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[quote=Anonymous]If transgender students have a problem with changing with the same anatomical sex, then perhaps they should be accommodated.

If religious students have a problem with changing with the opposite anatomical sex, then perhaps they should be accommodated.

How do you accommodate both?   Seems there is a problem with trying to accommodate both.  Private accommodations for all?  We're already cash strapped.

What solution do you suggest?

Either way, it is being claimed as discrimination.  Those for trans access, seem to keep saying that those with religious moral needs for sex segregation don't count.  The lesser group in number should be the ones accommodated.  It's only in the past couple years that transgender people have been saying it's discriminatory to make them use the bathroom of their anatomical sex.  Why is that discrimination?  They are with people that are the same physically.

If segregation becomes solely separate by "gender identity", then why do people need to separate by how they perceive themselves?  Why is that a need to segregate at all?  I can see rationale for public segregation by sex, as there are sex assaults, rapes, peeping, etc which is a real issue, and are crimes.  Is strict sex segregation wrong?  Especially since there is a majority of people that mandate this for themselves, for ethnic, cultural, safety and yes, even religious, reasons.

Do we make an Amish male student dress next to an anatomical female against his culture and faith?  Do we make a Muslim girl get dressed next to an anatomical male against her faith?  Do we make an Iranian girl change in front of the opposite sex, against her modesty requirements?

There are very diverse needs.  Society has evolved to meet the needs of sex segregation as the least common denominator means of protecting safety and modesty.

If students are told boys can now enter the girls bathroom, and the regulation says they can't tell students who is transgender, how are the girls to know which boy entering is transgender, and which boy is there to peep on the cute girl they like?  When there is an event with adults and children, is it safe to let any adult male enter with the young girls?

How do we accommodate all those who can't change next to the transgender student?  How would that transgender student feel if all those students with lockers around them opt for private changing rooms, leaving them feeling like an outcast?

We need to face reality of the diverse needs, and the reality of the facilities we have to work with.  How do you reasonably accommodate them all.[/quote]

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