Pediatrician On CNN: Transgender Girls Will Walk Around Bathrooms With Their Ge

[Danielle Emmalee]

Tell me about it.  My school shut down all of the boys' bathrooms except on due to a couple of kids vandalizing a bathroom. Why not install a camera in the bathroom? Not in the stalls, but just to get a broad view of who most recently entered a stall where a toilet was set on fire (not kidding, it happened). Now there's one bathroom for 2.5 THOUSAND guys.

A camera could've caught the perpetrators and left the rest of the guys unpunished. People need to learn to chill out. 

You can't have cameras in the bathroom, boys walk around with their penises out while they walk to the sink!

[Keaira]

Oh god! this again?
It's like listening to the angry mob back when I came out as trans at Valeo Sylvania. I'm beginning to think women around here turn into packs of rabid wolves every time they see a urinal. Even Emperor Palpatine himself would be cackling as he said "Goood.. I can feel your hate flowing."
If you want to be the spanish inquisition, go right on ahead without me. The guy already apologized and I've not heard another peep from him so as far as I'm concerned, it's square with me. You could put your anger and comments to better use by contacting your legislators and trying to get protections in place so that bathroom policing becomes a thing of the past. Then kids like Coy Mathis wouldn't have to fight to be treated like a normal girl and we could finally be done with the bathroom issue once and for all.

[Ltl89]

not good at all.. It just disturbs complete society

What is it that disturbs complete society?   I wasn't sure what you meant. 

As for this particular situation, it's a six year old child.  Why does the image of some pervert with their genitals exposed enter these people's minds? 

Oh god! this again?
It's like listening to the angry mob back when I came out as trans at Valeo Sylvania. I'm beginning to think women around here turn into packs of rabid wolves every time they see a urinal. Even Emperor Palpatine himself would be cackling as he said "Goood.. I can feel your hate flowing."
If you want to be the spanish inquisition, go right on ahead without me. The guy already apologized and I've not heard another peep from him so as far as I'm concerned, it's square with me. You could put your anger and comments to better use by contacting your legislators and trying to get protections in place so that bathroom policing becomes a thing of the past. Then kids like Coy Mathis wouldn't have to fight to be treated like a normal girl and we could finally be done with the bathroom issue once and for all.

I'm glad he apologized, but statements like this deserve to be judged.  If you are going to be bold enough to make a public statement in the media, you should be able to live up and face the criticism you receive.  It's not about hatred, but about fair criticism of the individuals public statement on national television.  Also, people can still lobby on the issue and contact their local officials while expressing their views here.  I don't see how one precludes the other. 

[Joelene9]

  I read a story about the Kibbutzes in Israel in National Geographic a while back.  It seems that they have a children's, adult men's, adult women's and marrieds' bunkhouses.  In the children's they sleep in a common bunk area, share the same shower room and shower together.  When the child get to a certain level of development, they place him or her to the adults' quarters.  They seem to not have problems and the Israeli Air Force seem to better accept recruits from a Kibbutz than from the general population as pilots.  These kids tend to marry outside of the Kibbutz where they were raised in.   

  Joelene

[Ltl89]

  I read a story about the Kibbutzes in Israel in National Geographic a while back.  It seems that they have a children's, adult men's, adult women's and marrieds' bunkhouses.  In the children's they sleep in a common bunk area, share the same shower room and shower together.  When the child get to a certain level of development, they place him or her to the adults' quarters.  They seem to not have problems and the Israeli Air Force seem to better accept recruits from a Kibbutz than from the general population as pilots.  These kids tend to marry outside of the Kibbutz where they were raised in.   

  Joelene

The Kibbutz system is very leftwing oriented, so it doesn't surprise me that they are more inclusive with such things.  However, the culture in those sort of communities is drastically different from that of American society, so it is hard to compare and contrast. 

[Shana-chan]

Pediatrician On CNN: Transgender Girls Will Walk Around Bathrooms With Their Genitals Exposed
Blog ››› February 28, 2013 11:05 AM EST ››› CARLOS MAZA

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/02/28/pediatrician-on-cnn-transgender-girls-will-walk/192836

During the February 27 edition of CNN Newsroom, host Brooke Baldwin led a panel discussion about Coy Mathis, a 6-year-old Colorado transgender girl who is suing her school district for the right to use female restrooms at her elementary school.

Everyone on the panel expressed support for Mathis' position except for Dr. James Sears, co-host of the CBS show The Doctors. Sears, who is a pediatrician and television personality, warned that Mathis might walk around the girls' bathroom with her penis exposed, like "most boys" allegedly do at that age:

    SEARS: I have three kids, a daughter and two boys, and as when my daughter was that age, I would have been very uncomfortable if there was a boy with a penis walking around their bathroom. And you say that the stalls are private. You know, at that age, most boys especially will use the bathroom then leave their pants down while they walk to the sink to wash their hands and then pull it up.  So it's going to be very uncomfortable for the other girls seeing a penis in their bathroom.

    JENNIFER HUTT: She's a girl.

    SEARS: She has a penis, though.

I know I'm quoting an old post here but really!? o_o You've got to be kidding me! She's a girl. Penis or not and while I can't speak for everyone, I doubt that she'd go around doing what they're worried she'd do. Also while it's sad I know this, I've NEVER once seen a guy in the restroom use the toilet and leave their pants down until they are through washing their hands. (And some don't even wash their hands...) They've ALWAYS pulled their pants up IMMEDIATLY after they finished going to the bathroom. (Thank God)

[Shana-chan]

I actually have seen this happen several times.  I could be wrong but I don't think if a little girl sees a penis she will be scarred for life.  But if people still feel the need to insist it will corrupt all the little girls, all you would have to do is make a rule stating that exposing genitals even when in the washroom will not be tolerated.  If it happens, treat it the same way you would if a child did so inside the classroom.

@The bolded: THIS!!! See, is it THAT hard to come up with a solution? I think the real reason here is fear for why no one's said that until now. Oh if only that could be said on the news when this was being discussed.

[complexlitigator]

Its CNN, what do you expect?

[L00T]

Yes. Every boy and man I know just cannot pull their pants up before they wash their hands. It's an epidemic, obviously.

[V M]

Yes. Every boy and man I know just cannot pull their pants up before they wash their hands. It's an epidemic, obviously.

LOL, love the sarcasm on that one