Well, the transgender population (ca .3% of Americans) wins the prize---Pres. Obama's support and backing. They will be allowed, if he has his way, to enter the restroom, shower, locker room, dorm of their choice, the one that fits their gender identity. "Who cares?" you say---I do . . . and apparently hundreds of thousands of others.
Some states are going to fight the Federals over this issue, but short of the unlikely events of another civil war or withdrawing from the Union, they are doomed to failure, I fear. So, where do we stand?
Some say we who disagree need to modify our attitudes to more closely match the modern state of tolerance and protecting the rights of the minorities. I'm thinking it's time we begin again to focus on the "common" good and "common" rights. I'm thinking I, too, have rights [esp. privacy] that should also be protected. Conflicting rights, eh? Now what do we do?
Some reasonable solution(s) is surely out there. Pres. O(bomb)a dropped this on everyone with no real prep of any kind. I'm guessing that arrogant, fun-loving narcissist is having a good laugh about this in the privacy of his luxurious bedroom at night with his spouse.
Despite our prankster-President's glee, many folks in our country now have pointed at them a loaded gun full of stress bullets. School administrators---administrators of any sort---must now decide how to deal with the myriad problems and lawsuits this directive would create should it be enforced as law.
I think the costly solution is probably the best one: Begin the process of modifying current restrooms somehow into individual, private stalls. [Brings to mind the nifty two-hole outhouse we had when I was a kid.] Super expensive? I know. Make bathrooms in all new facilities individual-use ones. Retail store managers have the same potentially expensive and legally lethal problems as public administrators.
Another approach is to just ignore it: It will go away just as did the furor over abortion---just as we're able to overlook various genocides around the globe. We Americans are getting better and better at looking the other way, rather than dealing with explosive and repulsive problems.
Hey, I think maybe I'm already not seeing it as such a . . . . .
Some states are going to fight the Federals over this issue, but short of the unlikely events of another civil war or withdrawing from the Union, they are doomed to failure, I fear. So, where do we stand?
Some say we who disagree need to modify our attitudes to more closely match the modern state of tolerance and protecting the rights of the minorities. I'm thinking it's time we begin again to focus on the "common" good and "common" rights. I'm thinking I, too, have rights [esp. privacy] that should also be protected. Conflicting rights, eh? Now what do we do?
Some reasonable solution(s) is surely out there. Pres. O(bomb)a dropped this on everyone with no real prep of any kind. I'm guessing that arrogant, fun-loving narcissist is having a good laugh about this in the privacy of his luxurious bedroom at night with his spouse.
Despite our prankster-President's glee, many folks in our country now have pointed at them a loaded gun full of stress bullets. School administrators---administrators of any sort---must now decide how to deal with the myriad problems and lawsuits this directive would create should it be enforced as law.
I think the costly solution is probably the best one: Begin the process of modifying current restrooms somehow into individual, private stalls. [Brings to mind the nifty two-hole outhouse we had when I was a kid.] Super expensive? I know. Make bathrooms in all new facilities individual-use ones. Retail store managers have the same potentially expensive and legally lethal problems as public administrators.
Another approach is to just ignore it: It will go away just as did the furor over abortion---just as we're able to overlook various genocides around the globe. We Americans are getting better and better at looking the other way, rather than dealing with explosive and repulsive problems.
Hey, I think maybe I'm already not seeing it as such a . . . . .
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