So they want to base access on sex as defined by chromosomes? OK, so female if XX and male if XY. That was easy!
Oh wait, some people have XXX chromosomes, YYY, XXYY, XXXXYYYY, and so on.
Science has been chewing on this very deeply for decades, and they could never figure out which combinations of X and Y chromosomes should be assigned male or female., not even when Billions of Dollars were at stake (The Olympic Games).
And then it got worse. They found individuals with XX chromosomes that had male sex organs, and XY individuals with female attributes. And then they found hermaphrodites with both male and female organs (but no, they couldn't do what you might think). "Genetic expression" is the term for this.
Why do the Republicans hate science so much? Not reality-based? Truth getting in the way?
sigh. Why doesn't anyone ever pass a law that requires and provides funding for single stall bathrooms that anyone can use? My health care clinic is full of them.
Honestly, there should be absolutely no objection to single stall multi gender use bathrooms everywhere. I've been using one on an airplane for the last 27 years at work as a Flight Attendant and so has the flying public for even longer!
Those Aircraft Cleaners that clean them every night, and Provisioning Agents that clean them during the day every time the planes go through Provisioning stations should make as much as our CEO! (Flight Attendants most definitely have the strongest immune systems of any workers in any job anywhere!)
"The Bill is not based upon animus towards those who identify as transgender, nor was it passed to relegate transgender students to the fringes of society." - by narrowly defining biological sex and stating one must use the bathroom matching that narrow definition (which @BJ Ahlen points out isn't binary), it is inherently discriminatory towards transgender people. The spin factor is quite large here.
So a boy who identifies as a girl (and dresses like a girl) must use the boys’ locker room and bathroom? How is that going to end well? To force any transgender student to use the facilities of their biological sex seems rather cruel. But then, perhaps that’s the point.
If you look across the board of all policy proposals from the two major political parties in the U.S., the cruelty only shows on one side.
Now that we have a problem, let's solve it by converting our communal school bathrooms (that barely have a "modesty partition") to one-holers with a sink (or put the sinks outside, like at many roadside rest stops).
Oh, I forgot, schools are supposed to be nearly cost-free in many states (cough, cough), because the money needs to go to building $250-$500 Million Dollar Sports Stadium Edifices, and then handing over the finished Stadium to a team owner billionaire to keep all the profits from decades of ticket sales.
Priorities!
Local taxpayers support it, because to them, circuses are more important than bread (see how great that worked with defunding the schools!).
I almost couldn’t finish reading this, I was so mad. The judge acknowledges the discrimination that would be faced by trans students and then, instead of defending them, defers and says “the court must stay within its lane.” A lane of bigotry and ignorance apparently.
Paul Clement must be very proud - or not very busy and in need of a retainer, like most lawyers. (I’m a lawyer.). He’s gone from representing an administration that gave us an ill-advised phony war in Iraq to policing bathrooms. Take a bow! Wait til taxpayers one day get the property tax bill for three school bathrooms instead of two. There will suddenly be a re-evaluation of the “privacy” issue.
I’ll admit that I’ve been in a lot of bathrooms, after all I am 78 years old. But I don’t understand why so many people are obsessed with what goes on there. What do you DO there that would reflect badly on you if observed by another human being? I just don’t get it. Aren’t there other things to be worried about -- hunger, extreme weather events, cancer, etc.
So they want to base access on sex as defined by chromosomes? OK, so female if XX and male if XY. That was easy!
Oh wait, some people have XXX chromosomes, YYY, XXYY, XXXXYYYY, and so on.
Science has been chewing on this very deeply for decades, and they could never figure out which combinations of X and Y chromosomes should be assigned male or female., not even when Billions of Dollars were at stake (The Olympic Games).
And then it got worse. They found individuals with XX chromosomes that had male sex organs, and XY individuals with female attributes. And then they found hermaphrodites with both male and female organs (but no, they couldn't do what you might think). "Genetic expression" is the term for this.
Why do the Republicans hate science so much? Not reality-based? Truth getting in the way?
sigh. Why doesn't anyone ever pass a law that requires and provides funding for single stall bathrooms that anyone can use? My health care clinic is full of them.
Honestly, there should be absolutely no objection to single stall multi gender use bathrooms everywhere. I've been using one on an airplane for the last 27 years at work as a Flight Attendant and so has the flying public for even longer!
Based on my own personal experience, my concern with airplane bathrooms has always been less with who’s using them than who’s cleaning them.
Those Aircraft Cleaners that clean them every night, and Provisioning Agents that clean them during the day every time the planes go through Provisioning stations should make as much as our CEO! (Flight Attendants most definitely have the strongest immune systems of any workers in any job anywhere!)
"The Bill is not based upon animus towards those who identify as transgender, nor was it passed to relegate transgender students to the fringes of society." - by narrowly defining biological sex and stating one must use the bathroom matching that narrow definition (which @BJ Ahlen points out isn't binary), it is inherently discriminatory towards transgender people. The spin factor is quite large here.
So a boy who identifies as a girl (and dresses like a girl) must use the boys’ locker room and bathroom? How is that going to end well? To force any transgender student to use the facilities of their biological sex seems rather cruel. But then, perhaps that’s the point.
If you look across the board of all policy proposals from the two major political parties in the U.S., the cruelty only shows on one side.
Now that we have a problem, let's solve it by converting our communal school bathrooms (that barely have a "modesty partition") to one-holers with a sink (or put the sinks outside, like at many roadside rest stops).
Oh, I forgot, schools are supposed to be nearly cost-free in many states (cough, cough), because the money needs to go to building $250-$500 Million Dollar Sports Stadium Edifices, and then handing over the finished Stadium to a team owner billionaire to keep all the profits from decades of ticket sales.
Priorities!
Local taxpayers support it, because to them, circuses are more important than bread (see how great that worked with defunding the schools!).
I almost couldn’t finish reading this, I was so mad. The judge acknowledges the discrimination that would be faced by trans students and then, instead of defending them, defers and says “the court must stay within its lane.” A lane of bigotry and ignorance apparently.
By the way - and this is only partly said in jest - who is going to determine which bathroom Pat from SNL has to use?
Paul Clement must be very proud - or not very busy and in need of a retainer, like most lawyers. (I’m a lawyer.). He’s gone from representing an administration that gave us an ill-advised phony war in Iraq to policing bathrooms. Take a bow! Wait til taxpayers one day get the property tax bill for three school bathrooms instead of two. There will suddenly be a re-evaluation of the “privacy” issue.
I’ll admit that I’ve been in a lot of bathrooms, after all I am 78 years old. But I don’t understand why so many people are obsessed with what goes on there. What do you DO there that would reflect badly on you if observed by another human being? I just don’t get it. Aren’t there other things to be worried about -- hunger, extreme weather events, cancer, etc.