LGTB Are More Likely to be Attacked in School Restrooms Than Vice Versa
Gotta love the way that the GOP has rushed to insert Potty Safety into their platform now that abortion is off the table until a Zika vaccine becomes available, since no woman--even a GOP woman---- wants to be forced to give birth to a baby with serious deformity. But think for a moment (we're Democrats, so we are allowed to think). Who is the real victim of public school bathroom violence? The boys who identify as straight or those who identify as gay? When is the last time a homosexual high school kid assaulted a heterosexual classmate in a toilet stall? How many times have we heard of a gang of jocks beating up someone they consider "effeminate"?
Back when I went to an inner city public high school, I would hear terrible stories about the boy's bathrooms. Being a girl, I never felt threatened in the girl's restrooms. Girls mainly fought within their own groups over boys, grudges etc. However, the boy's restrooms were notorious for the bullying. I knew boys who learned to "hold it in" all day so that they would not have to venture into the war zone. And it was not transsexuals that they feared. It was violent boys trying to assert their masculinity.
Imagine yourself as a teenaged girl. There is a transsexual in the next stall. Are you frightened? Hell, no. You are more likely to compliment each other's clothes when you step out to wash your hands at the sink.
Now, imagine yourself as a teenaged boy. You are in the restroom when a transgendered student wearing a dress comes in to the bathroom she is required to use because she has a penis. Now, imagine that three or four of the school toughs walk in. The toughs take one look at their transgender schoolmate and start the bullying. You have to decide if you will 1) join in the bullying to prove that you are no one's bitch 2) stand up for your transgender classmate which will get you a beating, too or 3) pretend you are late for class so that you do not have to get involved.
I read that a Senator is going to give parents the right to sue. I hope that means that when their transgender child gets the crap beaten out of her in the boy's restroom they will be able to take their local school district to the bank. Maybe then our schools will act to keep our kids--all our kids---safe.
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