Why we need "bathroom bills"

First we have someone in a state without gender identity protections (in fact where the law says you have to use the bathroom your genitals match)
http://community.livejournal.com/transgender/2052887.html

As several folks point out, having her have to use the mens room is incredibly unsafe.

Here we have an employer trying it in a state that *dies* protect gender identity.
http://community.livejournal.com/transgender/2054367.html

As several folks point out, the employer is in violation of the law (I even found a link to a statement on the state Human Rights Commission's web site that directly addresses the issue.

Why kids hate adults, part pi^e

I just got reminded of yet another classic case of older folks *assuming* things...

I was about 7, at a summer camp. On a hike the counselor detoured us of the trail a bit to look for fools gold (iron pyrite crystals). He set us to digging. Only thing was he never thought to explain what fools gold *was* or what it looked like.

I see it *all the time* when adults (and even older "minors" (the counselor was a high school student)) are dealing with kids. They assume that because they know something and it ain't math or "tech stuff" then *of course* the kid will know it.

It's *really* bad when it's a "how to behave" thing. :-(

It must be related to the way so many folks seem to have no memory of what life was like as a kid.

I mean yeah, they can remember facts, but they seem to block what it felt like. And not recall a lot of other things as well.