Who started this firestorm argument over trangender bathroom crap? We had non of this when i was young ,now everybody wants to be transgender ? What the hell!

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Ancient Hippy Profile
Ancient Hippy answered

When you were young??? Hell, we didn't have any of this crap a year ago.

Ancient One Profile
Ancient One answered

Homosexuality, (including transgender), religion, and politics are subjects I personally avoid discussing. They can and often do drive me to extreme. Having been on this earth for many cycles I have seen the wheels turn and the circles completed with each generation. Each generation seems to have something new to shock and disgust the previous one. What I am most concerned about is what will be next.

Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

It has a long history. Quan Yin, the Chinese goddess of mercy started life as a male but had a sex change along the way.

I can remember the fuss when the first modern person had realignment surgery. He was a former American GI, George Jorgenson, who became Christine. That was in 1951. I was only 14 at the time but even I was aware of the furore -- and the funny comments -- that were current at the time. I didn't have the knowledge to understand it;  there was no sex education in those days and my parents never discussed ANYTHING with me, let alone sex. So I was left feeling mystified.

The numbers have snowballed in recent years. The GSM4 listed it as a "gender identity disorder" but it's now politically correct to say that such people were born into the wrong bodies.

Anyway, here's a story about Jorgenson and here are pics of George and Christine.


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otis campbell
otis campbell commented
Ask any psychiatrist they will tell u this is mental illness crap. I thought i was screwed up with bi polar but this is a joke
Call me Z
Call me Z commented
In parts of our wondrous Bible belt, Didge, it still is.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
This I know, Zee. If they were allowed to control our parliaments, ae'd br mired in the past as much as the Islamic.countries.
Chewed Bubblegum Profile

To be completely honest,  I'd feel uncomfortable if a transgender woman walked into the women's bathroom with me in it.

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Barb Cala answered

About 20 years ago, when I was working for a major corporation, there was a transgender woman working there.  It really was never a huge deal for anyone which bathroom she used .. We all had so many other things on our minds at work to even notice who else was in the bathroom.  The internet and other media has just jumped on this "bandwagon" since Caitlyn Jenner made her transformation.  Now more transgender people feel more comfortable telling their stories and of course, it has created controversies.

Cookie Roma Profile
Cookie Roma answered

Just my personal concern.  I think the actual "transgender" population is actually tiny.  In fact I believe there are many, many, more pranksters, and worse, peeves and sickos out there then there are transgender people.  So now they want anyone who claims that they identify with the opposite gender can go into the bathroom (locker room, showers) of that gender.  Shall we just make it inviting for all the perves in the world to assault people?  Let me be clear:  I am not saying "transgender" people are perves. The perves of the world will easily take advantage of this attempt to help a very small group of people. 

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Rooster Cogburn , Rooster Cogburn, answered

The times are changing Otis ! Just like your question about the General Lee car. When that show was on, no one said a word about the flag on the top but now it's all racist. Being that I'm old now, this transgender thing just blows me away ! Not quite sure what to say or think about it. All these new trends are in the Twilight Zone for me. Frankly, I don't understand the why of most of it but it has existed for many years and just now they want everyone to know ! Don't really have a good answer for you Otis. Sorry.

Call me Z Profile
Call me Z answered

I dont think this is as big a deal to most folks as the idiotic sensationalist media would have you believe. Certainly this tiny, odd minority has been managing to go to the bathroom somewhere up til now without all this hubbub. That's right, odd minority, sue me. There have been unisex bathrooms in Europe for a long time; as long as there is a stall, there should be adequate privacy to perform one's vital functions. I suggest what we have here is a sample of the more insidious menace of the creeping tyranny the gov't continues to insinuate (or legislate) into our everyday lives. 

Where I would have an issue is a school shower room; I hold the view that their use should be governed by which gender you physically are, not what one merely chooses to be, for obvious reasons. If this rule is unsuitable to the odd minority, then shower at home. 

Kioyre S. Profile
Kioyre S. answered

Much like what many people are saying, since times are changing, people are coming out as transgender more often now than before. They see the opportunity, and they take it. Simple. The community most likely hasn't changed much, for that matter. As for bathrooms, I personally feel that one can enter the bathroom that corresponds with your gender identity, which is not always the sex you were assigned with at birth. I wouldn't care to see a transgender woman in the bathroom; she's there to use the bathroom just like I am! It's not my problem lol. Maybe we've all crossed paths with a trans person in a public bathroom and we haven't realised! Some people believe that trans people could cause "problems" in the bathrooms, but I'm almost certain they are the most least probable suspects in my honest opinion.

Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

I also remember George/ Christine Jorgenson.

When he became a she, the change was nowhere as aesthetically pleasing as Bruce to Kaitlyn.  (Advances in technology and endocrinology, I assume.)

Certainly no man would undergo such a transformation just to be to enter the women's restroom unnoticed for an implied nefarious purpose.

Etc.......

But there certainly is an age ranger from (around 10 years old) in which we humans are coming to terms with their sexuality.  (And between the people we frequently refer to as "perverts" and the football player who partially exposed his genitalia in a team photo recently, some of us apparently never come to terms with it.)

Didge also mentioned the Chinese goddess of mercy who started out as a man and then became female.

So obviously, we're not the first group of people to deal with this, but due to the extensive coverage of "everything" in the news media, we're just extremely focused on it at the moment.

I presume the issue will "shake itself out."

I do think it is a worthwhile issue to be aware of and to try---as many are doing---to find a way to handle it appropriately.

In the meantime, parents just have to provide a little more information to their children about the range of human sexuality.

Nothing new there.

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