bobmoore wrote:This isn't going to be popular here, but I fully suport gender specific bathrooms. Despite what many uninformed people want to believe, there are two, and only two, genders. Chromosome abnomalities do not constitute additional genders. Attempting to cater to every abberation, real or imagined, is the death of reason.
BTW, before the flames begin I'll mention that I hold multiple graduate degrees in reproductive physiology.
There are two chromosomal sexes. Simple sex genetics do not consistently influence gender identity or sexual preference in any predictable way. To state that gender and sex are absolute and inseparable is simply incorrect. But it's clear that science has little to do with the inability or unwillingness of social conservatives to fathom is that it's simpler and more successful to reconcile the body, or at least the lifestyle, to suit the mind than vice versa. You cannot make someone identify as a gender which they KNOW is incompatible with the person he/she is.
Even more absurd is the Huckabee hypothesis contending that anyone would risk the peril of being assaulted or murdered for declaring himself/herself transgendered simply in order to steal a glimpse of what is available on ten thousand websites. That's apparently an argument aimed at people so old, so rural, and so illiterate, that they have yet to touch a computer.
In this particular case, the legislature could have simply acted to secure consistent genitalia in places where it would actually be exposed, such as in school locker rooms. Factually, however, there is likely to be considerably more peeping by unidentified gays and lesbians in such situations where genitalia may be exposed by necessity, than by someone openly transgendered seeking to relieve themselves in the restroom that complies with his/her identity. Do the legislators really think there is a teen out there that has never seen a depiction of the genitalia of the opposite sex? If there is such a teen, then that only points up the state's failure to provide competent sex education.
It is incomprehensible that these social conservative legislators could be oblivious to the fact that unidentifed gays and lesbians are using public lockerrooms and restrooms without penalty under this law, yet these same old-white-men crap bricks over the nonexistent chance that a person understanding himself/herself to be, gender-wise, the opposite of his/her chromosomal/genital sex could even have an opportunity to peep at anyone's genitals in a modern public restroom. It's just a ludicrous assertion.
If legislators had restrained themselves to acting only on public and school locker rooms, this would be a non-issue. But you need only look at all the other ******** they loaded in that law, and you can see that the TG part of it is just a smokescreen. And it's also apparent that the entire bill was written by one entity: Art Pope, et.al.
At least this has shed light on the abject hypocrisy of a party that claims to champion small government and local control but then races to squash both if it deviates from their pseudomoral rhetoric, that nonsense being the opiate of their masses. What's wrong with letting Charlotte voters, through those they have elected, decide what's right and wrong for their own community, and then let the hicks from Podunk, NC, do the same for theirs?
The other good thing is that it will rid us of a terribly ineffectual governor, since he has now lost the support of the business community. Even Art Pope doesn't have enough money to keep Pat McCoalAsh in office now. In fact, given the national GOPs offering of a choice between an oligarch and a theocrat, I'm hoping for a clean sweep to throw the bums out!
Also, Bob, with all due respect for your credentials, those degrees in repro phys apparently didn't educate you in the psychology of gender. Your views are surprisingly unenlightened for a professional. My own graduate degree is not in repro phys, but it seems I may be rather more enlightened on the issue, if only because it affects members of my own family. That fact has prompted much self-education and self-reflection. Those have effected in me a POV that is both informed and compassionate, I believe. But I won't claim expertise I do not possess.
I don't think separate bathrooms are really needed for every day usage. Just one room with private stalls would work for me and many others, Open wash up area and many stalls with lockable doors is all that is needed.
