Colorado parents of transgender 1st-grader file complaint over restroom ban

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Considering that gender is a social construction and is compartmentalizing at a basic form, I'm going to have to disagree that gender is not arbitrated... because the differences between males and females reduce 'gender' down to essentially two basic points: does it grow babies inside of it: woman, and does it infect women with parasites: man.

Basically, if we're going to boil 'gender' as a social understanding of roles and responsibilities down to only implicating differences between the sexes of male and female (and heaven forbid we get an outlier, like XXY)... the differences between gender primarily implicate only reproductive interests, and hence are largely dismissible for any other nonrelated interest (from hunting and foraging to engineering and home-making, utterly irrelevant).

As for 'boy means penis' and 'girl means vagina' for bathroom... it'd sure be a shame to be an intersex individual with partial 'manparts' and 'ladyparts' and being told they are barred from both bathrooms, forced into exclusionary conditions from their peers on a basis they might otherwise not even be aware of otherwise. Further... if boy means penis for terms of bathroom usage, then you've basically stated that I (a rather petite, feminine woman-looking purse-toting lipstick-wearing long-haired person in women's clothing) should use the men's bathroom, on basis of my possession of penis.

Violet, I don't understand why you can't address the issue at hand here, and why you feel the need to blow it way out of proportion with straw man arguments. Nothing about the school's ruling is about 1. intersex people or 2. adults who are transsexual.

You're simply projecting the perceived "rights" of intersex and transsexual adults onto children who are neither intersex nor transsexual. This has nothing to do with your right to use the woman's restroom.

Your points on gender are also highly opinionated. Gender is biological. It isn't chromosomal, although in humans chromosomes generally determine a person's gender. People who are intersex are still either biologically male or female, humans are simply built that way and we can't be neither I'm afraid, nor can we be both. Would we expect there to be bathroom exceptions for intersex people? Of course. Does that mean they should be allowed to compete against women if they're biologically male in sports? Probably not.