{"id":2975,"date":"2013-02-28T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2015-06-22T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T17:05:06","slug":"the-bathroom-argument-part-n-in-an-ongoing-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/02\/28\/the-bathroom-argument-part-n-in-an-ongoing-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The “bathroom argument,” part n in an ongoing series"},"content":{"rendered":"

The parents of Coy Mathis, a Coloradan first-grader [with magenta hair?! how awesome is that?], have filed a discrimination suit with the state’s Civil Rights Division because the school district will no longer let her use the girls’ bathroom.<\/a><\/p>\n

Why? Because they are obsessed with Coy’s penis.<\/p>\n

A letter that the Mathis family received in December states:<\/p>\n

"….I’m certain you can appreciate that, as Coy grows older and his [sic] male [sic] genitals develop along with the rest of his [sic] body, at least some parents and students are likely to become uncomfortable with his [sic] continued use of the girls’ restroom."<\/p>\n

So a girl can’t use the girls’ bathroom because some people might <\/em>be bothered [heaven forfend!] by the fact that her body differs from that of the majority of girls’.<\/p>\n

Oooh! Oooh! I can play this game. We need to make separate bathrooms for every category of person whose body might conceivably bother<\/em> someone else.<\/p>\n

Okay, so we’ll have to separate bathrooms based on race, fat, disability, age, sickness and shoe size, at the very least.<\/p>\n

Is that school district serious? Are they honestly arguing that putative future squeamish prejudice trumps a person’s immediate need to perform a basic human function?<\/p>\n

The "bathroom argument": it’s bullshit!<\/p>\n

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1473057.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I’d prefer it if you’d comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The parents of Coy Mathis, a Coloradan first-grader [with magenta hair?! how awesome is that?], have filed a discrimination suit with the state’s Civil Rights Division because the school district will no longer let her use the girls’ bathroom. Why? Because they are obsessed with Coy’s penis. A letter that the Mathis family received in… Continue reading The “bathroom argument,” part n in an ongoing series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[679,677],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stupid-cis-people","tag-transmisogyny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4993,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}