fosterj717...you should be writing news pieces or at least a blog....Brilliant description of the current occupier of our White house and his bootlickers. What a disgrace his 50 year term has been - and still is. He brought "change" for sure. he, and Bill Clinton's wife" will eventually go away, but the real danger is the millions of idiots who think these communist/socialists are right and will continue to slavishly vote for the freebies and feel good huggy nonsense. If one wishes to change their identity, rock on but don't force me to love and worship them for their perversions.. leave us fuddy duddy straights alone and we will reciprocate.

It's smoke and mirrors look at the other hand.

It's only going to get worse. Welcome to the new War on Gender.

In my area, there's a group called "Beyond Binary" who go into schools and preach to the children that gender is wrong and should be thrown off like some kind of old raincoat, which of course implies that it's also wrong for people to have a sexual preference.

This correlates to my experience with casually knowing a few transsexuals, they are private and sensitive. In fact that seems to be true of the majority of the homosexual community that I have personally known.

Look at what has been spent on accommodating the handicapped with ramps and doors and bigger toilet stalls, etc. They have certainly impacted our daily lives; but then they are also an ever-growing proportion of the population. Privacy? How are public urinals private?

Just wait until the transgender population grows by leaps and bounds mainly because it will begin to dawn on a lot of heterosexual mail students that they can shower with girls. Talk about the Law of Unintended Consequences!

That it it is insignificant is the whole point. I have observed the same things in different cultures, and the key word there is "cultures". The differences are culturally based on long history, not moral choices in any respect, simply, long standing preferences. That makes the US "standard" no more "prudish" than it makes Spanish Basque behaviors "liberated". And as others have pointed out, the insignificance of the issue is the whole point or, as I like to think of it, "game". If you can raise an insignificant issue to the level of "rights', supposedly akin to self-defense or private property, you devalue the important rights, and also distract the MSM and public from much more serious violations of rights Obama is perpetrating with his f***ing pen. For example, the recent change to overtime rules made by the administration will have a massive and negative impact on the economy, perhaps even more than the current significant increases in the minimum wage. Yet, except for a brief story on Fox News, I've seen no discussion of it. "Not as important as bathroom rights". To anyone truly familiar with the theory of limited, Constitutional government, the idea of government using force to impose a "right" to use a specific bathroom is beyond the absurd. The "unimportance" of the issue is what gives it, in this context, its importance. We cannot let the insignificant and meaningless issues of the day go unchallenged, and treat them as if they were important, as the important issues slip by unnoticed.

Well, you just wanted to lay low and be who you are. This government won't allow that. You must be used to divide. You'll be thrust into the heat of battle because there's money to be made and power to be brokered.

As a straight man and father I am not concerned by anybody in your position. I have a client who has done what you have. What I'm concerned about is pedophiles taking advantage of this. I'm concerned about little girls not being granted privacy in a locker room or restroom.

Thanks for sharing...

Regulations are laws. Try to ignore a regulation and the law will come down on you with the ultimate threat that if you fight back hard enough, you may end up dead.
Regulations are just laws that bureaus write because Congress did not have the guts and time to get them passed. A regulation is just as much a noose about your neck as is a law. There is nothing goodie-goodie about them, mostly nudging people to believe that they keep society safe and orderly.

"The only reason that you do not want teenage boys showering with teenage girls is that boys are sexually aggressive." Well, that's not the only reason. But, after that do we need more reasons? LOL! It is my understanding that Federal money is attached to this program.

I keep thinking that the government should no longer be in the business of school...

Since you have never been a girl during your puberty years, Mike. You don't understand and never will. Girls can be so shy about their own bodies at that age, they do whatever they can to keep the other girls from seeing them naked in the locker rooms. It's not right or fair that the government steps in and insist these girls now have to shower or appear in the locker room with someone who is sporting a penis.

Not all those that call themselves transgender are legit cases, some are just mentally ill. There is a disorder for it.

I'm just grateful my girls are grown and I taught them to avoid public bathrooms whenever possible. This whole subject is so stupid.

Our President needs to stop getting his policy ideas from Netflix rentals.

It is applicable.

"All men are predators; all women are prey."

You can't have it both ways. A TS girl is female in all but body parts, not male. So calling her him in one context and her in another does not work. Also when she goes on hormones she is chemically castrated so the boy parts are not exactly a threat. But frankly almost no TS wants to be naked in front of others with the "wrong" parts. That is intensely embarrassing to most to say the least. So the answer is to have the TS teen shower etc separately. That is likely the best solution.
But the bathroom crap is just stupid. Women aren't looking at each other's parts in normal bathrooms with stall with doors.

'mom I think there's a boy changing in my locker room'

" If she becomes aroused in a "

She !