AS188: More Transgender Discussion with Fiona

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🗓️ 12 November 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this second installment with Fiona, we debate a bit about what the rules should be for transgender kids or kids who begin identifying as another gender in high school, and request full use of shower/locker rooms. This is a real case that happened recently and the result was that even a separate changing area within … Continue reading AS188: More Transgender Discussion with Fiona →

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0:00.0	You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 188 and I am your host Thomas Smith
0:37.8	All right we'll continue the interview with Fiona and then maybe I'll say a few words afterwards if we have time
0:45.8	so let's just get right to it. So I suppose I want to try to take a second and I don't I think it would be a little I don't know what the word is maybe
1:08.6	Timmit of me to back down on the thing I was trying to talk about originally when I posted this thing not not in this
1:14.5	conversation I'm just bringing it up for the first time but when I first posted this what I
1:19.7	was curious about as a as a matter of policy because I think it is maybe a little difficult maybe you disagree I thought I think it's interesting to look at this problem
1:31.2	when it comes to kids because I think that's when it's maybe not
1:36.3	necessarily straightforward because here here's what I want to say I I really
1:40.1	don't give a shit and and this is maybe important to say because it sounds like there are people in certain states who are not at all on the same page with me on this, but I really don't give a shit when it comes to adults and what bathrooms they're using.
1:53.7	I, Fiona, you use whatever bathroom you want.
1:57.6	You know, I really, it's just not an issue at all.
2:00.7	I think the only issue that, and it's hard because sometimes I try to look at these
2:06.3	little corner cases and I'm not saying I'm always right or anything but I'm just trying to look at these
2:10.4	corner cases and then I think sometimes when you do you can be
2:15.1	painted onto the wrong side of things like someone might think just because I'm
2:19.2	saying this might be a difficult situation that somehow I'm against trans rights or I want you
2:24.9	know trans people to use different bathrooms in all cases not not the case but I do
2:29.7	think it could be problematic if if you had a rule or if the law is that as soon as a male
2:37.8	identifies or vice versa identifies as female that therefore then they're entirely entitled to shower
2:45.8	openly when it comes to high school kids with them.
2:51.0	It that's something that could be difficult and furthermore I could see that being not just difficult, you know, like for me or something, but for the public. I mean, I don't know because the public is largely not terribly understanding with these kinds of things.
3:06.6	And I think that's something that's interesting to talk about.
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