I wouldn't mind but I"m generally a little shy and don't like walking around a bunch of naked strangers regardless of gender.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, she went to Caltech and MIT.

The ignorance underlying this remark is mind-boggling.

The ignorance and assumption underlying this remark is mind-boggling.

Hi - this is the to mom of the transgendered teen. Does the HS he go to accept that he is transgendered? which bathroom or locker room does he use? You sound like an awesome person and your kid is lucky to have you as a mom!

Anonymous wrote:Wow, she went to Caltech and MIT.

The ignorance underlying this remark is mind-boggling.

Wow, she went to Caltech and MIT.

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Anonymous wrote:A few things -- of all the spas she choose Spa World? I can't help but think this was a set up. You are required to be naked for parts of spa world. Not just the locker room where you can quickly dress/undress but walking around in the pool area. Completely naked. This is why Spa World picked this person out. I would have no problem with a transgender in the locker room but wandering around pre-op on the female side? I would have a problem. That is why I think this was a set up. There are so many spas in there area and this person just happens to pick the one with the naked/single sex requirement? I call bullshit on that.

If it is true, what the parent of the transgender teen says, then I would think transgenders would stay away from SpanWorld knowing what it required.

I smell setup

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Would not bother me at all. I hope she sues the shit out of the owners and shuts them down.

They are taking a beating over this on yelp.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/spa-world-centreville

I am MORE likely to go to spa-world now, having seen this...If I saw a naked male body in the women's pool area, I would stop going

Riya Suising

Anonymous wrote:A few things -- of all the spas she choose Spa World? I can't help but think this was a set up. You are required to be naked for parts of spa world. Not just the locker room where you can quickly dress/undress but walking around in the pool area. Completely naked. This is why Spa World picked this person out. I would have no problem with a transgender in the locker room but wandering around pre-op on the female side? I would have a problem. That is why I think this was a set up. There are so many spas in there area and this person just happens to pick the one with the naked/single sex requirement? I call bullshit on that.

If it is true, what the parent of the transgender teen says, then I would think transgenders would stay away from SpanWorld knowing what it required.

I smell setup

I totally accept transgendered women being in women's only areas (i.e. locker rooms, rest rooms, whatever), but it would weird me out to see a penis flailing about.

You have to be nude at spa world. Swim suits are not permitted in the pool or in the treatment areas (sauna, etc). It's single gender pools - not co-Ed.

Anonymous wrote:DCUM confuses me. Here are lots of posts defending the right of a man-who-sees-himself-as-a-woman using a women's locker room. I seem to remember periodic hysteria on this forum ranting about women who bring their 6/7/8yo sons into the women's locker room, and how traumatizing it is for other women and their daughters.

Just curious if you are all consistent in your moral indignation and/or political correctness.

exactly! This individual is probably an activist looking to create drama...

I have several thoughts about this - first, mom of transgendered teen, you are awesome and I wish I knew you IRL, your viewpoint and willingness to discuss is so refreshing. second, most of you have expressed views based on the assumption this woman was completely nude, but is there anything in the press stating that? I'm curious. third, I have never been to Spa World but I've thoroughly looked through the website and I never saw anything about being required to be completely nude - is that really true? I couldn't go there and just wear a bathing suit? and fourth - number three is moot because after that disgustingly offensive statement they put out i will never, ever go there. think about what they said outside the context of this specific incident. it is shocking and hateful!

Anonymous wrote:Would not bother me at all. I hope she sues the shit out of the owners and shuts them down.

They are taking a beating over this on yelp.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/spa-world-centreville

A few things -- of all the spas she choose Spa World? I can't help but think this was a set up. You are required to be naked for parts of spa world. Not just the locker room where you can quickly dress/undress but walking around in the pool area. Completely naked.

OK, any business that requires customers to be naked is the one in the fucked up category, not the customer who is just trying to live her life.