Schools must allow transgender bathrooms, Department of Education says

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/12/feds-schools-transgender-bathrooms-letter-title-ix/84311104/

I am not sure what to think about this anymore.
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  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    ^^^
    No kidding.
  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Yeah ... I don't known either. Young people are already self contious of there bodies, are they not? I was in my teen years. I'd suggest bathrooms with ceiling to wall stalls, that could be costly. Now you're dealing with teenagers, and many can be bullies. Hopefully POD chimes in. POD?
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,309
    Obama just lit of a shit-storm bomb that didn't need to be lit. Good luck trying to focus on anything but this at future school counsel meetings.
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  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    Berkeley county school district in South Carolina already set this mandate. Causing all of the parent to throw their little bitch fits. Thinking that a 9th grade trans is going to molest their precious child.
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  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    I just saw this on the news and it was Obama who made this call........nice job asshat.

    Godfather.
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,648
    Jason P said:

    Obama just lit of a shit-storm bomb that didn't need to be lit. Good luck trying to focus on anything but this at future school counsel meetings.

    fuck'em if they can't get past it and get some work done fuck'em ...
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  • Kat
    Kat Posts: 4,963
    edited May 2016
    Solution: remodeled bathrooms/locker rooms with partitions using funds they get from the gov anyway.

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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    edited May 2016
    In future building plans of public buildings just build unisex washrooms ... You would think people's funding public buildings would be more than happy to just incorporate unisex washrooms ... $$$ saved in construction cost.
    I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin

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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    TDSB Washrooms: Toronto School Board Is Breaking Down Bathroom Barriers

    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/02/17/tdsb-washrooms_n_9252818.html
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  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Degeneratefk said:

    Berkeley county school district in South Carolina already set this mandate. Causing all of the parent to throw their little bitch fits. Thinking that a 9th grade trans is going to molest their precious child.

    as I just stated maybe the parents with the transgender kids will be the ones with trouble as well.
    we're talking about kids and they do stupid things at that age, do you think they'll really just say "well o.k" some will and some will not, is that something a parent should put their child thru ?
    parents should teach their kids to use the appropriate restroom according to their gender.

    Godfather.

  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,309
    lukin2006 said:

    In future building plans of public buildings just build unisex washrooms ... You would think people's funding public buildings would be more than happy to just incorporate unisex washrooms ... $$$ saved in construction cost.

    Every unisex restroom I've seen is for one occupant. The cost would be astronomical.
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  • ckravitz
    ckravitz NJ Posts: 1,668
    From the article:

    "A separate best-practices document suggests ways to accommodate transgender students: Allowing them to use alternate facilities, installing curtains for added privacy, or adjusting schedules to allow them to change when no one else is using the locker room."

    Unless this is going completely over my head (very possible), this may be the worst idea ever. The last thing a transgender kid needs is to have to openly follow a separate and unique set of rules that NEITHER sex follows. In schools no less. This seems just as bad as telling them to use the bathroom for the sex on their birth certificate only they are calling this a best practice. I'm willing to bet that many of these kids don't want to wear a neon sign around their neck every time they have to piss.
  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    Nobody is going to know unless u tell them
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  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Degeneratefk said:

    Nobody is going to know unless u tell them

    if the kids don't the "adults" will.

    Godfather.

  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Jason P said:

    lukin2006 said:

    In future building plans of public buildings just build unisex washrooms ... You would think people's funding public buildings would be more than happy to just incorporate unisex washrooms ... $$$ saved in construction cost.

    Every unisex restroom I've seen is for one occupant. The cost would be astronomical.
    Can they not be redesigned?
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  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,831
    My favorite part in the article was "does not apply to single-sex schools."
  • what dreams
    what dreams Posts: 1,761
    Kat said:

    Solution: remodeled bathrooms/locker rooms with partitions using funds they get from the gov anyway.

    Public schools don't get much money from the feds. Almost all of their mandates are unfunded. Add this one to the list.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,128
    edited May 2016
    the people opposed to this are the same ones who want "creationism" to be taught as part of the curriculum. i'm looking at you texas.

    teaching religion in schools to me is a far greater concern than having to make a unisex bathroom.
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  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    ^^^
    Good point.
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,426
    gimmesometruth27 said:

    the people opposed to this are the same ones who want "creationism" to be taught as part of the curriculum. i'm looking at you texas.

    teaching religion in schools to me is a far greater concern than having to make a unisex bathroom.

    They are also the same people who want only abstinence to be taught in sex ed classes. If they even have sex ed classes.

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