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Originally Posted by anonymous123
I'm not sure that I understand how this question is pertinent to the conversation, Madison. The skin color you are born with is not a choice, and the law does not prevent students of different skin colors from sharing a hotel room. The law does prevent students of different sexes from sharing a hotel room.
I do not know how you categorize students who choose to identify with the opposite sex of the body they were born with. Maybe you should go by what their government-issued ID says, or their birth certificate, or what the records kept by the school district indicate. The last thing you want is a student with a male body, but who identifies as a female, sharing a room with female students. This is a recipe for disaster, and, as a parent I would not be comfortable putting my daughter in this situation.
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This stems from one of the great misunderstandings of the LGBTQI community: this isn't about what you see on the outside but what people feel on the inside. You can't see feelings. The person has to tell you and you have to listen to understand.
anonymous123, I appreciate your honesty and sincerity about your feelings. It is only very, very, _very_ recently that mainstream society has begun to reconsider the common, but ugly and false, view of transgender people as defective and/or deceptive. We're all at the mercy of our socialization.
But you would also do well to take transgender people at their word that they are effectively people who are trapped in a biological body that does not match how they feel about their gender. Saying that putting a transfemale in with a room of cis females is the same as putting a male in a room of cis females is plain untrue.
And all of this assumes that the people in question are heterosexual and would feel that their privacy would be violated by having to room with a member of the opposite sex. As I've said before, you have to take into account the general energy of the room as determined by the individuals.