Reactionary students in Missouri protest transgender student's right to use bathroom/locker rooms [View all]

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Full Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/us/teenagers-protest-a-transgender-students-use-of-the-girls-bathroom.html?_r=0

Holy fuck, why is this even a problem? Just let people go to the bathroom and locker room they feel most comfortable in. If others get offended then they are the ones with a problem. This should be a non-issue.

I wish this article had more of the protesters opinions though, if only so that I could refute them. It would probably the whole "This is just a guy who wants to look at girls in the locker room" spiel. Yeah, like people just choose to receive endless harassment and a significantly increased change of killing themselves in order to catch an unsexualized glimpse or two of women's bodies several years after they come out. That kind of argument makes me sick. It's such a dehumanizing and dishonest point of view.

Instead of protesting in favor of higher wages, lower college tuition, environmental sustainability, police accountability, reproductive rights, LGBT rights, and whatnot, these students felt it was more worth their time to protest against transgender rights. What these students are doing is very bigoted and reactionary, and I just hope that as they grow older, they'll become less intolerant, prejudiced, and ignorant. This is absolutely pathetic.