Posted on 12/04/2012 3:23:58 PM PST by Morgana
NEWCASTLE, Ontario, December 4, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A girl who identifies herself as a boy has been given permission to use the boy’s bathroom at her Ontario public high school.
Sixteen-year-old ‘James’ Spencer decided to change schools after she began dressing and acting like a boy. Officials at Clarke High School in Durham Region were at first reluctant to let the biological girl into the boy’s room, asking James to use a private washroom that required a key from the main office.
But James started a school-wide petition that eventually swayed the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board to let her have her way.
“We decided it would be most appropriate ... and that’s the direction we’ve taken,” said Martin Twiss, the board’s superintendent of education to The Star.
The School’s dress code policy states that students are to dress “neatly, in good taste, and in a manner which is appropriate for the school, workplace or an out-of-school activity.”
Pro-family leaders warned earlier this year that McGuinty’s Equity and Inclusive Education (EIE) strategy would require school boards across the province to adopt policies that recognize special rights for self-identified homosexuals, transsexuals, and transgenders.
The EIE strategy, coupled with the passage of Bill 33 in June which add “gender identity” and “gender expression” as prohibited grounds for discrimination in the province, has “set the table for activism,” one critic told LifeSiteNews.
“Radical gay activists — inside and outside of the government — pushed to create a legal apparatus for their agenda,” said Jack Fonseca, project manager for Campaign Life Coalition to LifeSiteNews. “They have now began to push their ideas on children, prodding them to demand these crazy things as a ‘right’ with the backing of the newly created legal apparatus.”
Backers of Ontario’s Bill 33 boasted at the time that the bill would open the doors to “social change”.
But critics warned that the bill would result in social change that would threaten people’s safety by allowing men who dress and look like women to use public bathrooms, change rooms, and showers intended for women.
“This will represent a serious invasion of privacy and security for young girls and women. Imagine how it will put young girls and women at risk of being ‘peeped’ at or even assaulted by men who dress as women so that they can get closer to females.”
Last month a Washington state college decided it would not prevent a 45-year-old man who presents himself as a transgender “female” from lounging naked in a women’s locker room, in an area frequented by girls as young as six. Teenage girls on a high school swim team were using the facilities in September when they saw ‘Colleen’ Francis exposing male genitalia through the glass window in a sauna.
Former transsexual Walt Heyer told LifeSiteNews earlier this year that people who identify themselves as transgender suffer from a “diagnosable disorder” and that laws should not be enacted that encourage people in their disorders.
“It is so appalling to me, as a former trans person, that lawmakers today, who are motivated by sexual activists, are willing to legislate that society accept people who need psychiatric care,” said Heyer.
Heyer suggested that a more helpful alternative for people struggling with their sexual identity would be for lawmakers to “make available more accurate psychological treatment.”
Fonseca agrees with Heyer: “It is sickening to think of the harm caused directly to individuals who are encouraged to pretend they are the opposite sex. Schools are now cooperating in the psychological abuse of children.”
Fonseca worries that this kind of “social change” does not bode well for the future.
“If the state can make you profess against your conscience that a biological male is not really a man, what can’t the state compel you to do?”
Contact information: Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board 1994 Fisher Drive Peterborough, ON K9J 6X6
Toll Free: (877) 741-4577 Email: kpr_info@kprdsb.ca
Ontario Ministry of Education, Laurel Broten 14th Floor, Mowat Block 900 Bay Street Toronto ON M7A 1L2
Toll Free: 1-800-387-5514 Email: minister.edu@ontario.ca
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“This will represent a serious invasion of privacy and security for young girls and women. Imagine how it will put young girls and women at risk of being ‘peeped’ at or even assaulted by men who dress as women so that they can get closer to females.”
Exactly. How are you going to restrict what kind of pervert uses the wrong bathroom?
Wins. Such an odd use of that word.
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the only way I see this kind of insanity stopping is with a total collapse of society where people are so busy trying to simply survive that they don't have time for this kind of nonsense.
Now where is my free money and grant for exploration.
In fact I want a special parking spot at every Walmart.
It's all about me, just deal with it and you won't get sued.
/s
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the only way I see this kind of insanity stopping is with a total collapse of society where people are so busy trying to simply survive that they don't have time for this kind of nonsense.
If she still has standard equipment and if the boys showers are still the open area, multi-nozzle things, they are going to have to re-designate the class wood shop ;)
True story
Why are we supposed to accomodate a mental illness instead of trying to cure it?
The first step in curing it is to announce: THAT IS NOT REALITY
but it only takes one anonymous objection to stop a little girl from using the word GOD
the world is literally insane
Yeah, I need to use the women’s shower at the college because I think I am a woman.
Me too. It isn't fair I can't use the same showers as the girl's college gymnastics team. /s
You gotta expect pervert heavy countries to have unisex bathrooms, even in schools
You can bet none of the boys voted against, even if “it” thinks its a boy.
Even in Canada the boys will just naturally be dogs. Won’t take long and “it” will be back in the girl’s Powder room.
In the locker room, I don’t care what ‘gender’ you are, but biologically if you have the parts for a certain sex, then that’s what you are, and only then are you allowed in there.
Ideally it should be whether you have the Y chromosone or not, but at least you should anatomically appear to be what you say you are. By no measure should we allow the pervs to put their junk out there to the opposite sex to deal with, especially children.
And on that note, allowing this is one step closer to public, legally protected pedophelia.
exactly what they want
pervs run this country, there is no doubt
Now I’m confused. If she thinks like a boy, dresses like a boy, why the hell would “it” want to use the boys bathroom. I would think “it” would WANT to use the girls bathroom! Duh?
Good point.
Happened to me in 1965. We were on a tour bus nearing the foot of Mt. Fuji. My buddy and went to what we thought was the men’s. We were answering nature’s call when a group of women walked right past us, on their way to the ladies section.
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