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Related: About this forumIs there a good resource for explaining the trans bathroom usage issue to people?
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I'm having a facebook discussion with someone who is super upset about how Obama forced this on us, and how upsetting it would be for a trans person to use a bathroom when his kid is there. I've tried to talk him through the topic but he just doesn't seem to get it. Is there a good explainer article or video out there that people here know of?
Thanks!
Turbineguy
(37,392 posts)Attend to your own needs and resist peeking at others' endowments.
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Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Don't trivialize this.
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Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Not Democrats. Quit trivializing civil rights.
List of bathroom legislation. All brought up by Republicans AGAINST transgender citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathroom_bill#United_States
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)blm
(113,129 posts)Do they REALLY want a transman to be forced to use the women's room because of a designation on a birth certificate?
Do they really want transwomen to be forced into the men's room? Sure they do - because many of them are perverts.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-trans-woman-asks-you-really-want-me-in-the-same-bathroom-as-your-husband_us_563b997fe4b0411d3070003a
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)If it went viral, it could change the world.
blm
(113,129 posts)Unfortunately, I know every argument they will make.
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Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)If someone identifies as a woman, they are a woman. You and no government has a right to tell them they are not.
Transgender rights IS national politics. I wouldn't leave ANY civil rights issue to the states, because the states have a long, sordid history of fucking with civil rights.
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Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)I don't believe that anyone in your family (including yourself) has ever voted Democratic.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)They try to make you use the bathroom of the gender you were assigned at birth, but if you look very clearly like a different gender, you can't do that. A man with a beard can't walk into a women's restroom easily. Telling people he had been assigned the gender of female at birth wouldn't improve things. I would worry about a transgender woman's safety in a men's room. Again, telling people she was assigned the gender of male at birth wouldn't improve things. And non-binary people who look androgynous (like my child) get harassed in any bathroom. It just means people can't use any public restroom, and that's ridiculous. People need to mind their own business and let other people pee in peace.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)burrowowl
(17,654 posts)several user bathrooms are partitioned, I don't see what the problem is, except Mens Restrooms are usually smellier and dirtier, but have less traffic.