Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Deciding Where To Send Transgender People To Use the Restroom

BRUNCE JENNER won the decathlon in the 1976 Olympics, which to those of us of a certain age seems like yesterday. Queen Elizabeth I, who then must've been about fifty, comes floating across the pond to Montreal in a hugely lavish royal yacht, taking her sweet time. She finally arrived, and the games went on. Then Jenner went on to victory, to the cover of the Wheaties box, a career in film, the Kardashian connection, and, last but not least, the transgender thing, which, tragically, might be what he/she is ultimately remembered for. Anyone with a flat screen television, which includes almost all Americans, knows exactly what Caitlyn nee Bruce Jenner looks like these days, and we'll all have to agree, she looks like a woman. And not only that, but if you ask her, she'll tell you - she's a woman now. The scientific community would likely agree. Amazing to think that, according to Caitlyn herself, she spent nearly all her life knowing deep inside that her true gender was female, regardless of the very athletic male body she was trapped inside. Even while winning all that glory, as a man, in the Olympics - she knew. It took her a long time to "come out", understandably, during which her life must have included a great deal of frustration. Pretty brave person. And now, in North Carolina, Caitlyn must use the men's public restroom, Caitlyn and all other transgender women who used to be men. Caitlyn, or anybody else who thinks about it a little bit, can easily unnderstand that she very much feels the need to use the women's room, very definitely understands that its the right thing to do, but try telling that to our Christian conservative friends. If only those conservative Christians would give it some thought, they'd realize that they, too, really want Caitlyn using the little girl's room, not the little boy's. She'll leave the girls alone, promise. With the men, who knows? Don't worry, men are not going to start showing up in droves demanding to use the ladies restroom, just the one's who are now women. And maybe many women don't want a tansgender female in their restroom; but rest assured that men want her in their johns even less. And, like the rest of us, she's gotta go somewhere, right?

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