I started ranting in the wrong place, so I decided I had to start this thread. A year or so back, this was a big deal because our huge population (0.01%) of transgender people were starting to feel unhappy, because they could not use the bathroom of their choice.
Back when this debacle of transgender people in public restrooms reared it's ugly head in California, our local Congressman was on the radio taking questions & making comments.
I called and suggested the cheapest and quickest thing to do is immediately put portable private bathrooms on every campus for anybody that wanted to use them.
He replied that, "We can't fix this through infrastructure!" Like I was some kind of moron.
I told him I knew this because, "I've been involved in the engineering and construction of public buildings for 40 years." but by then he wasn't listening anymore.
The lawyers were trying to find a way to fix something social, but you can't "fix" such things unless you fix the people, and that's not going to happen soon.
But we can simply deal with it, with a few extra bathrooms here and there.
Of course our rep is a lawyer and his way of dealing with problems is by mandamus: the courts fix the problem by telling people what to do.
Being an engineer I knew that sticking your nose into the American legal system is 10 times as expensive as just going out and putting in a few bathrooms. Lawyers could argue forever, and they cost a fortune, whereas bathrooms are built by illegal aliens and they don't cost that much.
Public Schools never have enough bathrooms anyway.
When your only tool is a hammer every problem becomes a nail, and that is how the lawyers of the United States are running this country into the dirt. They turn every problem into a hugely expensive legal proposition because that's what they're trained to do.
I must live in about the least liberal place in California. Any guy that dresses up as a woman and goes in the ladies bathroom here is going to get a Stern Lesson.
What they did around here, at most big stores, was to keep the regular old public men's & women's rooms plus add a "family" bathroom, which allows all "sexes" in any combination together, but the door locks and it's essentially a private room.
If you're a parent with a small child of the opposite sex, you can still take them to the bathroom without invading anyone. If you're queer you can go hide out by yourself and lock the door.
Anybody who's nervous about what might happen in the regular bathrooms can use the private room.
This is what they've also done at many schools. They simply added a private room or rooms. The schools in Clovis however do not allow cross-dressing, and they keep the boys in the boys room and a girls in the girls room whether they're gay or not.
They don't specifically prohibit cross-dressing but they state in the school policy what is acceptable clothing, and those policies essentially do the same thing.
The parents here seem to be pretty good about policing their own children in regard to these things, and to the problem of funny "sexual identities.
Unfortunately this town is growing a lot & these things will change.
Back when this debacle of transgender people in public restrooms reared it's ugly head in California, our local Congressman was on the radio taking questions & making comments.
I called and suggested the cheapest and quickest thing to do is immediately put portable private bathrooms on every campus for anybody that wanted to use them.
He replied that, "We can't fix this through infrastructure!" Like I was some kind of moron.
I told him I knew this because, "I've been involved in the engineering and construction of public buildings for 40 years." but by then he wasn't listening anymore.
The lawyers were trying to find a way to fix something social, but you can't "fix" such things unless you fix the people, and that's not going to happen soon.
But we can simply deal with it, with a few extra bathrooms here and there.
Of course our rep is a lawyer and his way of dealing with problems is by mandamus: the courts fix the problem by telling people what to do.
Being an engineer I knew that sticking your nose into the American legal system is 10 times as expensive as just going out and putting in a few bathrooms. Lawyers could argue forever, and they cost a fortune, whereas bathrooms are built by illegal aliens and they don't cost that much.
Public Schools never have enough bathrooms anyway.
When your only tool is a hammer every problem becomes a nail, and that is how the lawyers of the United States are running this country into the dirt. They turn every problem into a hugely expensive legal proposition because that's what they're trained to do.
I must live in about the least liberal place in California. Any guy that dresses up as a woman and goes in the ladies bathroom here is going to get a Stern Lesson.
What they did around here, at most big stores, was to keep the regular old public men's & women's rooms plus add a "family" bathroom, which allows all "sexes" in any combination together, but the door locks and it's essentially a private room.
If you're a parent with a small child of the opposite sex, you can still take them to the bathroom without invading anyone. If you're queer you can go hide out by yourself and lock the door.
Anybody who's nervous about what might happen in the regular bathrooms can use the private room.
This is what they've also done at many schools. They simply added a private room or rooms. The schools in Clovis however do not allow cross-dressing, and they keep the boys in the boys room and a girls in the girls room whether they're gay or not.
They don't specifically prohibit cross-dressing but they state in the school policy what is acceptable clothing, and those policies essentially do the same thing.
The parents here seem to be pretty good about policing their own children in regard to these things, and to the problem of funny "sexual identities.
Unfortunately this town is growing a lot & these things will change.
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