some sort of known issue or incompatibility. People of the opposite sex are not roomed together, no matter their gender. Push comes to shove, the whole travel team could end up in individual rooms.