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    Gender-Neutral Restrooms Are the ONLY Option at These New Public Schools

    A handful of schools in the Kansas City area have abandoned the traditional bathroom design and will offer students gender-neutral restrooms this school year, with boys and girls using stalls adjacent to one another.

    The wall outside the restroom features boys and girls symbols, according to The Kansas City Star. It is being offered at two new elementary schools and at renovated restrooms at a high school.

    "I think it is great," Melanie Austin, a parent of a first-grade girl, told the newspaper. "You just don't know what gender a kid might identify as. This helps everyone to feel comfortable, accepted."

    The inside of the bathrooms look different than traditional stalls seen at schools, restaurants and stores. Each stall is an individual "room," with floor-to-ceiling walls and a lockable door. Boys and girls wash their hands at the same sink in a common area, allowing teachers to stand in the common area and monitor students, the newspaper said.

    "Students said they like these restrooms better because they are more private," Rochel Daniels, executive director of organizational development, told The Star.

    The gender-neutral restrooms are featured at Rising Hill Elementary and Northview Elementary and at North Kansas City High School. They're also opening at the Eastgate and Gateway sixth-grade centers, the newspaper reported.

    Some people hope it's a solution to the transgender bathroom debate. But on the newspaper's Facebook page, readers were mostly critical, saying it will spark new problems.

    "As a retired high school teacher you never allow students into an area where they can completely lock authorities from access," Joe Greenwell wrote. "The locked rooms will become places where kids can smoke and have sex without the interference of authorities. As for smoking drugs if they can't prove it, flush it, they are scott free."

    Another reader, Peter Bernegger, wrote, "[H]ow can basic biology be SO miss understood, turned on its head, by a whole city? Hey people -- you don't get to choose your gender, science says so. Note how the article is written to make this appear 'normal.' Fight back, don't let this happen to your community."

    Still another reader had more practical concerns: "I feel sorry for the girls. Boys have bad aim."

    https://www.christianheadlines.com/c...ontent=2537634

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Still another reader had more practical concerns: “I feel sorry for the girls. Boys have bad aim.”
    As a male even I hate men's toilets

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    Us outdoor folk have been using the gender neutral restroom for years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Us outdoor folk have been using the gender neutral restroom for years.
    So I assume you approve then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    So I assume you approve then.
    Only the kind that dont flush.

    And so help me, if someone doesnt get this...were you a brain donor??

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Only the kind that dont flush.

    And so help me, if someone doesnt get this...were you a brain donor??
    What gets me is that the just do it and nobody does anything about it. It just seems to be accepted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    What gets me is that the just do it and nobody does anything about it. It just seems to be accepted.
    For real. I would stand at the door shaking my head and scowling.

    On the other hand...
    True story from my pastor friend while at a gas station store: My friend stood at the counter as the one-holer men’s room was locked in occupied fashion. The trucker paces back and forth until he finally cant hold it. Trucker checks the womens room door, finding it open he enters. When he came out he nonchalantly walks up to the counter, looks at the checkout person and with a wink and smile said, I for a moment identified as female. My pastor friend just cracked up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    For real. I would stand at the door shaking my head and scowling.

    On the other hand...
    True story from my pastor friend while at a gas station store: My friend stood at the counter as the one-holer men’s room was locked in occupied fashion. The trucker paces back and forth until he finally cant hold it. Trucker checks the womens room door, finding it open he enters. When he came out he nonchalantly walks up to the counter, looks at the checkout person and with a wink and smile said, I for a moment identified as female. My pastor friend just cracked up.
    Hey, I've done that a few time myself. But it was a PRIVATE bathroom, one person only allowed at a time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Hey, I've done that a few time myself. But it was a PRIVATE bathroom, one person only allowed at a time.
    Up here, I have used that one out back.

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