“New school bathrooms welcome all genders” read the headline in the December 26, 2014 Star &
Tribune. (Emphasis mine). I would have thought “both” genders would be sufficient…and shocking. I was unaware, until recently, that there
were more than two sexes. (Male and
female. Yin and Yang. The potential for a biblical union of two becoming one whole). I was aware that we needed to update the
trite old cliche’ “the birds and the
bees” to “the birds and the bees, the bees and the bees, and the birds and the
birds” due to the omnipresence of homosexuality in the mainstream media. Now, however, total chaos has been loosed and all bets
are off as to where this will take us.
We now
have birds and “bird-questioning”, bees and “bee-questioning”, birds who
“self-identify” as bees, bees who “self-identify as birds”, birds who are
becoming bees, bees who are becoming birds, bird-bees, bee-birds, bi-birds,
bi-bees, polyamorous birds and bees (segregated and together), trans*birds,
trans*bees, combined bird-bee spirits, cis-birds and cis-bees (boring sticks in
the mud that they are), and we haven’t, apparently, even scratched the surface!
The
article states that, “these schools are placing Minnesota among a growing list
of states taking steps to ensure that transgender
and ‘gender non-conforming’ students
feel safe and comfortable in school,
whether that’s using the rest room or getting dressed in a locker room.” This
makes the heterosexual kids sound like
an army of closed-minded bores just toting some sort of party line.
And what about the thoughts and feelings of
this vast majority of boys and girls? The 95% or more that aren’t GLBTG or
‘gender-questioning’? Are they going to feel, “safe and comfortable” in bathrooms and locker rooms open to everyone? Hell,
most guys weren’t- and aren’t- very comfortable taking showers with other guys
after gym class, seeing how they ‘measure up’, etc.
Are
most parents really ‘comfortable’ with, say, their 16 year-old daughter urinating in a
stall next to an 18 year-old guy
dropping a deuce? Or having to insert a tampon? Or with not knowing what
gender or genders are around her and what their level of confusion, curiosity, or
experimentation desires are? Are most boys and girls? There is no possible way
that the majority of students feel “safer and more comfortable” in that
environment.
Later
on in the article, there is the recounting of the time a mother of a 9 year-old
girl who "fell outside of the traditional
gender binary” let her daughter use the men’s bathroom at a movie theater.
“It was absolutely terrifying” she said. “As a parent, all you want is for your
child to be safe. And I was worried she might not be safe.”
Really? You let your nine year-old girl use the men’s bathroom in a public movie
theater and you claim all you want is
for your child to be safe? Obviously, that’s not all you want. What trumped
the fact that you were terrified that your young daughter might not be safe in
the men’s bathroom?
All-gender
bathrooms and locker rooms are a symbol of these schools being ‘welcoming’
places, according to their proponents.
One of
the leaders of a support group called “Transforming Families” stated that she felt that the movement to support transgender students was about 20 years behind that of gays and lesbians. (Homosexuality
was considered by the American Psychiatric Association to be a ‘mental illness’
until as recently as the 1960’s).
Yes,
and the movements to support bestiality and incest are likely 20 years behind
this one. In fact, according to some things I’ve read lately, in certain
circles have they have already started. I am not equating homosexuality with these latter
behaviors, nor even ‘trans-genderism’ to coin a phrase. But the demands that
gay marriages be seen as absolutely- and
legally- “ equal” to heterosexual child producing unions and must be considered
completely ‘normal’( with the partners eligible to receive any and all benefits
that the heterosexual couples who brought them into this world may get) is
absurd. We simply cannot consider agender, Trans*Female and Two-Spirit folks
and behaviors as completely ‘normal’ without rendering the word meaningless and
demeaning the inherent sacredness of the male-female relationship and
anatomies.
One of
the students quoted in the article opined that “It’s a very basic right- to be
able to use the bathroom and feel safe and comfortable.” That’s as may be, but
transgender and gender-questioning kids already had their own bathroom at that
students school. And all we’ve done is reverse the ratio of kids who feel safe
and comfortable in the schools bathrooms and showers from 95% comfortable and
5% uncomfortable- or worse- to 5% comfortable and 95% stressed.
Diversity.
Ain’t it grand?
Except…wait
a moment. One bathroom fits all? We
can’t have a diversity of bathrooms, apparently.
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