A district judge in Wisconsin has sided with an 11-year-old trans girl over her use of the girls’ toilets and temporarily blocked school officials from preventing her access.

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[–] 253 points 3 years ago (247 children)

Good! Republicans need to get over their obsession with trans children's genitals.

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    [–] 144 points 3 years ago (31 children)

    Good lord they are only 11 years old. Who cares what bathroom they use.

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  • [–] 103 points 3 years ago* (27 children)

    gender neutral bathrooms are the answer here.

    most public places have them now, don't get why you can't have one in a school.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 years ago (22 children)

    In places with large crowds, gender neutral bathrooms (assuming you also mean single-use) don't really work. It causes massive lines.

    Not to mention, there's no need. It's a bathroom. Why does anyone care who they pee or poop next to? It seems so silly and arbitrary to me. Just get in, do your thing, wash your hands, and get out. haha

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  • [–] 71 points 3 years ago* (19 children)

    We can have gender neutral bathrooms where we have a shared hand-washing area, and individual stalls. Heck, you can even have cameras pointed towards the sink area if people are so afraid of getting harassed in the bathroom. Gender should not matter when you have individual stalls.

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  • [–] 62 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    Right? I've been using public restrooms for a long time and I don't recall ever seeing anyone's naughty bits.

    ..and for me the most ridiculous part of this discussion is that bathrooms have never been a secure space. If some creep wanted to go into a bathroom to harass people, there is literally nothing stopping them. It's not like bathrooms have guarded entrances and now people have a sneaky way to get into a bathroom by pretending to be transgender or something insane like that.

    It's literally a manufactured issue to get the GOP electorate terrified, as everything they do is designed to do.

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    [–] 73 points 3 years ago (23 children)

    I've never understood why I should care where someone else goes to the bathroom anyways.

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    [–] 67 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Imagine holding in a shit for months as a court determines where you can poop.

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    [–] 45 points 3 years ago (44 children)

    While this is welcome news, it's also depressing that we live in a timeline stupid enough that bathroom panics are enough of a thing that there are laws on the books like this to be struck down by judges (and of course, the fact that other judges are likely to reverse this ruling).

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