Its Bathrooms Again

It always seems to boil down to bathrooms!

We can’t have blacks in bathrooms with our white children!

We can’t have gays and lesbians in bathrooms with our children!

We can’t have transgender people in bathrooms with our children!

We can’t have Republicans in bathrooms with our children… Ops… No… No… Wait… We can’t say that!

It sure does seem like more Republican politicians are caught in bathrooms molesting children than all the other three combined.

This is what the ultra-conservative website had to say,

Female students rebel against transgender bathrooms, refuse to use same facilities as boys

February 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Over and over again, we are told by LGBT activists that our schools must be transformed for the children. The massive changes to the curriculums, the transgender bathrooms, the revolutionary new ideologies—we are told that these are simply responses to the grassroots demands of parents and students, who have independently discovered that the way we understood the world for the entire history of Western civilization is, apparently, both hateful and inaccurate.

But nobody appears to have actually asked the students what they want. These policies are justified on the basis that the children need them, but in many instances, the precise opposite turns out to be the case. When one school in Alberta decided to bring in gender-neutral bathrooms back in 2017, many students avoided them because, as any idiot knows, boys and girls generally feel uncomfortable doing their business in a stall next to a member of the opposite sex. Lineups began to form outside the gender-specific bathrooms, and students trekked all the way across the school to avoid using the gender-neutral bathrooms.

“I find it uncomfortable. I have other things to do than boys, in there,” one female student told the media, referring to the changing of feminine hygiene products. “You can hear it.” One student eventually started a petition to demand more gender-specific bathrooms, and he was “overwhelmed” by students looking to sign on the first day. Eventually, he ran out of forms. “You don’t see [gender-neutral bathrooms] anywhere,” he noted. “You don’t see those in restaurants, you don’t see them in government buildings, you don’t see them anywhere, yet we throw them into our schools and assume it’s just fine. I don’t know whose idea this was but it wasn’t a very good one.” Parents, too, were angry that they hadn’t been consulted.

You know we have heard that all before; blacks in the bathroom make me feel uncomfortable, gays in the bathroom make me feel uncomfortable, and now trans people in the bathroom make me feel uncomfortable.

Feeling uncomfortable is not grounds for discrimination!

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More on bathrooms, this time out in California,

Coachella says it’s safe for LGBTQ people, but transgender siblings say they were denied restroom access
LA Times
By Hailey Branson-Potts
February 26, 2019

Donavion “Navi” Huskey just wanted to see Beyoncé.

She had waited all day to see Queen Bey perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio last April and made a quick stop at the restroom before the concert began.

After a 10-minute wait, Huskey reached the front of the line. That’s when, she said, a security guard told Huskey, a transgender woman, she couldn’t use the women’s restroom. She was humiliated.

“Coachella is part of the pop culture zeitgeist,” Huskey said. “It’s all colorful and inclusive. There are tons of LGB [lesbian, gay and bisexual] people typically there. I felt like it would be a good space. … I just didn’t know the festival itself didn’t have policies that were inclusive. That was jarring.”

The next day, Huskey’s sibling, Taiyande “Juice” Huskey — who identifies as transmasculine, presents as male and uses the pronouns “they” and “them” — was turned away from a men’s restroom and escorted out by a security guard who said he would show Huskey to a gender-neutral restroom but then didn’t.

We have seen that same problem here in Connecticut at concert venues. Rent-A-Cop or as they are also known as security guards have been a problem at concerts, they just don’t know the law or put their bias ahead of the law.

The Huskeys said the existence of an all-gender restroom is not an excuse for denying a person access to a male or female restroom.

“It’s a partial solution that they have gender-inclusive options,” said Navi Huskey, a 31-year-old graduate student at UC Irvine. But being relegated to another, separate restroom without choice is a harmful “separate-but-equal” situation, she said.

I have been asked many times about my thoughts on “all-gender bathrooms” and my answer has been “I am in favor of them as long as we are not forced to use them.”