Transgender Bathroom Debate / myLot

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Gouverneur, New York

May 1, 2016 11:36am CST

I don't know how it is where you are but here in this area of Florida there is an ongoing battle about the bathrooms in the schools. It turns out that on of the Central Florida school boards have decided that the children will go into the bathrooms of the sex on their birth certificates. In other words, if they were born a boy they use a boys bathroom, if born a girl they use the girls bathroom. A transgender young person will not be allowed to use the restroom of the sex they identify with. At least, not yet. It seems that down the road they will plan to have restrooms for transgender students. There have been protests and unset people concerning this issue. What do you think?

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (56282)

• Canada

1 May 16

I am not a transgendered person, so I do not know first handed the feelings that they have. But I do know as the person that I am that I feel that there is too much talk and emphasis put on this subject as of late. I worked with a lady, who became that in her later years as she was born a man. I knew how it made me feel about using the same washrooms, but I kept it private so that I didn't offend her, and I think that our society needs to do a bit more of that. Or they need to add another set of washrooms all together and let it be.

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Susan

@HazySue (39265)

• Gouverneur, New York

2 May 16

@Juliaacv I was looking to see if others felt the same way - there is way too much talk about this stuff.

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (56282)

• Canada

3 May 16

@HazySue I think so too, too much pressure on these people and they deserve a little privacy just like the rest of us do don't they?

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Susan

@HazySue (39265)

• Gouverneur, New York

30 May 16

@Juliaacv I agree. I think people do make way too much of this issue.

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Hope

@1hopefulman (45111)

• Canada

2 May 16

Maybe we should have smaller individual bathrooms that are more private and anyone can use them?

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Susan

@HazySue (39265)

• Gouverneur, New York

2 May 16

@1hopefulman I think you are right.

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Kimberley

@mom210 (9170)

• United States

6 May 16

I think they need to have a single person bathroom that has a person with a dress on the door with a slash and a person with pants on the door. meaning both. Whoever wants to use it, use it. Win/Win everybody should be happy.

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Susan

@HazySue (39265)

• Gouverneur, New York

30 May 16

@mom210 I think the single bathroom is the mostly likely answer. I think nowdays there are people looking for a disagreement.

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PaintsOnSlate

@PainsOnSlate (21845)

• Canada

30 May 16

I have been reading about this discussion. I will be interested to see what happens in the end. I think there should be a smaller wash room for transgender, but it also makes me wonder how many school aged kids have gone through that process. I thought It was adults only..

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Susan

@HazySue (39265)

• Gouverneur, New York

30 May 16

@PainsOnSlate I think that kids are sexually aware so much younger today than when we were younger. I am interested to see what happens also. It is certainly causing stir here.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382115)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 May 16

I guess the optimum is single toilets and no designation. This debate doesn't seem to have hit Australia yet but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

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Lena Kovadlo

@lovebuglena (52162)

• Staten Island, New York

14 Mar 18

If a transitioning man who is not yet a woman went into a women's bathroom I wouldn't be comfortable with that. Why can't they just have a bathroom for girls, a bathroom for boys, and one (with just one toilet) that's unisex.

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Susan

@HazySue (39265)

• Gouverneur, New York

17 Mar 18

It is a good question. There are so many people fighting the transgender idea that they will have a hard time getting schools and businesses to do so. I think that you are who you are.

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Bobby Larkin

@hostessman (11871)

• Tucson, Arizona

1 May 16

I think it is just another issue that will cause a lot of problem.. There will be many more

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Susan

@HazySue (39265)

• Gouverneur, New York

2 May 16

@hostessman this too will pass and another issue will take it's place.