Florida conservatives fight transgender restroom rule

Sun-Sentinel ^ | January 9, 2009 | Ron Word

[nobama08]

GAINESVILLE - A blond girl heads from a playground into a women's restroom. A scruffy man, lurking outside, darts in behind her. ``Your City Commission Made This Legal,'' the words on the TV screen read. And it's true, sort of.

The dark ad came from opponents of a gender identity provision added last year to the city's anti-discrimination ordinance, which now allows the city's roughly 100 transgender residents to use whichever restroom they're most comfortable using.

Foes want to repeal the new protection with a March 24 ballot measure that has divided Gainesville, a generally gay-friendly university city surrounded by staunchly conservative north Florida.

Those who support the transgender protections say their opponents are really unleashing a broader attack on the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender individuals in general.

[nobama08]

Where will it end?

[Uncle Miltie]

What is the problem with unisex bathrooms anyway?

[xcamel]

Aqualung?

[sionnsar]

GAINESVILLE - A blond girl

Girls aren't blond. Only guys are.

Girls can be blondes, though.

Stoopid jernalists kant right.

[Menehune56]

Sounds like a great ad - the kind of real hardball that politicians hate.

[Old Sarge]

Florida conservatives

There are such things??

[Dallas59]

When these restrooms become magnets for pervs looking to have sex with men dressed as women.

[nobama08]

Northern Florida isn’t like South Florida, thankfully.

[Stevenc131]

I think I have gender identity issues. For some reason I feel the need to shower with college girls. I may have to file a lawsuit to make sure I’m not denied this basic right.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

It occurs to me that these aberrant creatures really should have a third restroom available for them with the sign reading “transgendered”, or whatever they want it to say.

[Dallas59]

A lesbian trapped inside a mans body?

[KoRn]

I’m a guy, and I use a women’s restroom anytime a men’s room isn’t available.

If I gotta go, I’m gonna go wherever I can. I don’t care what reads on the door.

[Operation_Shock_N_Awe]

Right before anything “bad” happens... ie her dad proceeds quickly into the restroom, behind scruffy, with his Glock 19 Drawn and Loaded with Federal HP

[bethybabes69]

"Most comfortable using" is not the appropriate criteria on this for me.

Most sociably suitable, is more of a defining criteria as far as I'm concerned.

So if someone has already been through a physical change process, and they present and appear in an inconspicious way, and go about thier business pretty much the same as any other average girl in the toilets, not demanding any special requests for individual facilities or service, I'm ok with that.

[PistolPaknMama]

Stoopid jernalists kant right.

Yew dint rite nun two gudd neethur.

he he he :-)

[nahanrac]

Ping #9 HaHaHa:)

[bethybabes69]

You need a cold shower, that’s all! :<)

[PistolPaknMama]

Pervs looking for little boys go into men's restrooms to score. I don't have a clue how to solve the problem but if transvestites dress as women to get into women's restrooms, or uni-sex bathrooms are a big free for all....

The thing is always having your guard up. A sad commentary for the times in which we live. I never stop at a rest stop alone unless the place is packed. When I have my grandsons I stand guard outside the bathroom door and have no problem barging in if I think they take too long.

At the end of the day, our safety is up to us.

[enraged]

The women can easily solve this on their own, whack ‘em with that 50lb purse!