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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I taught many classes in the Women's Studies/Gender Politics department, so I get the terms and understand how people make sense of them.

Here's what always baffles me.  Why the concern about bathrooms?  There are stalls, and not much to see.  We don't have gendered bathrooms in our homes.  If the women's bathroom has a line out the door, I have gone into the men's.  I just had to pee.[/quote]

As far as I can tell, the panic sets in when schools, especially, start making public rules that say that kids can use bathrooms that conform with their gender identity.   Or when people realize that this kid that identified as a boy in 1st and 2nd grade, is suddenly presenting as a girl and wants to use the girl bathroom.   People don't want these boys in the girl's bathroom.  They might not really care if the boy looks like a girl but they are afraid that boys will start trying to get into the girls bathroom, sneak a peek, be disruptive and make the girls scared -- and that  no one will be able to discipline the boys who do that kind of thing, because they boys will say they are transgender.

It is CRAZY on so many levels, but that is what I think people are really concerned about.[/quote]

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