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FOXNews.com - Maine Commission Moves to Ban Gender Specific Bathrooms, Sports Teams in Schools
The little girls' room won't be just for little girls anymore, if the Maine Human Rights Commission has its way.
The commission is taking heat over a controversial proposal to ban schools from enforcing gender divisions in sports teams, school organizations, bathrooms and locker rooms. It says forcing a student into a particular room or group because of his or her biological gender amounts to discrimination.
Fox News reports it so you will interpret it wrong.
Not surprised.
But I guess the audience doesn't understand the difference between trans-gender, hetrosexual and homosexual, since thats the whole argument against by the Rev Celeste.
“They don’t care what we have to say,” Celeste said. “They don’t care about most of the kids. All they’re interested in doing is using anything as a guise to introduce the children of Maine to the homosexual lifestyle.”.
Actually, I think that most men's women's bathrooms ARE unequal. potty parity Laws have been passed to give women's rooms more square footage and more stalls then men's rooms. The ration is at a minimum of 1.1 to 1 and as high as 4 to 1 in places like movie theaters. (Urinals are even counted as a full toilet, despited being useful only for urination) This despite the fact that men with enlarged prostates tend to urinate slower and take longer than women (we've all seen the commercials).
I'm still in favor of seperate bathrooms but I think there should be a law making sure that the square footage for men's and women's rooms do not vary by more than 10% and that the number of stalls in each is equal.
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The girls lavs are all seperate stalls, there was no "looking on".
Hopefully they will remove urinals if they insist on going down this path.
In some places in Japan they have unisex restrooms. The stalls have rubber flaps to cover the space between the door and the wall and the walls go down to only about an inch off the floor. They haev to do that because you don't sit on traditional Japanese toilets; they are in the ground and you squat over them.
Actually, I think that most men's women's bathrooms ARE unequal. potty parity Laws have been passed to give women's rooms more square footage and more stalls then men's rooms. The ration is at a minimum of 1.1 to 1 and as high as 4 to 1 in places like movie theaters. (Urinals are even counted as a full toilet, despited being useful only for urination) This despite the fact that men with enlarged prostates tend to urinate slower and take longer than women (we've all seen the commercials).
I'm still in favor of seperate bathrooms but I think there should be a law making sure that the square footage for men's and women's rooms do not vary by more than 10% and that the number of stalls in each is equal.
Hopefully they will remove urinals if they insist on going down this path.
In some places in Japan they have unisex restrooms. The stalls have rubber flaps to cover the space between the door and the wall and the walls go down to only about an inch off the floor. They haev to do that because you don't sit on traditional Japanese toilets; they are in the ground and you squat over them.
Japan's not the only place that has those floor mounted toilets. Saw them in parts of Italy, Ukraine, and Saudi Arabia as well.
I wonder why they wouldn't have had "corrective procedures" done when she was a baby, seems as though there would have been no transition period? Anyhow, I am very ignorant on this subject, don't know much of the in's and out's as far as timelines go...
Perhaps it was the dr's recommendations to wait? I, too, am not well informed on this subject, but I do think most docs know what they're doing in these situations.
As America marches towards The Big Cliff, at least we can say we all had an equally enjoyable fall.
I have no problem with gender neutral bathrooms for adults. They're all over a good deal of the rest of the world. I think it could be an issue for minors though. Keep gendered bathrooms through high school, then after that, who cares?
Here is something a bit more balanced that I found. And just so you know, there have been similar policies in place in two states for the last 3 years and the world didn't end. Athletic Business - In the News
If all of the stalls are fully enclosed, what's the big deal?
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