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In reply to the discussion: Reactionary students in Missouri protest transgender student's right to use bathroom/locker rooms [View all]LostOne4Ever
(9,752 posts)47. No thanks? But by your own logic there would be boys!
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]See, that objection is baseless unless you want to advocate for full gender segregation ala Saudi Arabia...and that has worked out swimmingly for women over there.
They can still put on make up and fix their hair at the sink. They can even gather with their friends and joke around while they do it. Nothing preventing anything you mention.
And if they want to walk around in a towel they don't really care about privacy do they? Their concern is less privacy and more trans-misogyny. [/font]
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Reactionary students in Missouri protest transgender student's right to use bathroom/locker rooms [View all]
gobears10
Sep 2015
OP
Do students change their clothing, shower, and go to the toilet in the halls? (No, taking off a coat
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#18
They don't do that in the locker room either, but in the enclosed lockable stalls.
uppityperson
Sep 2015
#20
What, specifically, is the problem with allowing her in the girls locker room?
uppityperson
Sep 2015
#52
In the gyms I have belonged to we still have to walk from our lockers to the showers
Tipperary
Sep 2015
#21
There are private shower stalls at my gym. There is a large locker room. We walk back and
Tipperary
Sep 2015
#39
I have no problem with a transgender woman in the locker room. There is a trans woman at my gym and
Tipperary
Sep 2015
#51
You do know that poster is advocating for something you said you were against right?
LostOne4Ever
Sep 2015
#58
So you think it is fine to discriminate against a transgirl but not a transwoman?
LostOne4Ever
Sep 2015
#62
Agree! At our school the guys used to compare dicks and all. It was tiring and humiliating. n/t
RKP5637
Sep 2015
#54
Transgender people need to use the restrooms and locker rooms they're most comfortable in
gollygee
Sep 2015
#4
So this kid you know would feel cool being naked in the communal girls' shower?
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#14
well, when I was an older grad student at a local Dominican college I swam in the
CTyankee
Sep 2015
#26
I don't have a problem w/ transgender kids using the appropriate locker room,
smirkymonkey
Sep 2015
#17
You don't THINK?? It would be DISASTROUS FOR THE GIRLS, FOR GOD'S SAKE. Cell-phones, anyone?
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#19
A bathroom is more than just a bunch of stalls. It's fixing one's attire; maybe buying a tampon;
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#13
What would be wrong with fixing one's attire, buying a tampon or even farting in front of a
uppityperson
Sep 2015
#64
Are you saying she should be denied use of the girls locker room because she would be uneasy using
uppityperson
Sep 2015
#57
Really? Well, this 17-year-old was a self-identified boy until February. So now this kid can make
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#28
You must not have read the article or else missed the words "publicly" and "13".
uppityperson
Sep 2015
#38
Sounds like Lila is fine being in the girls locker, it is the others who are uncomfortable.
uppityperson
Sep 2015
#32
In the video they state that she was offered her own private accommodations but she didn't want
Juicy_Bellows
Sep 2015
#41
On a trivial side note, NONE of the news coverage mentions her parents or guardians...
steve2470
Sep 2015
#53