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primavera

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18. Maybe the solution is for us all to stop worrying so much about which sign hangs on the door

Reply to davidn3600 (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 05:15 PM

Mar 2013

It's aways struck me as anachronistic and faintly neurotic to have separate bathrooms for men and women. It's a toilet, for god's sake. Who cares who's peeing into it?

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Colorado school officials decline mediation in transgender restroom dispute [View all] davidn3600 Mar 2013 OP

"stigmatizing and psychologically damaging" wordpix Mar 2013 #1

The restrooms they're suggesting she use are for one person at a time. pnwmom Mar 2013 #2

Um! That still singles out the young lady. nt longship Mar 2013 #3

Not if they let other kids use the bathrooms, too. Most wouldn't, pnwmom Mar 2013 #4

Is your daughter a transsexual? longship Mar 2013 #6

No, but the point is that if the single unit bathrooms were freely available, pnwmom Mar 2013 #7

Read the story: They aren't "freely available" TalkingDog Mar 2013 #10

Read the article wpelb Mar 2013 #14

Thanks, low bandwidth here. longship Mar 2013 #15

Or they could just rescind the ban. (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2013 #5

What is WRONG with this school? We're talking about six-year-olds here. Ken Burch Mar 2013 #8

Probably a lawsuit from transphobic or otherwise uninformed parents. nt geek tragedy Mar 2013 #9

Really? wpelb Mar 2013 #16

But what if another little boy Andy Stanton Mar 2013 #11

Or obligation to do so? wpelb Mar 2013 #17

Another side effect of these bathroom restrictions is to make it harder sgsmith Mar 2013 #12

wtf she's a girl let her use the girls bathroom azurnoir Mar 2013 #13

Maybe the solution is for us all to stop worrying so much about which sign hangs on the door primavera Mar 2013 #18