School tells students who are uncomfortable with their transgender bathroom policy to use the single stall in nurse's office. 150 students do just that and now they're being threatened with disciplinary action.

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[–]wylanderuk 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Honestly? Why do a bunch of fucking fruit loops (and I honestly don't give a flying fuck what side they are on in any conflict) think that "I am protesting" is automatic "I should be allowed to do this without any come back".

Have the courage of your convictions and take the downside. Besides I bet there a few that gave no shits about this and just were avoiding class.

They would have more of valid point about it being unfair if they were not claiming "its a protest", being stuck in a q making them late because they were actually wanting to use that toilet is one thing and they should not be punished for it. Making the choice to stand there as "a protest"? Yup have your protest but accept the negative out come.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is it a protest? It just seems like the natural result of the their decision.

School said anyone who felt uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with a trans person should use the unisex bathroom. And so everyone who felt uncomfortable with it did that. Now the school is complaining about it.

I'd go stand in line for the unisex bathroom in solidarity with the kids getting harassed for doing what the school told them to do. This is sexual harassment essentially. You are telling the kids that you pretty much have to"go feel uncomfortable in the bathroom" or you get marked off your class. That creates a toxic learning environment that benefits nobody.

I don't really give a fuck if some girl who thinks she's a boy comes into the men's room, I'm going to do my business and leave and ignore them. But the reason I don't give a fuck is that I don't feel threatened, I'll go straight to the admin with a sexual harassment complaint the first time they do anything that makes me feel uncomfortable. Because I'm an asshole.

The poor non-assholes of the world who feel a strange and unexplainable desire to be nice to people are then placed in a shit situation where they've got to put up with this shit at the expense of their own mental health or else face disciplinary action. This is retarded obviously. Because the easy solution is simple. Let the trans kid use the unisex bathroom. This is the best way to handle it and to make everyone at the very least able to continue on with the least disruption to the educational environment.

Or just don't identify as trans and keep using the vagina bathroom. Again I don't care what your personal life choices are here frankly until they start to effect the overall social order. Bathrooms are segregated by sex not gender. Unisex bathroom is a fairly smart compromise since it's relatively good at providing a place for people to get their business done with no bullshit if they're too "special" to use their restroom assigned at birth. Or if they're handicapped and they need more space. Are you othering the wheelchair user if you make a special bathroom just for them? It's not supposed to be a social destination.

I understand in highschool kids use the bathroom to smoke have sex and otherwise be little cunts but bone of those are legitamate reasons for why you shouldn't just use the unisex bathroom if you've got a problem with the "sexual binary" or whatever your hangups with biological reality are.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I’m sympathetic to your point.

Civil disobedience only works when the authorities punish the behaviour, society-at-large then sees the injustice of the punishment and pushes the authorities to change. This necessitates those protesting be punished, the authorities failing to punish civil disobedience renders it no longer civil disobedience (a law that is unenforced is no law, a law enforced selectively is unjust). For the civil disobedience to achieve its aim, the reversal of the bathroom mandate in this case, wider society needs to see that what is happening to the children is both ridiculous and unjust, and for that to happen they have to complain about the punishment.

So whilst I think they’re right to publicise and complain about their punishment, they should have entered their protest knowing that they faced it and been a little more stoic about it.