I'm usually pretty open - minded, but...

[mini me]

...this one bugs irks me in many ways.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/201...97M/story.html

Public school officials are apparently ready to implement new state guidelines to accommodate trans-gender students. From the article:

"For example, transgender students may use bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing areas for the gender with which they identify, but those who are not comfortable doing so should be provided with alternatives, such as a unisex or nurses station’s bathroom.

But transgender students cannot be denied access to their preferred bathroom or locker room because of other students’ discomfort."

So, if my daughter were in a bathroom at school, and a male classmate came into the bathroom, my daughter could not object to that! Sorry, but not while I'm her parent.

Also from the article:

"Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, countered on Friday that the “overriding issue with this new policy is that opening girls’ bathrooms to boys is an invasion of privacy and a threat to all students’ safety.”

No shit. School kids, particularly Jr High and High School students, have an amazing capacity to flout school rules and create all kinds of mischief. This is just asking for trouble, IMHO, and as a father of school age daughters makes me see red.

If this kind of "forward thinking" comes to my school district, there's no way my daughters will continue in our public schools.

[piece-itpete]

Agreed. This reminds me of the old saying, 'so open minded ones brains fall out'.

Pete

[ebacon]

I'm a lesbian. Lemme in.

[finnbow]

For the most part, I think high-schoolers are far more tolerant in the LGBT department than us old curmudgeons here.

[ebacon]

I love lesbians. And if women want to come into the men's room then I say let them in.

[icenine]

Ridiculous OP

some people are born hermaphrodites and the parents raise them as either a boy or a girl although genetically they may not be either...so you want to get out the DNA scanner too?

same argument was used by those not wanting to allow gays to serve openly in the military. I can tell you I was in the Navy for 20 years and served on an aircraft carrier, amphibious assault ship and did a tour in Iraq...gays were always there. And no one ever tried to rape me in the shower...

[piece-itpete]

NO boys would EVER put on to get into a girls locker room....

Pete

[ebacon]

Not me. Nope. Never.

[piece-itpete]

LMAO!!

Pete

[merrylander]

In some countries restrooms are non-gendered.