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Florida conservatives fight transgender restroom rule
Sun-Sentinel ^
| January 9, 2009
| Ron Word
Posted on 01/09/2009 4:50:02 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: disorders; homosexualagenda; unisex
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Where will it end?
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posted on
01/09/2009 4:50:03 PM PST
by
nobama08
To: nobama08
What is the problem with unisex bathrooms anyway?
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posted on
01/09/2009 4:51:38 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Most Animals protect their babies. Palestinians kill their babies.)
To: nobama08
3
posted on
01/09/2009 4:52:08 PM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: nobama08
GAINESVILLE - A blond girl Girls aren't blond. Only guys are.
Girls can be blondes, though.
Stoopid jernalists kant right.
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posted on
01/09/2009 4:52:52 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
To: nobama08
Sounds like a great ad - the kind of real hardball that politicians hate.
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posted on
01/09/2009 4:52:52 PM PST
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: nobama08
Florida conservatives There are such things??
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posted on
01/09/2009 4:53:49 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
To: nobama08
When these restrooms become magnets for pervs looking to have sex with men dressed as women.
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posted on
01/09/2009 4:55:46 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(Not My President)
To: Old Sarge
Northern Florida isn’t like South Florida, thankfully.
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posted on
01/09/2009 4:56:33 PM PST
by
nobama08
To: nobama08
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.
To: nobama08
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.
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posted on
01/09/2009 4:58:38 PM PST
by
Vn_survivor_67-68
(CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
To: Stevenc131
A lesbian trapped inside a mans body?
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posted on
01/09/2009 4:59:17 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(Not My President)
To: nobama08
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.
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posted on
01/09/2009 5:03:52 PM PST
by
KoRn
To: nobama08
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
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posted on
01/09/2009 5:04:08 PM PST
by
Operation_Shock_N_Awe
(It used to be checks and balances/ now its blank bailout checks and negative budget balances)
Comment #14 Removed by Moderator
To: nobama08
"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.
To: sionnsar
Stoopid jernalists kant right. Yew dint rite nun two gudd neethur.
he he he :-)
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posted on
01/09/2009 5:05:52 PM PST
by
PistolPaknMama
(Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
To: lilycicero; bigheadfred
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posted on
01/09/2009 5:06:00 PM PST
by
nahanrac
To: Stevenc131
You need a cold shower, that’s all! :<)
To: Old Sarge
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.
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posted on
01/09/2009 5:20:32 PM PST
by
PistolPaknMama
(Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
To: Dallas59
The women can easily solve this on their own, whack ‘em with that 50lb purse!
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posted on
01/09/2009 5:21:38 PM PST
by
enraged
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