• Xanis@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      This guy also doesn’t support free lunches for kids in school. Says the majority don’t need them, so we shouldn’t provide them at all.

      I gotta say, you sure have some terrible takes, my friend.

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        Been researching me. Dishonestly representing my opinions. Poor.

        I am totally in favour of free school lunches for those in need.

        Do you support buying rich peoples kids lunch with tax money?

    • Rakonat@lemmy.world
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      Transmasc students who use boys toilets still menstruate unless on some serious hormone therapy.

      Really this country should gave gone to unisex toilets generations ago

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Really this country should gave gone to unisex toilets generations ago

        The reality of this is that it would end up like divisions in sports and other competitive activities and we’d have a women’s restroom and a unisex restroom. Because some women want to avoid the opposite sex and society will broadly respect that because they are women.

        If schools did switch to all unisex toilets, then we’d just be a complaint and a lawsuit away from official Title IX policy being that girls toilets are mandatory regardless of whether or not there are unisex toilets but boys toilets are not if unisex toilets are available and to do otherwise is sex discrimination because of some arbitrary excuse containing the word “historic” to explain why discrimination is not discrimination so long as it benefits girls.

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          Instead of stalls put proper walls and doors on the toilets like you have at home. Boom. Unisex toilets with no issues.

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            Other than capacity, space, and expense retrofitting issues. Single occupancy toilets take up more room which means being able to handle less people in the same space and space is not an unlimited resource in most building designs. Especially if you are talking about doing it to an existing building.

            My comment about Title IX (a law that says that any educational program receiving federal funding may not discriminate with respect to sex) is specifically in reference to them taking exactly that stance with sports - if a girl wants to play a sport that has a boys team but not a girls then a school is required to let her try out for the boys team (and cannot consider her sex and gender as far as whether she makes the team) under Title IX policy, but if a boy wants to play a sport that has a girls team but not a boys team, he’s SOL under current Title IX policy. To do otherwise is sex discrimination. Equity.

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            In fact, one of my favorite theaters around here is all unisex bathrooms. You shut a door and you have a dedicated toilet and sink. It’s fantastic.

            Work has a selection of “unisex” bathrooms and I use them all the time, much preferred over the mens room.

            So I’m personally benefitting from this brand of “wokeness”, even if I’m not trans.

            • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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              In fact, one of my favorite theaters around here is all unisex bathrooms. You shut a door and you have a dedicated toilet and sink. It’s fantastic.

              That dramatically reduces capacity though. Which is fine if you don’t need that capacity, and/or aren’t trying to retrofit existing facilities without spending a fortune.

              There’s a pizza place nearish me that has two single occupancy unisex restrooms, for example. But before they moved to unisex they had two single occupancy gendered restrooms, so they were just changing signage rather than having to do any kind of construction to make it happen. As opposed to say a local theater that has 6 toilets, 4 urinals and 4 sinks in one restroom and not remotely enough space to have 6 separate rooms with a toilet and sink each in the same space - but they expected to need higher throughput in a smaller footprint (less so now, but they were pretty busy pre-COVID).

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        That is a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people. Making all toilets wheelchair accessible would probably help more.

        Problem is, women hate it when men use their toilets

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          How about people that are born with both sets of sexual organs? Should those people not have access to the products that they need regardless of which bathroom they go in to?

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            They are intersex. That’s a complicated biological situation unique to the individual. I suppose ideally we would change all bathrooms to accommodate 1.7% of the population? If so, I can propose some larger groups who may want representation in public facilities

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              So you agree that it is a problem, just not as big of a problem as others? If you look on the bright side that’s still a win, even if you can think of bigger ones. Are you actively campaigning for the other changes you can think of?

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    Imagine, you’re sitting in a coffee shop enjoying a latte and a guy comes up and says “did you hear about tampon tim?” No one can imagine that. It’s fucking weirdo abnormal behavior.

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      I’d love that opportunity to grab him by the ear and explain why it’s so beneficial for our society to actually cater to the needs of humans.

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    Well he is going to help stem the red wave so I don’t know how this is actually an insult…

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      From the article:

      And finally, as Walz reminds us—anyone who thinks that period jokes are appropriate or funny is just plain, well, weird.

      Nah. Period jokes can be funny. The problem here isn’t a joke. It’s the anger they’re trying to stir up about the Boogeyman of transgender students.

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        Any joke focused around a kernel of hate will fall flat with normal people. Humor is one of the places that intention is really easy to discern.

        Jokes made in shared struggle or out of affection FEEL different from those crafted to hurt.

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      Ok if Harris and Walz win I am going to memeify a picture of Tim heroically stopping the ‘Red Tide’ with a massive sanitary product. I’m sure others are planning the same.

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    I’m a Pro Life Republican trying to Save The Children and it’s SOCIALISM to use MY Tax Dollars giving Girls TAMPONS! MY Tax Dollars should ONLY be used for Billionaire’s YACHTS and Millionaire’s ABORTIONS! NOT Poor Girl’s TAMPONS!