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Youngkin calls for gender-neutral bathrooms after question from transgender Virginia teen [FAIL!]
The Hill ^ | 03/10/23 12:48 PM ET | JULIA SHAPERO

Posted on 03/10/2023 7:10:33 PM PST by SoConPubbie

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) called for gender-neutral bathrooms in schools on Thursday, in response to a town hall question from a transgender Virginia teenager.

“Look at me. I am a transgender man,” Niko, a 17-year-old from Arlington, Va., said at a CNN town hall. “Do you really think that the girls in my high school would feel comfortable sharing a restroom with me?”

Youngkin, who issued a series of restrictive guidelines to Virginia schools last fall related to transgender students, said on Thursday that it was important to accommodate students. 

“That’s why I have said many, many times, we just need extra bathrooms in schools,” he said. “We need gender-neutral bathrooms and so people can use the bathroom that they, in fact, are comfortable with.”

Youngkin’s guidelines would require transgender students to participate in activities and use school facilities that align with the sex they were assigned at birth. It would also make it more difficult for students to change their name or gender presentation at school.

However, the suggestion that transgender students can use gender-neutral bathrooms in response to such restrictions faces legal challenges elsewhere in the country. 

Several transgender students in Oklahoma are suing the state over such a policy, which required them to use “a single-occupancy restroom or changing room” if they declined to use facilities matching their sex assigned at birth under a new law.

Youngkin generally doubled down on several of his controversial education policies at the town hall, including barring transgender athletes from participating in sports that match their gender identity and forbidding the instruction of “inherently divisive concepts, including critical race theory,” which is an academic framework that examines the influence of racism on institutions.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bathrooms; genderdysphoria; theshill; transgender; youngkin
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To: SoConPubbie

I would have asked if ‘Niko’ possessed a penis, or not. No penis, no problem.

(I don’t have a problem with ‘neutral’ bathrooms, as long as there are also ‘Men’s and Women’s. I’ve used the neutral ones when they were convenient - when you gotta go, you gotta go.)


41 posted on 03/10/2023 8:00:55 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Nextrush

“Stability” means supporting every wacky leftist idea out there.

As Lenin said, these clowns will sell the revolutionaries the ropes that will hang them.


42 posted on 03/10/2023 8:01:40 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: metmom
Which goes to prove it's not about accommodating them, but cramming their evil, perverted agenda down everyone's throats and forcing compliance whether we like it of not.

Well said. Single use bathrooms (one person at a time) are not good enough for them.

43 posted on 03/10/2023 8:02:28 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: SoConPubbie

A gender neutral bathroom certainly makes more sense than allowing a transgender person to use a bathroom not based on their biological sex. It also is a safety issue. You can’t have students getting beaten up because their appearance does not match the sign on the bathroom door.


44 posted on 03/10/2023 8:02:49 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: ConservaTexan
XX or XY bathrooms and sports would greatly curtail this lunacy.

I propose XX bathrooms, XY Bathrooms and a third for those that are not sure. The campus police are to be forbidden from going into the third bathroom as they respect their unusual inclinations but only out of respect would they not interfer in sexual assault. /S

45 posted on 03/10/2023 8:03:59 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: SoConPubbie

Wow! If Youngkin can’t stand up to defend young women, how will he stand against the left on other issues? To immediately fold when questioned, instead of responding that women have the right to privacy, he split the baby by calling for gender-neutral bathrooms. Youngkin decided that a mentally ill young man had more rights than women do when it comes to their privacy in a restroom.


46 posted on 03/10/2023 8:04:13 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: Jess Kitting

A single use, gender neutral bathroom solves those problems.


47 posted on 03/10/2023 8:04:21 PM PST by DejaJude (I'll be back, again.)
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To: Fiji Hill

I don’t think anyone can top your remark.


48 posted on 03/10/2023 8:04:43 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Williams

“He’s simply suggesting an extra single use bathroom no one would share it at the same time. Not even remotely a problem.”

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I agree. Let’s just let the transgender community have their way on this issue. I’m sure they will be much like the other alphabet people and be totally satisfied that they have turned women into “others” and we will hear no more from them with additional requirements. Now! Aren’t we glad that issue is settled. I’m sure the trans community will finally be happy to be off the front pages of every news site since they have no more to demand of us.

(You give your opponents an inch, and they will move forward to destroy your country.)


49 posted on 03/10/2023 8:11:33 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW

He’s not giving them their way, they do not want this and are challenging it in court.


50 posted on 03/10/2023 8:14:11 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: SoConPubbie

He’s trying to have it both ways. He was an idiot to have a town hall with CNN. Of course they placed a tranny teen in the roster with that question. What a fool


51 posted on 03/10/2023 8:15:16 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: SoConPubbie

One bathroom for those with penises, another for those without.


52 posted on 03/10/2023 8:15:44 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: Williams

I cannot emphasize strongly enough that he is NOT being squishy. The headline is misleading, and transgenders don’t want what he is offering.

Some people here have stopped thinking.

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Thank you for your post. You point out intellectual laziness from more and more here. This place is NOT what it was years ago. Critical thinking is dead and you are spot on with your post.


53 posted on 03/10/2023 8:16:19 PM PST by mlitefan (Long time lurker...)
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To: DejaJude

Yes. Every general election. I’m just expressing my distain for Youngkin and RINOs in general. Hopefully, that will rub off on others. The Commonwealth of Virginia can keep him.


54 posted on 03/10/2023 8:17:35 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: DejaJude

Would your child be ok with the gender neutral bathroom?

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You understand what that is, right? It’s a single stall bathroom that anyone can use. Period. With a lockable door.


55 posted on 03/10/2023 8:17:54 PM PST by mlitefan (Long time lurker...)
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To: CFW

Just so we understand each other, I think the radical gay, etc movement is one of the biggest problems facing our country. They are fanatical marxists and pretty much running the Democrat party.

I just think what Youngkin said is not catering to them.


56 posted on 03/10/2023 8:17:55 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: SoConPubbie

He’s basically right. Put a toilet in a little room and put a lock on the damn door. First come first served, regardless of plumbing, problem solved.

Most of the floor space in multi-hole toilets is wasted anyway, so stop building them!

Cripes, this isn’t hard.


57 posted on 03/10/2023 8:24:47 PM PST by bigbob
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To: mlitefan
Yes, I understood that. What I was asking, was if her child would be ok with it or complain because they couldn't use the one they “identified” with.
58 posted on 03/10/2023 8:27:04 PM PST by DejaJude (I'll be back, again.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

And did they win? If so, who were they?


59 posted on 03/10/2023 8:29:15 PM PST by DejaJude (I'll be back, again.)
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To: Williams
The extra “transgender” bathroom he would provide them is what we would call “a bathroom”. Just a single use extra bathroom that anyone can use.

You are correct. The hysteria is unwarranted.

Here's a biological woman.

Which bathroom should she use?

If she's forced to use the bathroom that corresponds to her sex (as opposed to her gender) she's likely to get her ass kicked.


60 posted on 03/10/2023 8:31:01 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024. The real conservative.)
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