Oh I can just see how the American parent would loose their shit if this happened at the school their little snowflake attends:

Cross-dressing students get own bathrooms at rural Thai school
By Ambika Ahuja, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BANGKOK, Thailand - For teen boys who prefer to dress as girls at one rural high school in Thailand, taking a bathroom break no longer means choosing between "male" and "female" restrooms. There's now a "transvestite toilet."

The Kampang School in northeastern Thailand conducted a survey last term that showed more than 200 of the school's 2,600 students considered themselves transgender, said school director Sitisak Sumontha.

So, when classes resumed in May, the school unveiled a unisex restroom designated by a human figure split in half - part man in blue and part woman in red. Below it are the words "Transvestite Toilet."

Three transgender students praised the new restroom as they plucked their eyebrows and applied face powder in front of the mirror outside the stalls.

"I'm so happy about this," Vichai Sangsakul, a teenager with a pixie hairdo pulled back with a pink barrette, told Thailand's PBS news channel on Tuesday. "It looks bad going to female restrooms. What would other people think?"

Most rural Thais are conservative in many ways, but the trailblazing toilet initiative at the school in northeastern Sisaket province reflects another aspect of Thai society: its tolerance of the country's very visible transgender community. The term describes a wide range of identities including cross-dressers, transvestites, transsexuals and those born with the physical characteristics of both sexes.

"These students want to be able to go to the restroom in peace without fear of being watched, laughed at or groped," said Sitisak.

He said the concept reflected a growing need at Thai schools and universities.

Kampang is not Thailand's first educational institution to set up unisex washrooms, though Sitisak said he believed it was a first for a secondary school. A 1,500-student technical college in the northern province of Chiang Mai set up a "Pink Lotus Bathroom" for its 15 transvestite students in 2003.

Deputy Education Minister Boonlue Prasertsopar recently said the ministry plans to count the number of transgender university students.

He said he was not promoting transgender interests, "but if there are a lot of them in a university and it's a problem, we may have to consider building toilets and dormitories for them."

Transgenders are regularly seen on TV soap operas and throughout Bangkok, working at department store cosmetics counters, popular restaurants, in office jobs and in the capital's red-light districts. Thailand also has transgender beauty pageants.

cool never heard of anything like this before

why would a parent flip out? I would think that the most conservative/paranoid parent would prefer that they allow their child to be segregated from the "sinful" or outright crazy lifestyle of a transgender.

I think the argument against this type of thing has always been the logistics of reconfiguring the existing structures for separate/additional bathrooms.

I wasn't talking about the trans-gender kids' parent, I was talkin about the parent that thinks condoms shouldn't be available in school because it will convince their kids that they should fuck before marriage and shoot heroin.
Trans-gender teens are way too much for those 'rents to comprehend, much less allow a seperate bathroom for.

I was talking about the "normal" kids parents as well.... and by creating a seperate bathroom, they likely will say "at reast they arent gonna be rooking at my sons cock"

That shit's weird.

i've got a couple of friends i hang out with regularly, and they have an aquaintence who is trans-gendered (looks like a guy, mustache, etc., but has lady parts), and when they go out to clubs and she needs to go to the restroom, all the chicks come out raising hell when she goes in there. we were at a bar called rayford's in memphis one time (it was a very ghetto place, btw) and i thought all hell was going to break loose. i can see how this would be an issue.

If you look like a man (i.e. you have a moustache), you should go in teh men's room. They do have doors on the stalls, so sit if you have to to piss. Nobody would freak out. And if you're on the rag, bring your own tampons with you, that's about all you're missing out on from the ladies room.

200 out of 2600? Doesn't that seem abnormally high to y'all? Does this school attract transgendered students from all over the area, or is that child prostitution really fing up these kids gender identities?

Finally someone noted the obvious!! Well, Thailand must treat their cross dressers well, since they are vital part of their economy by atracting euros and dollars.

two middle school principles in my area got sex changes... does that relate to this?