Evolution also provided variation in gender identity, which in some cases trumps their physical attributes. An individual's rights are what this is all about.
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Apple Among 53 Companies Supporting Transgender Student in Supreme Court Case
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They already are. People with a dick use the men's room, people with a ***** use the women's room. That's being treated equally. A mental disorder doesn't give you special treatment.
53 companies supporting? Just build this kid a new dunny (toilet/bathroom/restroom/WC for non-Aussies), they can afford it, surely.
EDIT - actually I got a better idea. Get him/her/it his/her/their own portaloo, he/she/it don't have to share then....brilliant.
EDIT - actually I got a better idea. Get him/her/it his/her/their own portaloo, he/she/it don't have to share then....brilliant.
You have scientific evidence to support this?
Neglecting the Mac for so long, yeah the fraction of a million people that need a Mac Pro is why Apple's reputation is going down
Also, so if Apple stands up against what they feel as discrimination or wrong doing and that's why their reputation is going down then so be it, standing up for what you think is right is more important than a number on a list
Gender is "the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex" (Merriam Webster), and sex is "either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as female or male especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures"
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It never ceases to amaze me just how intolerant members of this this forum are towards members of the LGBT community, while they simultaneously question why there is a need to distinguish the LGBT as a protected class against discrimination.
Yup. This is clearly a mental health illness. No one in the right state of mind is going to wake up one day and assume another gender.
If I walked into a hospital and said I now identify as a frog, I would be locked up and sent for evaluations asap.
We are not intolerant. I have many LGBT friends.
This is nonsense, trivial issue.
If you have a pen*s you go in the boy's bathroom. It's as simple as that
This video might help people see the issues the other side may have, this goes for both the left and the right.
How are you going to spot the difference? Their are certainly men who feel like women and dress like men
I'm not religious, don't care about the bible. The issue is that they're giving more rights to transgender people than "regular" people.
It matters when it starts affecting my rights, which it has.
Maybe bathrooms also have their biological rights...
I think this thread and story says something really nice about the US compared to countries where you wouldn't be allowed to take something like this to court. Whatever the outcome.
Trump simply made it up to the states to decide if they want to follow the guideline, or not, or do something else entirely.
This is a non-news people. But of course, hate is stronger than logic. Don't like what your state is doing, call up your governor. But I guess hating Trump is easier than actually trying to make changes.
And if you are pro-equality, then you will have to support co-ed bathrooms. That's equality. Do you have two bathrooms in your home, one for male and another one for female? No. Co-ed is the normal thing at homes. Instead of making noises, the solution is already there.
I'm starting to actually get sick of reading this stuff on Mac Rumors. Technically speaking this "background" stuff has absolutely nothing to do with the Mac and the tech that comes out of Apple. The editors, moderators and administrators of Mac Rumors obviously have an agenda to ram this stuff down our throats. Engadget is doing this crap as well and it's getting real old. Many come here to read and discuss our favorite Apple products. Instead we are treated to a constant barrage of political and social commentary.
Bathrooms are one thing, but how would this effect communal showers and locker rooms like at the gym and athletic clubs?
These are definitely strange times we live in.
These are definitely strange times we live in.
I doubt it. People cannot afford to boycott all of the companies that have been involved in LGBTQ rights without inconveniencing themselves to the point where they'd end up with an obscure little home built PC running some Russian or Chinese Linux distribution.
No this is about women being able to go to the bathroom without staring at or having to deal with some guys penis. It has nothing to do with gender or what gender some person thinks they are. If you have the equipment you go to the bathroom that handles that equipment. What happens next we have to put urinals in the women's bathroom because some guy is being disrespected because he can't stand up and piss. Bathrooms are designed to handle certain body parts. If you have those body parts use the correct bathroom. Bathrooms are not designed to cater to your mental outlook on life or to your desire to get attention, they are simply a place to relieve oneself.
Thank you my brother! I'm so sick of comments like the one you just quoted. In fact I'm also sick of all the damn protesters who truly have no idea what they are protesting about either.
Explain that to me please.
Does a black person or Irish person effect your rights? Yes, you do have rights. We are trying to give them to everyone else as well.
This x1000000. Don't see why we don't call it what it is - a mental disorder. And don't allow discriminaton on that basis same as you woudn't discriminate someone with Down's, ADD, Autism, etc. But the fact is you are either a Man or Woman and nothing can change that fact.
Because they need it because they are hated and outsiders. You're probably white and don't have that problem. Same thing with Black Lives Matter. We don't need White Lives Matter because white people are privledged. Black and transgender people are not.