The Five school districts with Title IX violations, how much money do they stand to lose?

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

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Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

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Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

I think that’s why it’s important to post on these threads. There are many of us who feel the same way.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

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Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

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Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

LOL! You might want to look at those stats again. You reversed it. 49% do think they should require them to use bio sex bathrooms.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

This

Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

Seems like you can’t read simple stats. Let me break it down for you:

49% of American favor or strongly favor a policy that would require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with. 26% oppose. 25% neither oppose nor favor.

Even more interesting is when you break it down by party and compare the percentages to 2022. In general Americans now have a greater tendency to support policies meant to protect trans people. So back to the bathroom issue, in 2022, 20% of democrats favored a policy that would require people to use the bathroom that matched their sex at birth. In 2025 25% support a policy. Same trend with independents. In 2022 was 41% and in 2025 it’s 49%. Trend is going in the same direction with a host of other policies. I am part of this trend so I understand it. I’m a liberal and consider myself a progressive. When this first became an issue 10 yeas ago I think I thought republicans were crazy and bigoted. Maybe 4 years ago I changed my mind. Same with the sports issue. I don’t care that much about either issue (it’s not on my list of priorities) but I do think the trans rights movement went too far and started demanding things that are nonsensical and actually harm children.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

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Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

All of us agree and you are in some small minority of crazed evil people who are irrational and hate vulnerable children. This line of reasoning has persuaded me and probably loads of others. I can see how you’ve convinced loads of people to support trans rights.

Oh wait.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

This

Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

Seems like you can’t read simple stats. Let me break it down for you:

49% of American favor or strongly favor a policy that would require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with. 26% oppose. 25% neither oppose nor favor.

Even more interesting is when you break it down by party and compare the percentages to 2022. In general Americans now have a greater tendency to support policies meant to protect trans people. So back to the bathroom issue, in 2022, 20% of democrats favored a policy that would require people to use the bathroom that matched their sex at birth. In 2025 25% support a policy. Same trend with independents. In 2022 was 41% and in 2025 it’s 49%. Trend is going in the same direction with a host of other policies. I am part of this trend so I understand it. I’m a liberal and consider myself a progressive. When this first became an issue 10 yeas ago I think I thought republicans were crazy and bigoted. Maybe 4 years ago I changed my mind. Same with the sports issue. I don’t care that much about either issue (it’s not on my list of priorities) but I do think the trans rights movement went too far and started demanding things that are nonsensical and actually harm children.

I am in the same place. This is not an issue that is top of mind or particularly important to me but it does defy logic when people act like they have no idea how anyone could have a problem with this. It's not that trans people may use a bathroom that does not align with their sex at birth. The issue is that anyone can say they are trans and gain access to these spaces and culturally we aren't allowed to say "Hey, is this legit? without being called a bigot. There are people who can and do exploit this.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

This

Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

Seems like you can’t read simple stats. Let me break it down for you:

49% of American favor or strongly favor a policy that would require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with. 26% oppose. 25% neither oppose nor favor.

Even more interesting is when you break it down by party and compare the percentages to 2022. In general Americans now have a greater tendency to support policies meant to protect trans people. So back to the bathroom issue, in 2022, 20% of democrats favored a policy that would require people to use the bathroom that matched their sex at birth. In 2025 25% support a policy. Same trend with independents. In 2022 was 41% and in 2025 it’s 49%. Trend is going in the same direction with a host of other policies. I am part of this trend so I understand it. I’m a liberal and consider myself a progressive. When this first became an issue 10 yeas ago I think I thought republicans were crazy and bigoted. Maybe 4 years ago I changed my mind. Same with the sports issue. I don’t care that much about either issue (it’s not on my list of priorities) but I do think the trans rights movement went too far and started demanding things that are nonsensical and actually harm children.

I am in the same place. This is not an issue that is top of mind or particularly important to me but it does defy logic when people act like they have no idea how anyone could have a problem with this. It's not that trans people may use a bathroom that does not align with their sex at birth. The issue is that anyone can say they are trans and gain access to these spaces and culturally we aren't allowed to say "Hey, is this legit? without being called a bigot. There are people who can and do exploit this.

The current news cycles aren't helping. And, another report today.
Spanberger better get a better answer to this issue than she gave today. Not sure dodging it is helping her.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

This

Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

Seems like you can’t read simple stats. Let me break it down for you:

49% of American favor or strongly favor a policy that would require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with. 26% oppose. 25% neither oppose nor favor.

Even more interesting is when you break it down by party and compare the percentages to 2022. In general Americans now have a greater tendency to support policies meant to protect trans people. So back to the bathroom issue, in 2022, 20% of democrats favored a policy that would require people to use the bathroom that matched their sex at birth. In 2025 25% support a policy. Same trend with independents. In 2022 was 41% and in 2025 it’s 49%. Trend is going in the same direction with a host of other policies. I am part of this trend so I understand it. I’m a liberal and consider myself a progressive. When this first became an issue 10 yeas ago I think I thought republicans were crazy and bigoted. Maybe 4 years ago I changed my mind. Same with the sports issue. I don’t care that much about either issue (it’s not on my list of priorities) but I do think the trans rights movement went too far and started demanding things that are nonsensical and actually harm children.

My bad. It is the opposite of what I wrote.

Anyway, the point still stands - the majority of people (including Ds & Rs) are not pushing for bathroom policies.

Some people are more susceptible to fearmongering I suppose.

I'm sorry you have some irrational fears around this - but you should address those instead of trying to oppress transgender kids.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

This

Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

Seems like you can’t read simple stats. Let me break it down for you:

49% of American favor or strongly favor a policy that would require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with. 26% oppose. 25% neither oppose nor favor.

Even more interesting is when you break it down by party and compare the percentages to 2022. In general Americans now have a greater tendency to support policies meant to protect trans people. So back to the bathroom issue, in 2022, 20% of democrats favored a policy that would require people to use the bathroom that matched their sex at birth. In 2025 25% support a policy. Same trend with independents. In 2022 was 41% and in 2025 it’s 49%. Trend is going in the same direction with a host of other policies. I am part of this trend so I understand it. I’m a liberal and consider myself a progressive. When this first became an issue 10 yeas ago I think I thought republicans were crazy and bigoted. Maybe 4 years ago I changed my mind. Same with the sports issue. I don’t care that much about either issue (it’s not on my list of priorities) but I do think the trans rights movement went too far and started demanding things that are nonsensical and actually harm children.

My bad. It is the opposite of what I wrote.

Anyway, the point still stands - the majority of people (including Ds & Rs) are not pushing for bathroom policies.

Some people are more susceptible to fearmongering I suppose.

I'm sorry you have some irrational fears around this - but you should address those instead of trying to oppress transgender kids.

allowing kids who identify as transgender to use a private nongendered restroom… IS NOT OPPRESSION

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

This

Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

Seems like you can’t read simple stats. Let me break it down for you:

49% of American favor or strongly favor a policy that would require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with. 26% oppose. 25% neither oppose nor favor.

Even more interesting is when you break it down by party and compare the percentages to 2022. In general Americans now have a greater tendency to support policies meant to protect trans people. So back to the bathroom issue, in 2022, 20% of democrats favored a policy that would require people to use the bathroom that matched their sex at birth. In 2025 25% support a policy. Same trend with independents. In 2022 was 41% and in 2025 it’s 49%. Trend is going in the same direction with a host of other policies. I am part of this trend so I understand it. I’m a liberal and consider myself a progressive. When this first became an issue 10 yeas ago I think I thought republicans were crazy and bigoted. Maybe 4 years ago I changed my mind. Same with the sports issue. I don’t care that much about either issue (it’s not on my list of priorities) but I do think the trans rights movement went too far and started demanding things that are nonsensical and actually harm children.

My bad. It is the opposite of what I wrote.

Anyway, the point still stands - the majority of people (including Ds & Rs) are not pushing for bathroom policies.

Some people are more susceptible to fearmongering I suppose.

I'm sorry you have some irrational fears around this - but you should address those instead of trying to oppress transgender kids.

allowing kids who identify as transgender to use a private nongendered restroom… IS NOT OPPRESSION

Look around. This relentless, escalating attack on transgender kids is oppression. You are actively engaging in that. Congrats.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

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Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

Seems like you can’t read simple stats. Let me break it down for you:

49% of American favor or strongly favor a policy that would require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with. 26% oppose. 25% neither oppose nor favor.

Even more interesting is when you break it down by party and compare the percentages to 2022. In general Americans now have a greater tendency to support policies meant to protect trans people. So back to the bathroom issue, in 2022, 20% of democrats favored a policy that would require people to use the bathroom that matched their sex at birth. In 2025 25% support a policy. Same trend with independents. In 2022 was 41% and in 2025 it’s 49%. Trend is going in the same direction with a host of other policies. I am part of this trend so I understand it. I’m a liberal and consider myself a progressive. When this first became an issue 10 yeas ago I think I thought republicans were crazy and bigoted. Maybe 4 years ago I changed my mind. Same with the sports issue. I don’t care that much about either issue (it’s not on my list of priorities) but I do think the trans rights movement went too far and started demanding things that are nonsensical and actually harm children.

My bad. It is the opposite of what I wrote.

Anyway, the point still stands - the majority of people (including Ds & Rs) are not pushing for bathroom policies.

Some people are more susceptible to fearmongering I suppose.

I'm sorry you have some irrational fears around this - but you should address those instead of trying to oppress transgender kids.

But I’m not the only one with “irrational fears.” U brought the survey to make it look like people with my views are some tiny minority. We aren’t. When you finally learned to read what you sent you changed it to majority. But see only 26% of Americans support allowing trans ppl in the bathroom of the gender they identify with and not their biological sex. The other 25% don’t know. But look at where we are trending: an even higher percentage (66%) support requiring trans athletes to compete in teams that align with their biological sex. It gets even better because it turns out that Americans are complex and not the simpleton bigots you think they are. A majority of Americans, 56%, support laws that protect trans people from discrimination when it comes to jobs, housing etc. Thanks so much for sharing this survey.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

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Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

Seems like you can’t read simple stats. Let me break it down for you:

49% of American favor or strongly favor a policy that would require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with. 26% oppose. 25% neither oppose nor favor.

Even more interesting is when you break it down by party and compare the percentages to 2022. In general Americans now have a greater tendency to support policies meant to protect trans people. So back to the bathroom issue, in 2022, 20% of democrats favored a policy that would require people to use the bathroom that matched their sex at birth. In 2025 25% support a policy. Same trend with independents. In 2022 was 41% and in 2025 it’s 49%. Trend is going in the same direction with a host of other policies. I am part of this trend so I understand it. I’m a liberal and consider myself a progressive. When this first became an issue 10 yeas ago I think I thought republicans were crazy and bigoted. Maybe 4 years ago I changed my mind. Same with the sports issue. I don’t care that much about either issue (it’s not on my list of priorities) but I do think the trans rights movement went too far and started demanding things that are nonsensical and actually harm children.

My bad. It is the opposite of what I wrote.

Anyway, the point still stands - the majority of people (including Ds & Rs) are not pushing for bathroom policies.

Some people are more susceptible to fearmongering I suppose.

I'm sorry you have some irrational fears around this - but you should address those instead of trying to oppress transgender kids.

But I’m not the only one with “irrational fears.” U brought the survey to make it look like people with my views are some tiny minority. We aren’t. When you finally learned to read what you sent you changed it to majority. But see only 26% of Americans support allowing trans ppl in the bathroom of the gender they identify with and not their biological sex. The other 25% don’t know. But look at where we are trending: an even higher percentage (66%) support requiring trans athletes to compete in teams that align with their biological sex. It gets even better because it turns out that Americans are complex and not the simpleton bigots you think they are. A majority of Americans, 56%, support laws that protect trans people from discrimination when it comes to jobs, housing etc. Thanks so much for sharing this survey.

It’s not that deep. Leave our kids alone, bigot.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

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Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

Seems like you can’t read simple stats. Let me break it down for you:

49% of American favor or strongly favor a policy that would require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with. 26% oppose. 25% neither oppose nor favor.

Even more interesting is when you break it down by party and compare the percentages to 2022. In general Americans now have a greater tendency to support policies meant to protect trans people. So back to the bathroom issue, in 2022, 20% of democrats favored a policy that would require people to use the bathroom that matched their sex at birth. In 2025 25% support a policy. Same trend with independents. In 2022 was 41% and in 2025 it’s 49%. Trend is going in the same direction with a host of other policies. I am part of this trend so I understand it. I’m a liberal and consider myself a progressive. When this first became an issue 10 yeas ago I think I thought republicans were crazy and bigoted. Maybe 4 years ago I changed my mind. Same with the sports issue. I don’t care that much about either issue (it’s not on my list of priorities) but I do think the trans rights movement went too far and started demanding things that are nonsensical and actually harm children.

My bad. It is the opposite of what I wrote.

Anyway, the point still stands - the majority of people (including Ds & Rs) are not pushing for bathroom policies.

Some people are more susceptible to fearmongering I suppose.

I'm sorry you have some irrational fears around this - but you should address those instead of trying to oppress transgender kids.

But I’m not the only one with “irrational fears.” U brought the survey to make it look like people with my views are some tiny minority. We aren’t. When you finally learned to read what you sent you changed it to majority. But see only 26% of Americans support allowing trans ppl in the bathroom of the gender they identify with and not their biological sex. The other 25% don’t know. But look at where we are trending: an even higher percentage (66%) support requiring trans athletes to compete in teams that align with their biological sex. It gets even better because it turns out that Americans are complex and not the simpleton bigots you think they are. A majority of Americans, 56%, support laws that protect trans people from discrimination when it comes to jobs, housing etc. Thanks so much for sharing this survey.

It’s not that deep. Leave our kids alone, bigot.

Not my fault that PP (or was that you?) linked to the survey. You can keep calling ppl bigoted but doesn’t change the fact that they aren’t some tiny minority like you or PP were previously claiming. And yes you are right it isn’t that deep. That’s why the majority of the globe think ppl like you have gone off the rails.

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Anonymous wrote:This bathroom issue is ridiculous! At my DCs public elementary all the kids use the same bathroom (boys, girls, trans, whatever). That's what stall doors are for. The main door (into the larger bathroom area/sink area) is open, so teachers, etc. can monitor, if needed, to make sure kids wash their hands.

Guessing they don’t have issues like menstruating all over the toilet seat and boys getting unexpected hard ons. Sorry not to be crass but Jesus who cares about your toddlers.

I think you need help, you sound unduly obsessed with sexualizing minors.

News flash: minors can and do commit sexual assault.

PP here and my concerns about gender based bathrooms are less about fear of sexual assault. I’m more concerned about a lack of privacy for sexes based on biological differences between them; specifically, allowing teens a private space to deal with biologically male/female issues. I’m not dismissing sexual assault concerns. Also, ideally, private individual bathrooms are the holy grail but retrofitting all schools and in light of safety concerns that’s not realistic.

This

Again please explain your privacy concerns when kids can go into a stall in a bathroom and close the door.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but bathroom stall doors do not offer much privacy. There are usually huge gaps.

This is a weird take, are you peering through those gaps, PP? I have literally never had an issue with privacy in a stall.

Not a weird take at all. The gaps PP is referring to do create a problem… Elementary kids are always peeping through them and older kids harass kids through them. And g*d forbid when phones are added to the mix. So not a weird take. It’s clearly a statement of someone who’s been around kids in school bathrooms. I don’t think you understand the reality.

This. This is the second time someone here is unfairly ridiculed for mentioning the large gaps in the doors, but they are a reality, and the ridicule doesn’t fool anyone who has kids in MS and HS.

Well I have kids in high school. They used to be in middle school. I have used the bathrooms many times in both their high and middle schools. They all have normal stalls. Never seen large gaps. What school has these supposedly large gaps?

I mean, the bathroom pictured here is pretty typical. Where do your kids go to school that their stalls don’t have gaps?

https://www.schoolfix.com/the-simplest-checklist-for-school-bathroom-maintenance

Correct, there are small gaps. I have never seen stalls with the large gaps the PP claimed were there in their kids' school. Which school has these LARGE gaps? Name the school.

Let's flip the script.
Which school does not have large gaps? You are telling me that a school you know (because you work there or your kid goes to school there?) has floor to ceiling solid stall doors in the kid's bathroom?

Name the school.

DP.

Woosh…there go those goal posts. Now the standard is floor-to-ceiling solid doors?


“Large gaps” haven’t been an issue at any of my kids’ schools: Taylor ES, DHMS, W-L, AT.

Pretty obvious from the PP's response that there are no actual APS schools with these so called LARGE GAPS in the stalls. PP is either a liar or a troll without kids in APS.

I don’t care about the gaps. I’m against gender bathrooms and want sex based bathrooms. I live in Arlington and have kids in APS and have voted democratic every election. We exist!

You aren’t going to convince me on some dumb anonymous board of the merits of your beliefs about gender vs sex based bathrooms nor I you. I dream, however, that these post will wake up at least some progressives in Arlington to two facts. This issue isn’t so one sided that you have universal support on it; you don’t. And, calling the other side “bigots” and accusing them of being bad human beings who are discriminatory and Trump supporters and MAGA etc reflects more on you than on those of us who believe in sex based bathrooms. We are just parents doing the best for our families who disagree with you about this. I don’t care if a trans kid is in my child’s grade; I don’t think they have cooties. I would let my child be friends with said kid, I would be polite to them and to their parents. I believe in treating humans with respect. I also can believe in sexual based privacy.

Why? What is behind your irrational fear? Maybe try to get to the root of that instead of trying to come after transgender kids.

Fortunately, most people in the US -- Ds and Rs -- DO NOT think we need to require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with (49% R+D, 25% D). Less than 25% of Ds nationwide.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/


It’s just not an issue for the vast majority of people in extremely blue and LGBTQ-friendly Arlington.

Seems like you can’t read simple stats. Let me break it down for you:

49% of American favor or strongly favor a policy that would require trans people to use public bathrooms that match their sex at birth, rather than the gender they identify with. 26% oppose. 25% neither oppose nor favor.

Even more interesting is when you break it down by party and compare the percentages to 2022. In general Americans now have a greater tendency to support policies meant to protect trans people. So back to the bathroom issue, in 2022, 20% of democrats favored a policy that would require people to use the bathroom that matched their sex at birth. In 2025 25% support a policy. Same trend with independents. In 2022 was 41% and in 2025 it’s 49%. Trend is going in the same direction with a host of other policies. I am part of this trend so I understand it. I’m a liberal and consider myself a progressive. When this first became an issue 10 yeas ago I think I thought republicans were crazy and bigoted. Maybe 4 years ago I changed my mind. Same with the sports issue. I don’t care that much about either issue (it’s not on my list of priorities) but I do think the trans rights movement went too far and started demanding things that are nonsensical and actually harm children.

My bad. It is the opposite of what I wrote.

Anyway, the point still stands - the majority of people (including Ds & Rs) are not pushing for bathroom policies.

Some people are more susceptible to fearmongering I suppose.

I'm sorry you have some irrational fears around this - but you should address those instead of trying to oppress transgender kids.

allowing kids who identify as transgender to use a private nongendered restroom… IS NOT OPPRESSION

Private, nongendered bathrooms would be the ideal in any other conversation. This isn’t about trans kids. It’s about trans activists trying to get as much attention as possible.