When going can't wait

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sign was taped to one of the Men's bathroom

bathroom at an international sporting venue

“We’re just investigating it like any other case”

"Filmed having sex with boys in school bathroom: The disturbing story of a Florida human trafficking survivor"

The 15-year-old girl had only been a student at South Fort Myers High School in Fort Myers, Fla., for two weeks when she went looking for her new crush in the boys’ bathroom.

She’d spent the prior two years in and out of treatment facilities, her mother told NBC2, learning to cope with the horrors of the sex slave industry into which she had been trafficked at age 13.

So when she tracked down her crush after school last week and he asked her for sex, her mother said through a victims’ advocate, the young teen agreed.

But then word got out, and someone started filming, and over the next hour as many as 25 male students were shown on school surveillance footage passing through the bathroom, the News-Press reported. Multiple boys had sex with the girl, she later told authorities, during a time period after school when students involved in extracurricular activities participate in a study hall. Sixteen students were disciplined by the Lee County school district, the newspaper reported.

Though the sex was described as consensual, according to the involved parties, the girl was not legally old enough to give consent. And because of her troubled background, the teen’s mother and advocates have said this behavior, called promiscuous by many outraged community members, is actually quite common among sex-trafficking survivors.

"Deputies free man locked in New Port Richey Winn Dixie"

ABC Action News:  Robert Bigot says he was picking up a few household items like milk, bread and cereal, but stopped to use the restroom. When he came out, he says everyone was gone. 

"I went to the front and everyone was gone. I was yelling, 'Hello? Hello?' It was two or three minutes after 11 and everybody was already gone," said Bigot. 

He says he didn't hear any announcement about the store closing.

When he called his fiance she called 911. Bigot says the alarm at the store went off when deputies arrived and started "messing with the door." 

He says he handed over his license, deputies took down his info and he went home. 

"78 Representatives Ask Obama Admin How It Will Force Schools to Obey LGBT Bathroom Order"

PJ Media:  On Friday, a group of 78 representatives signed a letter asking the Department of Education (ED) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) how they would enforce the new interpretation of federal law to grant transgender people access to facilities that do not correspond to their biological sex. Denouncing the "suggested guidance" as an overreach on behalf of the federal government, the representatives challenged the authority of these agencies to issue such an order.

In effect, the Obama administration unilaterally altered federal law by redefining "sex" to include gender. As the letter makes clear, "this guidance expands the ED and DOJ's interpretations of sex discrimination to include not only an individual's biological sex, but also an individual's internal sense of gender."

"The Obama administration's edict redefining long-standing definitions in Title IX [of the Education Amendments of 1972] is another clear overreach of the federal government," declared North Carolina Representative Mark Walker, who drafted the letter and led the charge. "The federal government has no business making these decisions, much less, to threaten stripping federal funds from schools for not following their politically motivated orders." (more)

Obama tirelessly tests executive powers

Trying to picture media reaction if Sarah Palin, in 2008, claimed that Obama would put the fed govt in charge of who uses school bathrooms.

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 13, 2016

"President Obama will Issue Transgender Bathroom Decree For Public Schools Students."

In a sweeping victory for LGBT activists concerned about the recent slew of so-called "bathroom bills," the White House on Thursday announced that President Obama would be issuing a transgender bathroom decree which would protect students in public school districts across the country. The decree, which is set to be delivered to schools on Friday, addresses fears some have expressed that banning transgender students from using the bathroom of their identified-gender could result in bullying or violence against those students. In a statement to The New York Times on Thursday evening, Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. reaffirmed the president's beliefs that transgender students were owed protections that the numerous bathroom bills circling state politics otherwise stripped. (read the whole thing)

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I just now peeked to see if it's safe to enter Twitter zone and noticed Schlichter arguing with people about bathrooms. His point repeated through serial tweets is that he is for women having safety and privacy and his opponents are insisting on trading that to satisfy a few deranged men who think they are women.

He makes a very good solid point.

Concurrently right-o-sphere is sharing the video of the 5'9" guy who challenges college students with a hypothetical on this subject. (I just now realized 5'9" is supposed to connote tall, the whole time I was considering him short as everyone else is taller.) 

BTW, those students appear to be walking to class. The guy has a cameraman with him. The interviewer and his cameraman interrupted the students as they're walking somewhere. They're busy. They're so tall and grown up and mature and well mannered I tend to forget they're, what, seventeen or eighteen. We don't see the students who brushed past too busy to stop. We don't see the ones edited for not working out well. I know what this video is supposed to be showing, and it does show airiness, but what I saw were all really sweet kids. They're open and engaging and friendly and smart. Had the interviewer attempted to sway them instead then we might see them agree that the whole thing really is rather silly.

The right is reacting as if all cases are like Bruce Jenner. 

I'm supposed to say some other name.  

But this small percentage of people are not like that spectacular media case. There really is physical sexual ambiguity. There really are men who live as women and always have. And women who live as men. I wonder, what have they been doing all along about public bathrooms? I know! If passing as women, then they've been doing this all along. Right? This whole thing is having this phenomena acknowledged. Is that so hard to acknowledge? 

What do you want trans people to do? Disappear? Go back to having us not acknowledging their existence? That won't be possible. Because now you know.

Here's a fresh idea I haven't seen discussed anywhere. This is what you need me for because I don't see this elsewhere: 

The right reacts, they write as if they'e reacting, they comment as if they're reacting, that new pervs will be manufactured for the purpose of perving by any new legislation. The legislation itself will draw out new pervs and protect them while endangering women.

Again, that is a very good point to be wary. 

And then I think of the women at ballets and plays and concerts at intermission complaining about the intolerably long lines, a much bigger problem for women because their bathrooms must have stalls than for men who use urinals in their bathrooms and that goes a bit faster, theoretically unless the men are pee shy that night then the whole thing can take considerable time and who also wait when crowds go for the bathrooms. Crowd management is no small thing. The rooms sit empty when the crowds are not there. This is a consideration for concert halls and coliseums and the like. Now what happens with unisex bathrooms? 

People are imagining all existing bathrooms can be switched to unisex all across the nation by law. They must all be stalls. Critically, at any given public place there will not be two unisex bathrooms as imagining all existing dual bathroom be turned unisex.  They will design and build only one bathroom. Convenient for business to install plumbing for one room and not two all across the land. A tremendous advantage in savings altogether. A few more stalls, a lot less urinals. Expect them to not have enough stalls to satisfy both at peak use. Larger bathrooms. More waiting at busy places and times. 

Doesn't bother me at all knowing trans ladies have been using our male bathrooms all along. I kind of like the idea. I don't think ladies mind sharing their bathrooms with kindred spirits with peepees and have been all along.  What hasn't happened is our acknowledging these people exist. And they have to go to the bathroom too. If the law changes then bathrooms will be all stalls and there will be more waiting for stalls. There always are peaks. In the future then, larger size bathrooms mostly underused and insufficient for both at whatever their peak. I'm trying to help you adjust. 

Isn't it interesting observing activists agitate for two opposed positions? The left is agitating the right to accept unisex bathrooms while the left agitates the right to accept increased immigration from populations with religious sensitivity to separation of sexes. Those two things don't go together yet both are demanded. Life itself presents conflicting demands sometimes.