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A few transgender students tie school districts in knots over locker rooms
http://www.gopusa.com ^ | October 23, 2015 6:51 am | Chicago Tribune

Posted on 10/23/2015 9:28:43 PM PDT by 100American

http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2015/10/23/a-few-transgender-students-tie-school-districts-in-knots-over-locker-rooms/?subscriber=1

Across America, public schools are faced with a challenge almost unheard of a generation ago: dealing with a student population that isn't sorted neatly into boys and girls.

A small but growing number of students and their families are demanding that schools make accommodations for transgender youths, who were born with the body parts of one gender but identify with the other.

Which bathrooms should they use? Should they play for the boys sports teams or the girls? Where should they change clothes and shower after gym class or athletic events?

Palatine-based Township High School District 211 is prepared to lock horns with the federal government over those questions, which the district believes should be handled at the local level. The U.S. Department of Education has said District 211 is violating the Title IX gender equality law by not allowing a transgender student who identifies as a girl to use the girls locker room.

The student, who has lived as a girl for several years, plays on a girls sports team but has been using a private dressing area near the gym.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint on her behalf, alleging discrimination. The ACLU's John Knight says his client should be treated "like any other girl," and the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights agrees.

By fighting that ruling, District 211 risks losing federal funding -- last year, it amounted to about $6 million -- and running up a big legal bill. But Superintendent Daniel Cates says the district has decided to challenge the ruling because Education Department has overstepped its authority.

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KEYWORDS: arth; education; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; morality; society; transgender
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1 posted on 10/23/2015 9:28:44 PM PDT by 100American
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To: 100American

It’s easier to eliminate the problem, rather then try to come up with a solution.


2 posted on 10/23/2015 9:31:33 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: 100American

Check DNA and proceed accordingly.


3 posted on 10/23/2015 9:31:43 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: 100American

Snot-nosed lunatics are running the asylums.


4 posted on 10/23/2015 9:33:03 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Thank you mom for not being "pro-choice." Amen.)
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To: 100American

When I was a kid, we called “transgenders” peeping Toms.


5 posted on 10/23/2015 9:34:07 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Thank you mom for not being "pro-choice." Amen.)
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To: 100American
transmogrified...

6 posted on 10/23/2015 9:34:54 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: 100American

More sodomite horse sh*t. They are bent in the head - that is all. A good ass kicking would solve the problem.


7 posted on 10/23/2015 9:35:12 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: doc1019
We are being destroyed from within. It is the RATS, and the head rat, the feckless fool on the hill. Of course the Rhinos have no testicles and refuse to fight, instead, sitting in the back seat on the way to oblivion.
8 posted on 10/23/2015 9:35:34 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Well, if there's any silver lining to these mental defectives thinking they're hermaphrodites, it's that I can genuinely mean it when I tell them to go f*** themselves. Ha.


9 posted on 10/23/2015 9:36:39 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: 100American; metmom

Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!


10 posted on 10/23/2015 9:37:13 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: 100American

what prevents adventurous young students from declaring themselves gender-bent entitled now?


11 posted on 10/23/2015 9:38:03 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: WTFOVR
there are women who are very manly...in body shape...in speech and tone...in attitude...

I do feel sorry for them, finding a place in this world...

however, my discomfort is just as important as theirs, and I would feel profoundly uncomfortable having a male, a real male, in female dress, peeing in the same BR I'm trying to use...

12 posted on 10/23/2015 9:38:38 PM PDT by cherry
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Back in my day there were no such thing as “transgender” at least not openly, if so they would have been called queers.


13 posted on 10/23/2015 9:39:08 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: 100American

Chaos seems to follow them wherever they go.


14 posted on 10/23/2015 9:39:51 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Fungi
don't blame the proverbially rhinos...

our churches and schools are being changed dramatically to something that is unrecognizable...

we all have the ability to run for the school board or the pta or run for public office....

I'm afraid that "rhinos" is just our excuse.

15 posted on 10/23/2015 9:40:27 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Viking2002

Well said, as usual.


16 posted on 10/23/2015 9:40:31 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: 100American

Run the DNA on all the confused kids. If XY, then male. If XX, then female. Very precise. No more confusion.


17 posted on 10/23/2015 9:41:32 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: doc1019
Tip o' the horns, sir.


18 posted on 10/23/2015 9:41:50 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

This is trash trying to run the system! They should be run out of the system!


19 posted on 10/23/2015 9:42:08 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: 100American

>> “transgender” students

There isn’t such a thing.

Drop trou, and WE’LL tell you which locker room you use.


20 posted on 10/23/2015 9:43:49 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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