Transgender policies: What I hope Hillary says.

The justice department publicized its position regarding policies about transgendered people and bathrooms and changing rooms in schools that received public funds just a few days ago. In the same story I heard that both the Hillary and Sanders campaigns were remaining quiet. Here is what I hope Hillary says.

“Bathrooms: Bathrooms and any other facilities where it is not necessary to display one’s genitalia should be used by people who present themselves as the sex of the facility in the rest of their lives.

Facilities requiring the exposure of one’s genitalia: Should be used by people whose genitalia match the sex of the facility.”

I think the DOJ’s position simply requires too much imagination and empathy on the part of ordinary Americans to work to anyone’s good, transgendered people included. Defendants of the DOJ’s approach (those I’ve heard so far) talk about education being the remedy. But education takes time. Maybe in the future we’ll all have a comfortable category for people whose sexual identity doesn’t match their genitalia, but to call people who haven’t reached that level of insight bigots is not going to be conducive to education.