Bathroom Incidents

So, there has been an incident in the Charlotte-Mecklenberg School District.

A trans boy who is a student at Olympic High School had to use the restroom. The school district has plans for a designated facility, but it is not ready yet, so the trans students used the boy's restroom. As the student pulled his pants down to use the toilet, a cisgender student walked in on him.

That student saw the image and immediately walked out.

When the cisgender student's parents heard about what had happened, they emailed the school district and expressed their concerns.

It’s not a case of a transgender student assaulting a cisgender student, or a cisgender student claiming to be transgender in order to spy on other kids.

In fact, it’s a simple accidental incident that most of us have experienced at one point or another, and the “victim” — to the extent that there can be a victim of an accident on this level — was actually the transgender kid. What was he the victim of? An accidental walking-in-on.

--Steph Bazzle, InQuisitr.com

A transgender boy entered the bathromm to use the toilet. Another boy opened the door, saw the other boy was already there and so closed the door and left.

Parents are reportedly contacting GOP Representative Craig Horn to ask how such future incidents can be prevented.

He says he thinks that government time and energy could be put to better use than worrying about who is using which bathroom stall.

--Bazzle

It should be noted, however, that Horn voted in favor of HB2, which would have forced the trans boy into the girl's bathroom instead.

Okay, now, this is the big incident that people are up in arms about: a kid was in a bathroom, and another kid accidently walked in on him. If neither of the kids in the incident was transgender, nobody would have even heard of this. As it stands, the person who was walked in on, the transgender boy, isn’t even the one complaining, and he’s the closest thing to a victim in this.

Instead, it seems, parents who are afraid that somehow this is proof that something might happen bad to their cisgender kids are panicking.

At most, this might be a case for better bathroom locks. It’s not clear exactly whether the lock in this case was flawed or a stall door was left open. However, one thing it clearly is not is evidence that transgender bathroom access somehow endangers cisgender kids.

--Bazzle

Meanwhile in Connecticut Aimee Toms, a 22-year-old Naugatuck woman was harassed in a Danbury Walmart bathroom by someone who mistakenly though she was transgender.

Aimee Toms was washing her hands in the women’s bathroom at the store when a woman who though she was a man because of her pixie haircut began yelling at her, the report said.

Toms rocks a pixie cut and a baseball cap because she donates hair to an organization that makes wigs for kids undergoing chemo.

You are not supposed to be here, you need to leave." The woman then flipped her off and said, "You're disgusting."

Aimee's rant is here

I think this is all just a response. No one was telling these people to be scared of transgender people before. No one was telling them that they should be throwing people out of bathrooms. As if it wasn’t scary enough for transgender people to use the bathroom before.

I’ve had people call me all sorts of names for having short hair. I’ve had people call me a boy, I’ve had people call me a dyke, I’ve had people call me gay. I’m grateful that that woman only called me disgusting and didn’t physically attack me … I was a victim of transphobia today as a cisgender female because my hair is short.

--Toms

People hate what they don’t understand and they hate what they don’t know. And it creates a cycle of disgusting bigotry that reflects back on our nation and makes us look ridiculous.

--Toms

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GreyWolf's picture

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Steven D's picture

we deserve to look ridiculous.

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"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott

earthling1's picture

We are regressing. Soon homo americus will join the Neanderthal branch .

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

Anything about the potty is endlessly fascinating.

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Euterpe2

riverlover's picture

to pee off the autoroute in a toilet hole in the ground with suggestive footprints. For Americans, that's about as degrading as it could get.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

I live over the pond and I do shake my head, the British government even gives travel warnings to whom it may concern.

I always considered that education would overcome stupid religious prejudices, in Europe it appears to be so but I struggle to fathom why religion isn't in decline stateside, the only thought is perhaps I underestimate poverty levels but then are the poor the religious community?

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Churches can serve as a kind of substitute. They offer day care, for example.

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Euterpe2

there are no doors on the cubicles in the girls' bathrooms.

Don't know why; perhaps this was supposed to discourage smoking or other misbehavior. There was one such school in DC were I had a night class. As an adult woman, I found this absence of common privacy so disconcerting that I elected to forego the rest room, uncomfortably. And reflected how disrespectful it seemed towards the young people.

Don't know if this lack of privacy is usual elsewhere, or a factor in the current moral panic; apparently not in the case you describe, but it jogged the memory.

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Euterpe2

You walked to and from your locker naked as a jay bird. Some bullies did stuff so disgusting I won't repeat it.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

I would never run home and tell my parents. But I would tell all the other guys.
Anything bathroom or remotely sexual was never spoken of to parents.

This kid was a big momma's boy.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

i.e., scene of the non-discrimination ordinance that got the NC legislature all hot and bothered to begin with, I think we have to figure that the kid was primed with media and/or parental alarmism to take such an incident as a serious matter deserving of public attention.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Labour Party

"I hope that LGBT people in Britain will join me in voting to remain in the EU so that we can continue to push for equal rights across Europe.

"It was the EU that outlawed discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation back in 2000, and the European Court of Justice which told countries that offer civil unions that they must give gay people all the same rights as married couples.
Equality for LGBT people is explicitly recognised in the EU Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, meaning that all member states must offer a basic level of protection to gay and trans people.

"The EU is a progressive force in today’s world and a real ally to equality. So I hope that LGBT people will agree, that while we’re proud to be out, we’re better off in."

To mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, Nia Griffith MP has written about our need to show solidarity to LGBT people across Europe."

Thought a small taste of European perspectives to lighten for you.

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