No brainer of the day

I saw a story on TV about a kid in Florida (I think) who is going through a gender identity crisis. He's male; there's no question of that. His classmates have known him as a guy for a long time, but now, while dealing with his crisis, he's dressing as a girl.

Okay, no big deal. (Easy for me to say, since he's not my kid.) But now this "conflicted" guy wants to use the girl's bathroom at school. He's got a lawyer, national press, and support from some of his fellow students and their parents. And, NATURALLY, he's lacking support from a whole lot of students.

Duh! What's going on in these people's heads? I can dress like a professional football player or a nun, but that doesn't MAKE me a jock or a nun. This guy might have an identity crisis, but he's still a guy, no matter what clothes he wears. What kind of goober thinks clothing has ANY bearing on whether to use the girls' bathroom or the boys'? It's what's UNDERNEATH the clothes that makes the difference, and anyone who can't see that is just plain wrong.

Call me narrow-minded -- you won't be the first -- but sharing my bathroom at home with my husband and, for the years he was here, the kiddo was enough to last a lifetime. (Yeah, okay, I've used a men's room on a few occasions, but I was all by myself, and it was an emergency.) When I go to the women's room, I want to know everyone else in there is a woman. That's just kind of like a basic right in my world. The day this guy starts taking hormones and gets his thing whacked off, he can go into any ladies' room around.

But until then, as the old saying goes, clothing doesn't make the man -- er, woman. Rachel6:37 PM