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[MI6agent]

Transgender toilet use: US schools 'must respect gender identity'
The Obama administration has told schools to let transgender pupils use toilets matching their gender identity.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch said schools that don't comply may face lawsuits or lose federal aid if they do not comply.
One senior Republican politician has condemned the move as the "beginning of the end" of the current school system.
In a separate move, the president also strengthened protections for LGBT people receiving health care.

The federal government is fighting the state of North Carolina in court over a law requiring people to use toilets according to their gender at birth.
However the Obama administration education and justice departments say public schools must respect transgender pupils' gender identity even if their education records or identity documents indicate a different sex.

"There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex," Ms Lynch said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36286111

[Phil_K]

Sorry, I was looking for Dave's ESL Cafe. I think I took a wrong turn at the Guardian website.

[scot47]

Gender Politics is taking over. Forget little concerns like work, salaries, sick leave, places to head to in search of employment.

We should spend our lives fretting about what toilet to visit when we are in Arkansas.

[BadBeagleBad]

[steki47]

Or we could address the mental health issues rather than enabling them. Or disrupting the whole nation and demonizing all opposition.

[wangdaning]

[adventious]

Obama's position on this issue is why I voted for him two terms ago. And the recent pardons for non-violent offenders was another. He couldn't close Cuba and stepped up the strain of unilateral decisions in foreign policy, but on many issues, I've seen an uptick in progress where there has been none for too long: HAD I KNOWN how slowly American culture would adopt rational attitudes toward gender issues, or an issue as benign as "pot", the ardor of my teenage rebellion would have been a hundred times...The "war" on drugs is especially vile...a very real venom of Nixon's still killing the weakest.

Scot? Gender issues haven't "taken over", for crying-out-loud...
I'm annoyed by misdirection as well...but
What scarcity of resource can you cite to support that framing?
Never mind I asked.

The jack assess in the room of these elephantine issues is just more clown show: A "party" claiming society thrives with less government scrutiny while simultaneously calling for regulation in a crapper to "protect" children.

[johnslat]

Dear wangdaning,

"More GOP Lawmakers Arrested For Sexual Misconduct In Bathrooms Than Trans People"

It seems you're worried about the wrong people regarding your child's safety in public rest rooms.

"It is Republican lawmakers, and not transgender people, who are the real danger in public bathrooms.

Dead State, Gay Star News, and Friendly Atheist are all reporting that Republican politicians are more of a menace in public bathrooms than transgender people.

The reports are based on an earlier report issued by Dan Avery at News Now Next debunking the myth that transgender people using public bathrooms pose some sort of threat.

The multiple reports indicate that no transgender individual has ever been arrested for sexual misconduct in a public bathroom, while at least three Republican lawmakers have been arrested for sexual misconduct in a public bathroom.

Former U.S. Senator Larry Craig, Florida state Representative Bob Allen, and Mississippi Congressman Jon Hinson were all Republican lawmakers, and were all arrested for sexual misconduct in a public bathroom.

As for the big myth that transgender people using public bathrooms pose some sort of threat, a new report issued by Media Matters cites experts from twelve states – including law enforcement officials, state human rights workers, and sexual assault victims advocates – who debunk the myth that transgender non-discrimination laws have any relation to incidents of sexual assault or harassment in public restrooms.

Yet despite the evidence, Republican lawmakers, encouraged by conservative Christians, continue to try and harass and intimidate the transgender community with mean-spirited and hopelessly misguided bathroom laws.

Currently a new North Carolina law that unfairly bans transgender people from accessing public facilities like bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity is receiving a great deal of negative attention as celebrities as diverse as Charles Barkley and Bruce Springsteen have come out to denounce the draconian new law.

Meanwhile, in Kansas lawmakers are considering new legislation that would pay students a $2500 bounty for reporting on transgender classmates using the “wrong” bathroom.

Bottom line: If you’re concerned about public bathroom safety, it is Republican politicians, and not transgender people, that are most likely to be engaged in sexual misconduct. It is a myth that transgender people pose a danger in public bathrooms, a myth promoted by right-wing conservative Christians who hate what they don’t understand."

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/04/more-gop-lawmakers-arrested-for-sexual-misconduct-in-bathrooms-than-trans-people/

Regards,
John

[BadBeagleBad]