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International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) is an American non-profit transgender advocacy organization. IFGE was founded in 1987 by Merissa Sherrill Lynn.[1] The foundation is devoted to "overcoming the intolerance of transvestitism and transsexualism brought about by widespread ignorance."
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Cross-dressers are one group in the larger transgendered community.
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Myths About Transgender
Many of the following myths are also a large part of Transphobia. It is impossible to accept any of these statements and not be within that realm. Unfortunately, there actually are members of the transgender community who are transphobic and do not recognize it.
All crossdressers are gay. Wrong. The incidence of bisexuality or homosexuality in the transgender community is the same as the population at large. Most are heterosexual - straight.
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Private in the sense it's not out on the open excuse me!!!!!!!! Women's room is for women. There's even a book called The Women's Room by a feminist. Oh by the way I've been to outhouse in India you should try it some time. If there's any toilet paper you have to squat over a hole on the ground. No gender just free for all I get you'd love it. And no running water to wash hands.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: ThirdEyeofHorus
Amazing these ppl want to force women and girls to accept males w bits into their sanctuary then have the gall to complain about putting male and female transgendered together. It's all progressive hogwash.
originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
originally posted by: Freija
a reply to: WeAreAWAKE
A THIRD bathroom? So you want to force transgender men and women into the same space? How about some more bathrooms for gay and lesbian people too and maybe we could go back to making those damned colored people not use the white bathrooms as well while we're at it?
Naaaa...it is only about biological sex. Let not get crazy here.
Public bathrooms are not your private Sanctuary. You want a private Sanctuary, stay home.
Public bathrooms are to prevent a health hazard that would be caused by human waste.
. Not really sure why my responses are not showing but in any case Ama is part of Big Pharma and I dont trust them
originally posted by: Gryphon66
. The Ama is corrupted anyway. Ever hear of catering to special interests ?
originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
a reply to: Gryphon66
Still doesn't meet the requirement. You will always be the sex you are born. The document doesn't change a thing biologically.
The AMA and legal precedent disagree with you.
As does medical fact in sex reassignment surgery.
Are you suggesting DNA tests now to use the loo?
Are you sure you're not in favor of more government interference in our lives?
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: Gryphon66
No, the one doing their "usual bs" is you... Cross dressers are part of the transgender community... They identify in some form as partially female, which is why they dress like females...
originally posted by: theatreboy
a reply to: chrismarco
You know, my wife goes into public restrooms with my daughter. We are sseing too many stories of men in women's rooms, and even a few about attempted sexual assults.
originally posted by: sycomix
a reply to: Eilasvaleleyn
Mehh, sticks and stones blahh blahh blahh try harder next time
Ohh and yeah, I would dirt nap them for being around my sons, damned right!
originally posted by: gladtobehere
Source.
The ACLU has supported the Obama administration’s guidance on transgender bathroom use in public schools — a principle Maya Dillard Smith stands strongly against.
“It became clear that we were principally and philosophically different in opinion,” she toldAtlanta’s NPR station.
She said she is in the process of educating herself on transgender issues, but claimed there was no room for dialogue at the ACLU.
In a statement obtained by Atlanta Progressive News, she accused the ACLU of being “a special interest organization that promotes not all, but certain progressive rights. In that way, it is a special interest organization not unlike the conservative right, which creates a hierarchy of rights based on who is funding the organization’s lobbying activities.”
Ms. Smith explained that the last straw for her was when her young daughters ran into three transgender adults in the women’s bathroom.
“I have shared my personal experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women’s restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults over six feet with deep voices entered,” she wrote. “My children were visibly frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of questions for which I, like many parents, was ill-prepared to answer.”
Apparently, this women was the head of the ACLU in Georgia.
Three men over 6 feet tall, with deep voices, wearing dresses walk into a women's bathroom and somehow thats "ok" or permitted.
I dont have any kids so I have no idea how I would handle our latest 1st world problem.
I suppose I would either accompany them or escort them.
I fully realize that men were free to enter a lady's room prior to these cross-dressing laws but now that its becoming "legal", it seems like incidents in women's bathrooms are becoming more frequent.
originally posted by: theatreboy
a reply to: chrismarco
You know, my wife goes into public restrooms with my daughter. We are sseing too many stories of men in women's rooms, and even a few about attempted sexual assults.
originally posted by: tebyen
originally posted by: Sargeras
You do understand that we separated this stuff very long ago for good reasons right?
You do realize transgendered people have always used the bathrooms they felt comfortable using, right?
originally posted by: Hecate666
Yes they certainly did and it was no problem, probably because they were actual transgender people and felt and looked like a female and hence behaved like one.
However it is a completely different ballgame to make a law that allows ANY geezer in a dress to hang out in the Ladies loo as long as they say they 'feel like women'.
Only a very naive person would believe that this is not going to be abused by pervs.
We, the undersigned sexual assault and domestic violence organizations, oppose anti-transgender initiatives. These initiatives utilize and perpetuate the myth that protecting transgender people’s access to restrooms and locker rooms endangers the safety or privacy of others. As organizations that care about reducing assault and violence, we favor laws and policies that protect transgender people from discrimination, including in accessing facilities that match the gender they live every day.
States across the country have introduced harmful legislation or initiatives that seek to repeal non-discrimination protections or restrict transgender people’s access to gender-specific facilities like restrooms. Those who are pushing these proposals have claimed that these proposals are necessary for public safety and to prevent sexual violence against women and children. As rape crisis centers, shelters, and other service providers who work each and every day to meet the needs of all survivors and reduce sexual assault and domestic violence throughout society, we speak from experience and expertise when we state that these claims are false.
originally posted by: Hecate666
However it is a completely different ballgame to make a law that allows ANY geezer in a dress to hang out in the Ladies loo as long as they say they 'feel like women'.
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
a reply to: gladtobehere
This is the new world and these girls are going to have to learn to live in it.
No mention of any frightening behaviors or gestures, they were only frightened of the appearance.
The mother didn't know how to handle it? How about telling the truth? Children are vastly more adaptable than we give them credit for. And if they are terrified? It's because the mother is.
originally posted by: Gyo01
Couldn't have said it much better.
originally posted by: Sargeras
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
a reply to: gladtobehere
This is the new world and these girls are going to have to learn to live in it.
No mention of any frightening behaviors or gestures, they were only frightened of the appearance.
The mother didn't know how to handle it? How about telling the truth? Children are vastly more adaptable than we give them credit for. And if they are terrified? It's because the mother is.
Um no, men in the ladies restroom is not "the new world " because I and many like me will not allow this retardation to occur.
You do understand that we separated this stuff very long ago for good reasons right?
If I think I am a housefly can I come in someone's house and eat their food they've just made? Gimme that sammich! I'm is housefly. I know it's not quite the same but I view them both as "not all there upstairs."