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Long, long piece.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/us/national-debate-over-transgender-bathrooms-turns-personal-at-rural-vermont-high-school.html?_r=0
The way A J Jackson tells it, he kept his head ducked down and pretended to fiddle with his cellphone as he walked into the boys bathroom and headed for a stall at Green Mountain Union High School here.
But the way some of his classmates see it, A J was still Autumn Jackson, a girl in boys clothing, who had violated an intimate sanctum, while two boys were standing at a urinal, their private parts exposed.
Its like me going into a girls bathroom wearing a wig, Tanner Bischofberger, 15, a classmate of A J Jacksons, who was not one of those in the bathroom, said this week. Its just weird.
A complaint about Mr. Jacksons using the boys bathroom set off a protest by students advocating the right of their transgender classmate to use the bathroom of his choice. On Thursday, the schools superintendent announced a new practice at the high school allowing transgender students to use the sex-specific bathroom of their choice, rather than being encouraged to use a gender-neutral bathroom. The announcement came a day before the Obama administrations national directive was announced.
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)the need for privacy. Perhaps they should put a partial wall a few feet behind the urinals. Or why have urinal at all? We don't have urinals in our homes and it's just fine.
moonbabygo
(281 posts)just make all bathrooms unisex and everybody go back to what they were doing
Boudica the Lyoness
(2,899 posts)philosslayer
(3,076 posts)The two self-righteous twerps wearing the straight pride tshirts should be shunned.
David__77
(23,365 posts)I take from this that the genitals were in clear view to a casual passer-by. This strikes me as unlikely!
I think Mr. Bischofberger is a bit hung up!