htown1980: I'm still having trouble understanding your logic.
You're concern is about showering, not going to the toilet then? So you're ok with men using the same toilet as girls and women using the same toilet as boys but not men and women showering with boys and girls?
And in relation to showering, the reason you say it is bad for men to shower next to girls because girls don't have penises. And its less bad for boys to shower next to men, because boys have seen penises before, but its still bad.
I guess my first question is, how do you feel about little girls seeing, for example, Michelangelo's David. Do you think that is perverse that there is a penis out there? Do you think David is sexual?
I guess my second question is, why are you sexualising washing oneself? I find it really strange. Have you had a shower in a room with other men? Did you think there was something sexual about that?
I guess my third question is, where are all these public locker rooms where young girls are having showers without their parents?
No you're not, but you are doing this on purpose. I'm not ok with men using anything along with little girls, period. Or little boys, but that IS allowed, always has been & there's nothing I can do about it.
Michelangelo's David is a statue, not a living thing, as you very well know. It *might* be used for explaining the differences between boys & girls & probably have a laugh at it, just as long as no body parts from either the adults or the children are used as reference & there are no mentions or examples on how those parts are used.
In other words, a light, innocent lesson to start with. They'll have plenty of time to figure out what those bits are for, and even more time to do all the stuff with them. Because between two or more consenting ADULTS, everything goes.
And I do not sexualise washing oneself, but someone else did point out, as you probably read but are pretending you haven't, there's a very real possibility for a middle-aged man to be sporting an erection while showering next to a little girl.
And if you think that's all right, then I do now want to know you in real life, ever.
As for your final question, I do not know, and if I did, would not tell you.
morolf: Frankly, I'm highly suspicous of transgenderism...it's simply not possible to really change your biological sex, at least not today (maybe in a few decades technology will make it possible to totally transform a body...but we'll probably all be dead by then). People who have gender-reassigning surgery are basically mutilating themselves in my opinion, just for an illusion. It's a mental condition in my opinion, akin to people who would like to have limbs amputated or to anorexiacs...false body image. It's a condition to be pitied in my opinion, not to be celebrated (and I've never understood why it's likened to homosexuality...which proud gay man would willingly have his own d*ck cut off?).
For me the transgender movement is a step too far...it's another attempt at reconstructing society and forcing people to acuqiesce in lies. Totalitarian in intent if you ask me.
It's not totalitarian if it's not forced. And most of those people - that tiny, residual percentage - do know what they really want.
Sure, there may be the odd confused one who'll end up as a tragic cautionary tale, but that's a small fragment of a small percentage. Everything's a risk, and as risks go, these seem to be pretty low.
I say that whatever grown, emotionally stable people want to do is up to them, so long as it doesn't interfere with OTHER people's already established rights, which is the real issue in this whole toilet thing.
And yes, America is morally ill.