Transgender Bathroom

President Obama has sent a notification to all the States that public* schools should allow transgender students to use bathrooms (restrooms) matching their gender identity. In other words if a boy thinks he is a girl in his mind he should be allowed to use the girls bathroom. And vice versa. The officials say a student's gender identity as the student's sex for the purpose of enforcing this guidance.

 

It is only a “guidance” and not a “law”. In other words if you do not comply with the guidance, funding for your school will be cut off.

 

Mr. Obama wants to make sure transgender students enjoy a supportive and nondiscriminatory school environment. Many states are objecting to this. But LGBT groups praised this announcement. What if a creep posing as a transgender enters a girls bathroom?

 

Someone has filed a case in the Supreme Court and it has taken up this case for hearing,

 

President Kennedy wanted to put a man on the moon.

 

President Obama put a man in the girls bathroom.

 

* In USA, public schools mean government schools that operate from money received from the government,

First Impression – Part 2 of 2

Time rolls by. He had finished college and now has a good job in New Delhi. Lost touch with his college friend after graduation. 2 years gone. On a Sunday afternoon, he was walking in Connaught Place. Is this a fate or is this a fate? Who he saw in Connaught Place by chance on that day? The same college friend. And, they started meeting each other frequently.

 

He was going on vacation to Chennai. His friend gave him a package and asked him to deliver to his family. So, one day, he visited his friend’s family. This time he did not go in a bullock cart. He went in a rented car. Not wearing a lungi with no chappals. Decent pant and a dress shirt.

 

Ding Dong. Who opens the door? That most beautiful girl. He asked: Remember me? She replied: How will I forget. Neengathan andha lungi katna retta mattu vandikaran (You are that lungi wearing double oxen bullock cart driver).

 

He: Is your mom home?

 

She: Mom has gone to the hospital. She will be back in a few hours.

 

He: No one home except you?

 

She: The servant maid and the errand boy are here. And, our 4 Alsatian (German Shepherd)

 

He: I will come back after 2 hours

 

She: Please stay here. I want to talk to you.

 

He: What????

 

She: Remember you said I was wasting my time doing English lit?

 

He: It was an off the cuff remark. Hope you did not take it seriously.

 

She: After you left, my brother told me how intelligent you are. But in your village outfit on that day, I thought you were an uneducated villager. I took your comment seriously. I thought about what you said and changed my major.

 

He: (a guilty) What????

 

She: Yes, I changed my major to “this subject”. I was also impressed you were the first guy who never gave a damn about my beauty. All the boys I have come across used to agree with me all the time because of my beauty and how rich our family was.

 

He: Your brother told me also about how good Bharathnatyam dancer you are, and a great violinist. I did not give a damn for them either.

 

She: Unga thimir appidiyey irukku (You still have the same arrogance)

 

He: I was born with it.

 

And the two hours went by like two seconds.  Almost the entire conversation was a  non stop talk talk talk. The 4 German shepherds (one sitting on her right side, one on her left side, and two near her feet) constantly looking at him.  Looked like any wrong move from him, they were prepared to clobber him. The last 15 minutes were shared silence. They fell for each other.

 

They were happily married a year later.

 

Years later, they were travelling frequently in first class across USA and Europe and Asia. On one occasion, in the comfort of first class, a glass of double scotch on the rocks in his hand, 35,000 feet above ground, he asked her: why are you silent? What are you thinking?

 

She: How the world turns! That maatu vandikaran (bullock cart driver) is now travelling in first class in a jumbo jet.

 

He: How about the girl who married that maatu vandikaran? She should be in a village fetching water from the river 2 miles away. She is also comfortably seated in a first class cabin sipping orange juice.

 

She: I was born with luck.

 

He: Our fate is intertwined

 

Epilogue: KK wrote: Does the girl know about this story being written and posted on the internet for the world to see? If yes, what does she think about it?

 

No, she does not know. She passed away in a freak accident 10 months ago. If she was alive and informed about this post, she would have said: Don’t you have any other topic to write about for your blog?

 

Aval avan uyirin uyir (She was his life’s life)

First Impression? Part 1 of 2

He was a big city (Chennai) college student. He spent his summer vacation with his uncle and his family in a remote village in Tamil Nadu. He used to spend every summer vacation in that village. That village had no electricity. Only hurricane lights. No phones. You have to cross a river to enter the village. There was no bridge and therefore cars could not come to that village. His uncle in that village was a big land owner.

 

On that day he took his bicycle and went to the nearby small town to the post office. There, by chance, he saw his college friend from Chennai. They both were surprised. The friend said his mother is a government doctor and she had been transferred to this small town a few days ago. The friend asked him to come to his home sometime. He said he would.

 

A few days later, his aunty asked him to go to the nearby small town and get vegetables. So he took the family bullock cart and went to that small town. Even though he was a big city boy and studying in a college, he knew how to drive a bullock cart. He came in front of his friend’s home and parked the bullocks there.

 

His friend greeted him. They both went inside. Then came the most beautiful girl with coffee in her hands for her brother and this guy. Tall, lean, very long hair, skin color almost European. Her face could launch a thousand ships.

 

The friend introduced both of them. Since it was a village and he was driving a bullock cart, this big city boy was wearing a lungi and a banian and no chappals. And, at that time, she thought he was an uneducated villager. Her brother introduced him just as a friend and no other details. At that time he did not know his college friend had a sister. If he had known, he would have dressed kind of reasonably.

 

Here is how their conversation went – all in Tamil.

 

He: Hello

 

She: Hello

 

He: What are you doing?

 

She: Studying in college

 

He: Which college?

 

She: (she tells the name of the college)

 

He: What major?

 

(Now she is surprised this villager even knows something about college major)

 

She: English lit

 

He: You are wasting your time studying English lit

 

She had the shock of her life time. This uneducated country brute tells me I am wasting my time. Since she was so beautiful she was used to boys going after her and agreeing with whatever she says, this was the first time she experienced that someone did not care or even notice her beauty and said she is wasting her time. She stared at him angrily for 10 seconds and left without saying a word.

 

And then?

 

Stay tuned until next week