Vermont Transgender Teen Pushes for Gender Neutral Bathrooms

WCAX reports (http://bit.ly/2nnnFc) on a transgender teenager who is pushing for gender-neutral bathrooms in all Vermont schools. As the report notes, at a Queer Youth Summit earlier this year a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teens identified gender-neutral bathrooms as the number one thing that would make their school life better. (8/29/09)

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[xxxreadysetgo]

@DeltaBravo1216 You aren't sorry, so don't say that you are. People like you are the ones that hurt transgendered people, and you have no excuse for that.

[starman380]

While a transgender woman like myself can use the women's room and a transgender man can use the men's room, multi-stall and single gender neutral restrooms are still very needed even if you don't like the concept and the reason why is because some people are gender non conforming and it would be helpful for many other reasons as well.

[rondord1]

sick slob your a female get over it

[andrews4774]

I agree. for anyone thinking this would be a HUGE change, in fact its pretty much a case of having only cubicles, and not urinals too. I am however worried that many girls (just for example) might feel unsafe entering the same bathroom as a large group of boys... again, just an example. so this is a tricky one, not just in the question of LGBT, but also other regular social issues...

[JamesGod08]

Lets pander to all the minorities ! YAY!

[counterclockwise345]

@2013wearestillhere And since I couldn't fit this in my last comment: I'm not really going to say anything about transgender people because I don't know that much about that specifically.

[counterclockwise345]

@2013wearestillhere I was confused when you wrote "My premise: Male youths are not born that way but are conditioned to be gay and/or transgender." since you did not put that in the context of an abusive situation so it remained a general statement. Honestly I wouldn't call those people gay in the first place. Having a homosexual relation is not the same as being attracted to the same gender. So I guess I agree with you with a different conceptual understanding.

[2013wearestillhere]

@counterclockwise345 "The problem for me is that it sounds like justifying abuse."

I'm not sure what you meant...My whole diabolical plot is to give people a choice,people knowing they can choose regardless of what went on in the past or who made the choice originally...I especially want abused children to have a choice,and not be told they were born gay simply because they're gay presently because an elder turned them onto it,and they are now hooked.

No one has to be gay if not desired.

[counterclockwise345]

@2013wearestillhere But... I wasn't conditioned to be gay. It just kind of happened. And if you're worried about me being some promiscuous sexual deviant, don't worry. I'm actually a pretty conservative person. Plus I'm studying to be an engineer; I have no social life.

The problem for me is that it sounds like justifying abuse.

Although could you link me to some studies that support this? I like to keep my research as unbiased as possible and all my sources point in the other direction.

[2013wearestillhere]

@counterclockwise345 "So where does intersexism fit into your argument?"

My premise is that transgender male youths are victims of child abuse.Mental,physical &/or sexual.

My premise: Male youths are not born that way but are conditioned to be gay and/or transgender.

My premise:The male youth in the above video is not a girl in a male body,but is mentally disturbed abuse victim who has been turned gay & has gender identity issues as a result.His parents should be questioned exhaustively.

[counterclockwise345]

@2013wearestillhere So where does intersexism fit into your argument?

[2013wearestillhere]

heterosexuality is not born invincible,it has to be nurtured and can be easily undermined.

this is not gender neutral,it is gender neutering...this kind of social engineering should be rejected,and confused children are often abused children,& probable child abuse cases should be formally investigated,starting with the parents of a disturbed child.

sure,we could pretend nothing's wrong but we would have to abandon all common sense,along with our responsibiltiy to intervene when called for.