Good points. We (and our children at school) are already sharing public restrooms with homosexuals, whether we like it or not. There is no remedy for it that; no matter how homophobic we may be, we simply must accept that as a reality when we choose to use a public rest room.
This transgender thing is no different, really, unless (as one FReeper noted) we want to have police standing guard to check for gonads, and even that wouldn’t work in some cases.
On a more general note, as we are constantly bombarded with these “Donald Trump is not a conservative” threads, I have been asking myself the following question:
Is the issue really something a POTUS has power over, and on which we really need to know a candidate’s position? Or, is it just another easy pot shot question that leftists ask of Republican candidates only, knowing it will put them in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” position?
This bathroom question is clearly the latter, and I think Trump’s answer was just fine. It shows he’s not a complete idiot.
The total number of actual transsexuals in the US probably numbers in the thousands. Most of us here have probably never had to even see, much less interact with a transexual in our entire lives. How this completely marginal topic became THE most important and pressing political question of the year for obsessives on both sides of the aisle is a testament to how much fuss over basically nothing the media can make.
America is being de-industrialized and we're invaded by millions of Third World people. Those are much bigger problems than the unlikely prospect of having a guy wearing a dress and a wig walk past you in a restaurant bathroom.
Kind of funny how some think any POTUS can monitor who uses what bathroom while ISIS beheads Christians. Priorities are skewed.
"We shouldn't be facilitating putting little girls alone in a bathroom w/ grown men. That's just a bad, bad, bad idea."