LGBT Support

It concerns me because the CA ruling is so broad. I worry for the students who aren't transgendered. There are no requirements for these freedoms and knowing kids like I do I know there will be some peeping Toms taking advantage of the new law.

When the topic came up nationally last year I had male students who openly said they would lie just so they could sit and stare in the girls' locker rooms. Since CA doesn't require any 'proof' and all a boy has to say is "today I feel like a girl" it makes things too difficult to monitor.

Since boys have their business all put there when they pee it could make it uncomfortable for them as well when a girl walks in.

I can also see a slippery slope forming. What is to stop a second-rate male athlete from switching teams so he/she can break the girls' track record?

How far does this go? When does my straight non-transgender son get protection from feeling uncomfortable showering after gym? Do "female" yet male-bodied students get awarded athletic scholarships intended for girls? Does my college aged daughter have to room with a genetic male that identifies as female?

If there were some stipulations I would feel better about it. But right now it is too broad and dependent upon childish whims.

For the record I know only three transsexuals. All went from male to female. Two of them regretted their decisions within a year. One former student identified as male. I ran into her a few years later when she was a young adult. Wearing a dress and had long hair. She told me that once she got away from her screwed up family she began to understand who she really was and being a man was not part if that equation. So 3 out if the 4 people I knew who identified as the opposite gender didn't stick with it. My experience tells me this is not an exact science and until we can get some parameters in place we need not jeopardize the many in order to convenience the few.