Physiology, not psychology, must dictate bathroom use

[Shana A]

Physiology, not psychology, must dictate bathroom use
By Editorial Board
Feb 28, 2010 12:00 am

http://www.sunjournal.com/node/804397

For a lot of people, using a public restroom — with its standard lack of privacy — is fraught with anxiety. For transgender teens, the anxiety can be worse.

Which is why the Maine Human Rights Commission will talk Monday about advising schools to allow transgender students to choose bathrooms based on the gender with which they identify, not their birth gender. That allowance could ease some of the bathroom anxiety in our schools.

The problem is, that allowance could heighten bathroom anxiety of a different kind for other students whose gender identity is also their birth gender.