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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.