美国允许变性学生任选厕所引争议

美国允许变性学生任选厕所引争议 TY: Eleven US states have filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government's recent efforts to expand the rights of transgender students. The White House issued a directive earlier this month, mandating that all students be allowed to use the toilet that matches their gender identity. The Obama administration has threatened to withhold federal education aid to states that do not comply with the directive. BK: So, first of all, could you briefly go over the arguments for both sides of the issue? RD: Well, the argument for the states is that the, that the states should have the right to set their own laws and the excuse they give for forcing transgender people to use the bathroom of the opposite gender with which they identify, is this idea of little girls being molested by men. Having said that, there is not much evidence of transgender people having molested anybody in bathrooms. From the federal government’s standpoint, it is that discrimination is wrong and that people should be able to use the bathrooms of whatever gender they identify with. If somebody is dressed as a man, if somebody has a – who’s a transgender person has a beard, they shouldn’t be forced to go into the women’s room because their original birth certificate said that they were born a woman. BK: People have made comments as to the, especially for people who do appear to be individuals of the opposite gender, using the bathroom of their birth gender, that could potentially even cause a certain amount of discomfort there. But, going back to the safety issue, you said there hasn’t been much, many cases of, for example, men going into women’s bathrooms and molesting girls. How much of a safety issue is there overall, either for people pretending to be one gender and going in for ill purposes, or for transgender individuals actually being at risk going in to the… RD: Again, the issue is – I’m not saying there’s never been a case of molestation in bathrooms, it’s just by transgender individuals, there has not been an issue. There are issues of, particularly men, preying on young boys and young girls, but that’s a whole separate issue that wouldn’t be solved by any of this legislation. I mean, in terms of safety, I think there’s more a risk of safety [for] transgender individuals if they’re forced to go into bathrooms that don’t match their identity, because people could pick on them, or people might be insulted if somebody in a beard comes into a women’s room.