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DOJ Backs Transgender Teen Who's Biologically Female But Wants to Use Boys Restroom
CNSNews.com ^ | October 30, 2015 | Lauretta Brown

Posted on 10/31/2015 7:18:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

(CNSNews.com) – The Department of Education’s Office of the General Council and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division filed a brief Wednesday evening in support of Gavin Grimm, a biological female who “identifies” as a male. Grimm filed a lawsuit in June against the Gloucester County School Board in Virginia for access to the boys’ restroom.

“Prohibiting a transgender male student from using boys’ restrooms, when other non-transgender male students face no such restriction, deprives him not only of equal educational opportunity but also ‘of equal status, respect, and dignity,’” the DOE and DOJ attorneys argue in the brief.

“Treating a student adversely because the sex assigned to him at birth does not match his gender identity is literally discrimination ‘on the basis of sex,’” the administration lawyers argue. "Treating a student differently from other students because his birth-assigned sex diverges from his gender identity constitutes differential treatment ‘on the basis of sex’ under Title IX."

The brief also claims that “denying a transgender boy access to the boys’ restroom is often much more than a mere inconvenience or limitation on his ability to use the restroom — it can be an effective denial of a restroom altogether.”

It says the under the school’s current policy, “G.G. may only use either the girls’ restroom or a separate “unisex” restroom” but the unisex option “singles him out in a way that is humiliating and stigmatizing.”

The option that Grimm use the girls’ restroom “is unrealistic,” the brief says, since “a student like G.G., who identifies and presents as a boy and whom the school treats as a boy in every other respect,” can’t “walk into a girls’ restroom without creating a situation that is disruptive.”

Grimm alleged in the June lawsuit that the district’s policy violates the ban on sex discrimination in education under Title IX of the Education Act of 1972.

However the judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar, has denied a preliminary injunction asking that Grimm be allowed to use the boys’ restroom while the case was decided. That decision is on appeal before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Doumar wrote in his opinion last month that Grimm had failed "to show that his presence in the male restroom would not infringe upon the privacy of other students."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: doj; gavingrimm; gloucestercounty; homosexualagenda; lgbt; mother2be; nannystate; pregnantsoon; restrooms; transgender; virginia
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1 posted on 10/31/2015 7:18:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Norm Lenhart

You’re gonna need a bigger cage.


2 posted on 10/31/2015 7:19:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

...â€Ã¢â‚¬Å“!...


3 posted on 10/31/2015 7:20:37 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (...â€Ã¢â‚¬Å“!...)
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To: SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; altura; ...

And so, as you can see, CNS News, or at least this reporter, is perfectly fine with using Ms. Grimm’s preferred gender.

Nanny State PING!


4 posted on 10/31/2015 7:20:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

She really, really wants to use a urinal?


5 posted on 10/31/2015 7:20:48 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Speak TRUZ to power / Tell the TRUZ / No more lies; we want the TRUZ.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I would bet “it” gets raped eventually. It is inevitable.


6 posted on 10/31/2015 7:21:09 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So she pees standing up ???

and no wet shoes ???


7 posted on 10/31/2015 7:21:37 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Jeff Chandler

If I had a Euro, for every Euro posted, here, in the last week ;-)


8 posted on 10/31/2015 7:22:00 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"a biological female who identifies as a male"

So in other words she's a Pat.


9 posted on 10/31/2015 7:22:04 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“A lot of people say...what’s that..it’s Pat..”

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/its-pat/n10133


10 posted on 10/31/2015 7:24:05 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

11 posted on 10/31/2015 7:24:07 PM PDT by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Just tear their arms off. you can fit more in. Resourcefulness is the heart of conservatism ;)


12 posted on 10/31/2015 7:24:13 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Embrace "Existential Cage Theory")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Prohibiting a transgender male student...

She is a girl, i.e. FEMALE!

13 posted on 10/31/2015 7:24:15 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

She ain’t got the stones to pee up a rope. Squat yer thang in the boys room and your homies will help you shake it.


14 posted on 10/31/2015 7:26:27 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

America has lost its way.

http://www.patburt.com/


15 posted on 10/31/2015 7:26:47 PM PDT by Maudeen (Sinner Saved by Grace)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The real intent of all this is ultimate and immoral state control of every aspect of life at their whim, at the wisp of a wind. This will change by the year, the month, the week, the day, the hour, the minute, the second, all to prove the ultimate enforcer of everything in life is the State, with no recourse, and to whatever serves their purpose. "When there are no absolutes to govern society, society becomes the absolute." Franciss Schaeffer.

How much further can we descend into ultimate state control? You have the answer. Give us our freedom and liberty back!!!!

16 posted on 10/31/2015 7:33:29 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The clowns at Barry’s DOJ have decided to let the criminals and the lunatics run the asylum.


17 posted on 10/31/2015 7:34:40 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Have you ever noticed that we don't have a "Battle Hymm of the Democracy"?)
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To: Maudeen

“I swear this is true. And if you don’t
believe me, I have proof! I still have
the headphone set I heard it on!!!”


18 posted on 10/31/2015 7:34:53 PM PDT by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

As in the days of Lot.


19 posted on 10/31/2015 7:36:54 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Happens all the time at sports stadiums when the line is too long at the women's room.

20 posted on 10/31/2015 7:39:34 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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