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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Yeah, you're missing the point entirely.
Your daughter can be labelled as female
You can be referred to as her father.
Anyone can be labelled as whatever they want to be.
This is not free range for boys to enter the girls washroom, this is for a transgender person who if they choose to be labelled as female, may use the bathroom catered to that gender. This isn't so a boy can roll into the girls washroom and say "I feel like a girl today! Lol!"
This is also not about gay men using the men's washroom. This has little to do with sexuality and everything to do with gender. Completely different subjects.
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I'd love to be missing the point entirely, but that perspective is somewhat simplistic, and I don't think it's a fair comment. So how are you going to stop someone from walking into the girls washroom and saying I feel like a girl today? And how uncomfortable are you going to make young girls (or possibly boys in the reverse situation) when boys elect to use their change room.
This seems to be a big initiative to cater to a group that is estimated to account for 0.3% of the population from what I can find. Simpler ways, such as offering a special washroom for a transgendered kid or anyone else to use seems easier than offering as special washroom for a kid that is offended by a differently sexed kid in their washroom and asking them to use it.
Yes, I fully expect this to get abused at a small rate at least, and make a lot of people uncomfortable.