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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]On the issue of bathrooms..find the whole thing confusing. A trans man (a woman transitioning to be a man) at work uses women’s bathroom. He looks like a man, albeit a very short one. Has a goatee and a mustache. Why still use women’s bathroom? Makes me very uncomfortable because he looks like your average (very short) man.[/quote]

Bathrooms for trans people are incredibly fraught and complicated. My spouse is trans, very recently started transitioning, and he makes a case by case decision. Largely at this time, that means using women's rooms, which triggers some dysphoria, but less than being confronted using a men's room. Sometimes, if he feels like the situation is safer, he'll use a men's room. Generally, we all need to spend a lot less time policing who is or isn't in the bathroom with us; some people are fighting real personal battles over which bathroom to use and we should respect whatever decision they make.[/quote]

Do you have kids?

I’m sure it’s tough for your spouse, but can you also see that it might be tough for parents of teen girls?  Maybe parents of teen and tween girls are not comfortable with the idea of ‘young men who identify themselves as female’ being in the school bathrooms with them?[/quote]

DP.

First of all, PP's spouse is transitioning FROM being a woman TO being a man. So you really ought to be posting about how it's tough for parents of teen boys, who are not comfortable with the idea of "young women who identify themselves as male" in being in the school bathrooms with them. But you didn't. Why?

Second of all, speak for yourself. My 2 teen girls' main concerns in the bathroom are (a) doing their bathroom business (b) people vaping. [/quote]

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