What is your opinion on the transgender idea for transgender kids and nontransgender--our kids?

Personally I dont like it. A kid shouldn't even be thinking about that. I'm thirteen now but when I was younger I said I wanted to be a boy but I didn't do it. Just imagine how normal kids would treat me. I bet they would tease and feel pretty weird about that. I know I would.

I am a supporter of trans* rights, so I do believe that transgender children should be able to choose the bathroom they use based on their gender identity.

However, I think that all of the children should have seen a gender therapist and been diagnosed with gender dysphoria before entering a bathroom opposite of their birth sex (for "proof" of being transgender), as this would help prevent people who are just wanting to use the new bathroom law as an immature and foolish excuse to go into the bathroom of the other gender.

By the way, the term "nontransgender" is incorrect. The right word would be 'cisgender'. Cisgender means that your gender identity matches the biological sex you were assigned at birth.

While I appreciate the intent of the idea, it opens itself up to abuse.

What if someone pretends to be transgender, enters the restroom and then attacks others who are transgender or worse, males go into the female restroom and then do them harm.

Seems like a big lawsuit to me.

I may be wrong but I do think you have had a confusion of terminology in this question, a transgender girl is some born male who becomes female and transgender boy is some born female who becomes male.

Anyway, I am transsexual myself but taking this out of the equation separate restrooms are intended as a safe space for either gender, also in older individuals it is a great way to stamp out inappropriate behaviour between hetrosexuals in the restrooms.

Now putting into account these are safe spaces for either gender my personal opinion is a trans individual should only be allowed to use the facilities appropriate for his or her identified gender only if he or she is presenting in that role. For example I work in the security industry and largely work at football clubs, the guidelines we are given is that if someone is presenting as female, they use the female facilities (unless of course it were a drag night where you'd use your common sense) and if some presents as male they use the male facilities.

Now going back to the safe space issue, for a trans woman using the female facilities can be a relatively safe space for them, especially if they pass well as female and seen as you are referring to the school environment, especially if you start talking pre-adolescents there is going to be no issues with inappropriate behaviour here and also in most cases before secondary male characteristics have kicked in (which if the child has transitioned at this age puberty will be stopped usually with hormone blockers) the child will have no issue at passing and should all going well provide little discomfort for others using those facilities. Using the male facilities for this child could prove rather dangerous though and even more so in later life.

For trans men, well using the female facilities will probably become out of the question if they are living full-time in male gender role however using male facilities can prove equally daunting to them as well and quite a few trans men avoid using public toilet facilities from what I have heard, due to the whole safe space issue. Not so much an issue in pre-adolescent children but adolescent and post-adolescent males may just see a trans man as some confused lesbian or something and try and have their way with him in the male facilities where few people are looking. Proving rather dangerous, this could be a similar danger to trans women if expected to use the male facilities.

As I mentioned this is a question of maintaining a safe space so my opinion on this matter when it comes to transsexuals using the facilities of the gender they identify as, I believe they must meet these 3 conditions:

1. Be under the care of a gender therapist

2. Be diagnosed with Gender Identity Dysphoria

3. Be presenting as the appropriate gender to use those facilities.

If a trans person does NOT meet all THREE of these conditions, I believe they should either use the facilities of their birth gender or if unsafe to do so, unisex facilities where applicable or disabled facilities until they can meet all 3 of these conditions.

Right now I only meet two of these conditions. Under the care of a gender therapist and I have the diagnosis. However I do not yet present as female so I either use male facilities or I use the disabled toilets which my work place has actually given me a key for such facilities. And considering I work at a football ground, I think even after I have transitioned I will still use the disabled facilities at work. No way am I facing drunk football fans in the women's toilets, lol.

My opinion on the matter. I think in the interest in maintaining a safe space trans people must meet all 3 of those conditions I listed before they use the facilities of their identified gender, otherwise anyone could walk into the toilets of either gender and just claim "It's okay, I'm a transsexual" which would defeat the purpose of maintaining a safe space.

Unisex bathrooms. If they can do it in ally mc beal they can do it in school right?

I'm guessing that will only last until a 12 year old girl gets raped or molested by a trans G. Then all hell will break loose and law suits will be filed...

I think in Elementary School there should be teaching of the basics not sexuality.

In Middle School there should be Resources available IF the parents aren't there for the child.

In High School the basic human is formed and from then on it's a matter of guiding and helping not forming any attitude.

So, a boy can go in the bathroom with your daughter just because he's mentally ill and can't see that he's a boy? What's next? Will a pedophile be allowed to Jack off in front of your kids because he's too sick to recognise that he's not their age?

What if I feel masculine one day and feminine the next ?

Or maybe I just want to take a really stinky dump in the girls restroom ?

Eventually these adorable kids will grow up and be full blown males. I prefer not to share a washroom or female facilities, with other males, regardless how they dress.