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Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Md. transgender twins find public attitudes can lag behind law

WASHINGTON — For one set of Maryland twins, the simple act of finding a bathroom when out shopping or running errands is fraught with challenges. Teenagers Julian and Darrow are transgender boys; they were born female, but never felt at home in their own bodies and now identify as male.

Asked what he does when he needs to use a public restroom, Julian laughs wryly and says, “I hold it until I get home.” Or he looks for a unisex bathroom. But every time he’s out in public, he has to make that calculation.

His anxiety is based in the controversy that’s raged across the country over the rights of transgender people, and incidents of violence directed against them. The dangers transgender people can face were spotlighted in 2011, when a transgender woman was attacked and beaten after using the ladies’ room at a McDonald’s in Maryland. An employee videotaped the beating and posted it online; the attack only ended when the woman suffered a seizure.

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

So a man was beaten trying to use the girls room. The thing between his legs really does matter, to most of us.

Anonymous said...

If you are born a male....have a male organ....you use the men's room....same for females....I don't care what you identify with....

Anonymous said...

I wish they would stop pandering to these mentals cases. Two girls acting as boys are not "transgender boys". They are girls in drag. Bruce Jenner is BRUCE Jenner in drag who wants to be called katelyn.

Anonymous said...

These transgender folks and their allies are the only ones who believe in gender stereotypes!

These girls "knew" they weren't girls because they didn't like dolls!
They "knew" they were boys because they liked to climb trees!!

What rot!

Sex, according to this nonsense, isn't determined by DNA, isn't determined by external and internal sex organs. Isn't determined by secondary sex characteristics. It's determined by whether you like Barbie dolls!

Ignorant, anti-science nut cases.

Anonymous said...

It isn't like they were going to stand at the urinal. Why not just go in and use a stall? nobody cares about that crap.

Anonymous said...

If you are a male and identify as a female could you be drafted?

Anonymous said...

These poor people are useful idiots who have been mind controlled by television and Hollywood.
They literally don't know who they are!

Pathetic.
The government is evil for pushing this crap down our throats.

Anonymous said...

So the just have to have a men's room to sit and pee? Or have they figured out how to stand at the urinal? Sit on the urinal? Wait. I'm not getting this!

Anonymous said...

I'm with 642 there's nothing stopping them from using any bathroom. Men's rooms have stalls, don't they?