I read an article today about Coy, a 6 year old that has male genitalia but identifies with the female gender. Coy is technically a boy, but has always worn dresses, and makeup, and played with dolls, and hung out with girls, and has always called himself a girl. I will not go into the debate of whether a person decides to be transgender or not, I don't think that is the important question here. Coy goes to a Colorado elementary school and the school said that he either had to go to the boys bathroom or to the staff bathroom, but he could not go to the girls bathroom. The parents of the student have gone to the social media machine and have started online petitions to get the school to treat Coy like another other child. This is an impossible situation.
The school is going to be faced with angry parents who are upset when a boy who dresses like a girl uses the girls bathroom with their little girls. Or on the other hand they will be faced (which they are currently) with angry members of the LGBT community who say that they are repressing the child's development and creating situations where Coy will be ridiculed. I think both of these responses are true, so what do we do? Honestly, we have to look at with the longterm situation in mind. What solution is more viable for a school that has transgender kids, homosexual kids, cross dressing kids, and bi-sexual kids?
My immediate reaction was unisex bathrooms. Many cultures use them, even though there have been many conversations about an increase in sexual behavior in the bathrooms when both boys and girls are in there at the same time. But what other solution is there? Everyone can choose which bathroom they use? That's almost the same as unisex. Bathrooms are used specifically by genitalia of the same kind? That is impossible to regulate, and it would upset members of the LGBT community to no end. No, I don't think those will work in the end, they may be good bandaids, but they are not good cures to our sickness of accommodating everyone all the time. Will conservatives be upset that girls and boys are using bathrooms together? Yes, of course. But when are conservatives not upset? smh.
The school is going to be faced with angry parents who are upset when a boy who dresses like a girl uses the girls bathroom with their little girls. Or on the other hand they will be faced (which they are currently) with angry members of the LGBT community who say that they are repressing the child's development and creating situations where Coy will be ridiculed. I think both of these responses are true, so what do we do? Honestly, we have to look at with the longterm situation in mind. What solution is more viable for a school that has transgender kids, homosexual kids, cross dressing kids, and bi-sexual kids?
My immediate reaction was unisex bathrooms. Many cultures use them, even though there have been many conversations about an increase in sexual behavior in the bathrooms when both boys and girls are in there at the same time. But what other solution is there? Everyone can choose which bathroom they use? That's almost the same as unisex. Bathrooms are used specifically by genitalia of the same kind? That is impossible to regulate, and it would upset members of the LGBT community to no end. No, I don't think those will work in the end, they may be good bandaids, but they are not good cures to our sickness of accommodating everyone all the time. Will conservatives be upset that girls and boys are using bathrooms together? Yes, of course. But when are conservatives not upset? smh.