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05-14-2016, 03:09 PM   #2650005  /  #1
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oh no! how will we ever make transgender bathrooms safe?

http://www.kgw.com/news/education/na...ools/191021881
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- President Obama’s order involving transgender students and bathroom use in school will have little impact on Oregon’s largest school district, Portland Public Schools.

The district adopted rules on just that issue three years ago.

At Lincoln High School, it’s unclear how many students who are transgender use the bathroom they identify with. The principal said there is only one student who uses a special private bathroom set aside for transgender students.

“Some people have repressed fears about sex in bathrooms,” said Peyton Chapman, Lincoln’s principal.

She believes transgender rights are a civil rights issue not that different from the segregation based on race.

“If we had stopped 50 years ago or 70 years ago with people's discomfort, we'd still have segregated schools. So if people feel it’s weird or uncomfortable we need to address their discomfort through education,” she said.

The school policy seemed fine with every student asked on Friday.
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05-16-2016, 05:18 PM   #2650448  /  #3
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Lol. That is truly a thing of beauty.
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05-17-2016, 07:29 PM   #2650778  /  #4
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Joe Rogan weighs in.
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05-17-2016, 08:03 PM   #2650796  /  #5
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Texas man follows woman into a bathroom to check her gender because she was ‘dressed like a man’
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.2622029

Woman mistaken for transgender harassed in Walmart bathroom
http://m.newstimes.com/local/article...in-7471666.php
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05-17-2016, 08:41 PM   #2650818  /  #6
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People really just need to mind their own business. There's something terminally wrong with our society when peeing is the subject of such intense hatred and controversy.
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05-17-2016, 09:25 PM   #2650833  /  #7
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What about straight male crossdressers in YWCA locker rooms with little girls?
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05-17-2016, 09:31 PM   #2650837  /  #8
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05-17-2016, 09:47 PM   #2650838  /  #9
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Answer the question.
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05-17-2016, 10:11 PM   #2650846  /  #10
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Answer the question.
Is that a serious problem? Are there loads and loads of straight mail cross-dressers causing problems with little girls in YWCA locker rooms? And where are the moms of those little girls?

I'm not quite certain how anyone would determine before hand whether someone entering a restroom was of the gender that restroom was identified as being for. What? There should be a monitor at the entrance to each one, checking down the pants or up the skirt for the appropriate software?
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05-17-2016, 11:07 PM   #2650853  /  #11
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What about straight male crossdressers in YWCA locker rooms with little girls?
Are you looking to creep on little girls instead of little boys now?
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05-17-2016, 11:08 PM   #2650854  /  #12
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What about straight male crossdressers in YWCA locker rooms with little girls?
Rather than spending all that brain power worrying about what parts another person has, how about not leaving kids unattended in situations where they might be nekkid in the first place?

Alternatively... Grown Up Rooms and Kid Rooms

Or fuck it - there's nothing wrong with seeing genitals. They aren't scary and most of them don't have cooties. Sex isn't a bad thing, and puritans were fucked in the head.
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05-17-2016, 11:38 PM   #2650858  /  #13
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... all that brain power ...
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05-18-2016, 01:39 AM   #2650881  /  #14
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What about straight male crossdressers in YWCA locker rooms with little girls?
Rather than spending all that brain power worrying about what parts another person has, how about not leaving kids unattended in situations where they might be nekkid in the first place?

Alternatively... Grown Up Rooms and Kid Rooms

Or fuck it - there's nothing wrong with seeing genitals. They aren't scary and most of them don't have cooties. Sex isn't a bad thing, and puritans were fucked in the head.
Would being fucked in the head be an example of bad sex?
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05-18-2016, 01:49 AM   #2650883  /  #15
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Not necessarily.
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05-18-2016, 06:26 AM   #2650908  /  #16
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05-18-2016, 07:56 AM   #2650931  /  #17
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Could theoretically do the last one, since apparently still has all the necessary bits. Good strategy to keep all bases covered.
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05-18-2016, 11:50 AM   #2650956  /  #18
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People really just need to mind their own business. There's something terminally wrong with our society when peeing is the subject of such intense hatred and controversy.
Spoken like a person with out children.
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05-18-2016, 11:52 AM   #2650957  /  #19
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05-18-2016, 11:54 AM   #2650958  /  #20
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People really just need to mind their own business. There's something terminally wrong with our society when peeing is the subject of such intense hatred and controversy.
Spoken like a person with out children.
You do know that child predators are more likely to be in the men's room?
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05-18-2016, 11:59 AM   #2650959  /  #21
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People really just need to mind their own business. There's something terminally wrong with our society when peeing is the subject of such intense hatred and controversy.
Spoken like a person with out children.
Don't be an idiot. Unless you regularly take your kids into club/tavern/bar bathrooms in the evenings, where people of any gender may be doing stupid drunk things, all they're likely to encounter is people using the bathroom for its intended purpose. Do you think hordes of transgender people are having naked orgies in the mall public facilities at four in the afternoon?

What the hell is wrong with you?
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05-18-2016, 12:13 PM   #2650964  /  #22
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You do know that child predators are more likely to be in the men's room?
Yes. But deviants are also common who like little girls, and women. Letting them hang out in the ladies rest room is not a good idea.

Real transgender persons I have no problem with. But letting any man who says he is a tranny use the same public bathroom as my granddaughters isn't going to happen.
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05-18-2016, 12:21 PM   #2650969  /  #23
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05-18-2016, 01:56 PM   #2651039  /  #24
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Answer the question.
Is that a serious problem?
Of course it is. Public pools are an example where a man claiming he is a woman would be allowed by law to change and shower surrounded by girls of all ages, who normally don't worry about men looking at them.

This batshit idea that just because a man claims he is a woman can freely use the girls changing rooms and showers is fucking insanity. Trust me, it will not work. If somebody has a penis and they are naked next to your daughters and wife in the female shower room, and the Government says this is OK and must be allowed, heads will roll.

The Mores exist for good reason.
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05-18-2016, 02:11 PM   #2651043  /  #25
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People really just need to mind their own business.
Who is allowed into a public bathroom/shower when my offspring are using it doesn't get any more real about minding my own business.

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She believes transgender rights are a civil rights issue not that different from the segregation based on race.
Well that's a goddamn shame. People segregate by gender. Try telling a black man that his daughters now have to change and shower and shit surrounded by young and old naked men (because they have a penis) who claim they are a woman, see what happens.

You might see some segregation at work.
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