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<p>I wasn’t necessarily assuming it. </p>
<p>However, my red flags went up because the question she posed was almost identical to ones I’ve seen asked by socially-conservative/prejudicial jackasses towards transgender friends in a deliberate attempt to stigmatize and hurt them over the last decade. Some of those jackasses, unfortunately, included their very own family members. </p>
<p>Another part is that IME…it is the parents who tend to be most concerned about allowances for mixed gender roommates/bathrooms…which my LAC has done since the late '60s. </p>
<p>Most of us undergrads didn’t feel it was a big enough deal to create the dramatic histrionics I’ve observed many parents of HS classmates or extended family friends made when they found where I attended college.* This was one instance where in most cases…it was the college-aged students at my LAC who displayed far more maturity and composure than their parents or most adults in that age group. </p>
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<li>“OMG!! You’re attending a college which allows males and females to be roommates and share bathrooms?!! Gasp! <em>Deep histronic breaths</em> That’s an abomination!!” Yes…that was exactly how one HS classmate’s dad reacted upon hearing where I was going for undergrad. My thoughts…“What an idiot!” :(</li>
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