I wasn't questioning you, but quoted you because you answered my question for Bruce.

As for the bullied issue -it wouldn't happen here -our lesbian moms are too scary for kids to get out of line on sexuality issues ;) srsly, though, he'd get bullied anyway -kids don't need to see special treatment to notice "different"

How many bathrooms do you think the kid needs?

(oh and they are probably disabled bathrooms rather than staff ones.....)

One. The same one the other boys use.

you generalised. you did not talk about this school in particular. The norm in other schools is discussed in this thread. So you can't have read it very thoroughly. Before Spouting Off.

You do know you protest too much, don't you? You're too intelligent for this homophobic crap.

I was talking about the subject of this thread which you seemed to have lost the grasp of.
If all the little bastards use unisex bathrooms why would they have to make them available to one kid. Try and keep up.

BS.

the subject was that the school was jumping through hoops to accomodate the boy who felt he should be a girl

many people have pointed out that no, they weren't jumping through hoops, but yet you cling to the "boys need to be boys and pee in the boys bathroom straw" and anything other than this is unacceptable jumping through hoops to bow to PC..

pathetic. you are above this. well my opinion of you is (was).

No, they are not available to all in this school. This school is clearly behind the times in that respect. that said, they do have unisex toilets which they have advised and allowed this child to use. I must have missed the bit where they said he had to use them? I was laboring under the impression that he could still "be a man" if he wanted to....?

No, he can't be a man, he's a second grade boy, and he can damn well wear what the other second grade boys wear and pee where the other second grade boys pee. He is not special.

Everyone is special in their own way. What do the other boys wear? Is is a law? Conformity is over-rated.

You're one of those people who never admits to changing their mind or concedes defeat, aren't you? Your current position in this debate is a dinosaur in the mud. In the future, little (transgender) boys will be using your bones to scare the girls (or strengthen their corsets).

Maybe. And maybe they were born with indistinct genetalia, and were cosmetically altered, to assign them to a specific gender. What would that make them "medically"...? What God made them, or what man decided they should be? Again, I don't know if this is the case here, but, again, I've gotten zero response on this point. I think it goes to the heart of the matter: that gender isn't a neatly catagorized thing, yet we are only comfortable considering it as such.

In such a case, the uncomfortability would be squarely our problem, not that of an innocent kid who is living the experience.

You certainly haven't changed my mind with your attacks and rants.
If someone did manage to change my mind it wouldn't be a defeat.

Neither is a kid in a wheel chair that might need to use a different bathroom. Different, not "special".

Being in a wheelchair would be a valid reason to make special arrangements.
In third grade, when this kid decides he wants to be a Koala Bear, will they add Eucalyptus leaves to the school lunch menu?