Quote Originally Posted by wctriumph View Post
Execution with antiaircraft guns, people don't know what their gender is, go to jail for singing Kung Fu Fighting, everybody is a winner and there are no losers, insanity run amok.

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Dogs and Cats living together... Mass hysteria! Sorry, that's what your post reminded me of.

What I don't understand, and you can include the homosexuality debate with this, is that we're (society) catering to a very small portion of the population. Transgender makes up an estimated .3% of the population is transgender. Compare that to roughly 2.3% of the population identifying as homosexual. So why are we catering to such a small portion of the population? I know maybe a handful of gays (less than 20), and out of that very small handful I know ONE person who was born a man, but currently lives as a woman. Kids between puberty and adulthood (legal adulthood, ie 18) don't even know what's going on with all the hormones and what not going on. Hell, when I was 18 couldn't decide if I liked blonde women or brunette women better, much less anything complex, like what on earth a "gender neutral" person was. Sure, after high school I found out a kid a grade below me changed genders in his mid 20's, and we always wondered about him, but it's not something that happens with any real frequency in our schools that would warrant education or much less shifting policy toward this.

The thing that would anger me as a parent, and not being one it's impossible to fathom the real feelings of parental responsibility, this much I recognize, but being a responsible adult and empathizing with others who do have kids, if I had a daughter and I discovered a male student at her school "identified" as a female and the school considered allowing this young man (born a man and having male genitalia) to utilize female facilities, I would be very disgusted and angry. Granted, my experience, working in a jail and having to deal with this issue once before in that setting, it is a different case. We can't cater to someone's feelers, we approach from the safety and security standpoint. In schools it's a whole different monster where we feel that we can't harm a "confused" child's gentle sensibilities. Is the occurrence so frequent that this even needs to be addressed on such a large scale? If Jefferson County Schools put out a new policy where children who "identified" as a different gender were allowed to use that gender's restroom and locker rooms, would there even be enough children that would necessitate the need for the policy to extend to more than one school? I consider this the eroding of norms that have been clearly established in our society that have worked for over 100 years without much issue.

Side note: on one occasion I was dragged out to a gay bar with a couple of gay friends, and found that they have one all-gender restroom. Talk about uncomfortable! Is this where we are eventually headed? If so, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.