The Bathroom Drama

~ Clarissa

Have you heard about the completely insane story of a transgender student in Illinois and the locker room drama surrounding her?

I really, really hope that this presidential election will not be lost on the strength of the bathroom debate like Houston’s HERO bill was. Yes, I know HERO was not about bathrooms but all that matters is how the voters perceived it.

If this presidential election is diverted into the bathroom / locker room territory, that’s it, the Dems are done. As Zygmunt Bauman keeps pointing out, identity will win over the economy every single time.

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8 thoughts on “The Bathroom Drama”

  1. I seriously doubt that this will be an issue in the general election campaign. Hillary’s going to start rushing toward the center as soon as she gets the nomination, and so is the Republican nominee. Nobody’s going to risk alienating voters on an issue involving such a very tiny group of individuals.

    Fair or not, that’s the way politics works.

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  2. What happens in locker rooms now? I understand that millenial teenagers are too awkward and alienated to take showers so presumably there’s no real nudity….

    But to be frank if I had a teenage daughter I wouldn’t be happy about a teenager with a penis sharing spaces where she’s changing clothes.

    Weirdest thing for me…

    “how to accommodate transgender students without singling them out”

    I’m fairly sure being singled out is a big motivation for transgender teenagers. It’s either that or assume that or particular forms of gender expression are biologically determined which wreaks havoc with a lot of other modernist dogma.

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    1. I wouldn’t be happy either. This student was offered a perfectly reasonable accommodation of changing behind a private curtain but refused. Which makes me think that this is about something else altogether.

      I have also got to wonder why there are no transgender boys insisting on undressing in full view of others in a male locker room.

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  3. I await with bated breath the new Broadway musical, The Bathroom, a colloboration between Sorkin, Mamet, and Robert Lopez with post-humously discovered material from Jonathan Larson. This musical follows a plumber and a contractor through the bathrooms of Ashdale, a small gentrifying neighborhood filled with megachurches, wedding parlors, bakeries and unexplicable sports arenas with extraneous locker rooms. Highlights include, I Gotta Go, Where Do I Go, ADA, and Walk Talk Twitter Boycott.

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      1. No such work exists….yet.
        Additional pieces:
        Yelp!
        GoFundMe, GoFuckMe
        Pizza , Pipes and Kale
        The Alimentary Canal -Dr. Oz takes over a bakery and constructs a diorama.
        Bridezillas
        The (Friend) Zoning
        Meet Cute (at the Home Depot)
        Fountain

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