Posted on 08/08/2020 11:45:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A federal court in Florida has ruled that it is unconstitutional for schools to ban transgender students from using the restroom that matches their gender identity. Judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit announced on Friday that they are affirming a lower court’s ruling on the matter because “a public school may not punish its students for gender conformity.”
The case was centered around Drew Adams, a 19-year-old former student of Allen D. Nease High School in Ponte Vedra, Florida. Adams, who is transgender, used the boys’ restroom at Nease High School, and did so without any issues until an anonymous report was made, according to Lambda Legal. After the report, he was told by school officials that he would only be allowed to use gender-neutral restrooms.
Adams worked with Lambda Legal to sue the school board in June 2017. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, a federal court in Jacksonville, ruled in Adams favor in 2018, but Adams’ school board appealed the decision last year. […]
The judges said that the schools board did not uphold the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal rights, and Title IX, which bans sex discrimination in education. …
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They can use the bathroom that matches their gender already - they just shouldn’t be able to use whichever one they want that day.
Cops for me, but not for thee. Typical leftist hypocrite.
Oops, wrong story. Delete, if possible.
Why do we have separate bathrooms anyway?
wonderful
you have male equipment, guys bathroom
you have female equipment, gals bathroom
d1ck or t1ts chopped off? you’re still a guy or a girl, now you’re just voluntarily mutilated AND mentally ill.
oh i should say that’s what this ruling should have meant
yes i know scrotus of course made an incorrext ruling
Plaintiff: “ but if my boyfriend sees me going into the boys bathroom he’ll know... the truth.”
Federal courts: “Well, we can’t have anyone knowing the truth!”
This Legal firm has law suites all over....reminds ve of ambulance chasers. Even ging after Trump.
Lambda Legal sues Trump administration Department of Health and Human Services
Checked out this Legal firm representing him.....
Here’s a few Sponsors of that Firm:
AARP - Pillsbury - master card - Toyota - American Airlines.
Checked out this Legal firm representing him.....
Here’s a few Sponsors of that Firm:
AARP - Pillsbury - master card - Toyota - American Airlines.
just dont hate guys if they do the same thing to gals in our private spaces
Are you kidding?
Exactly. Just make all gender single toilet bathrooms, like most gas stations have. Problem solved.
Govt skool dead like flat skunk middle of road.
This was a 2-1 panel decision with 2 OBAMA JUDGES constituting the majority. The government needs to ask for this ridiculous decision to be heard en banc by the 11th CCA where it will be overruled.
Just make all gender single toilet bathrooms, like most gas stations have.
Well that requires a great deal of square footage and at a great expense. Not practical
“Checked out this Legal firm representing him.....
Here’s a few Sponsors of that Firm:
AARP - Pillsbury - master card - Toyota - American Airlines.”
These companies shouldn’t have Freeper’s monies to use.,
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