I find it sad that we can not seem to wrap our heads around teaching our youth about sex and sexuality when we keep a very simple picture of gender as our model. Add people who find same gender partners sexually appealing and they almost can't handle it, but I find it even more pathetic that the concept of a transgendered person seem to blow the minds and cool of so many more people.
People seem to have an obsessive fascination with people who have "become" a different gender. They get dissected in the media with intrusive and odd and down right rude speculation.
In our school systems we are slowly trying to "accommodate" students with different sexual identities including transgender. But these are still seen as "accommodations", like indulgences we bestow upon these "poor" individuals. But as we seek to empower more and more of our own populous we have to understand that they have the right to use those facilities that fit their needs.
Maybe we do a disservice to all our people by having separate gendered locker rooms or restrooms.
If everybody got used to every "body" many of the titillating mysteries that lead us to making bad choices would disappear.
And gay, straight, transgender or non gendered, would become meaningless in these settings.
