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Parents sue feds for forcing school to let transgenders in girls locker room
Fox News ^ | May 6, 2016 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 05/08/2016 7:56:20 AM PDT by Zakeet

Do the rights of boys who identify as girls trump the rights of girls who are born girls?

That question is at the heart of a lawsuit filed by dozens of Illinois parents after the Obama administration’s Department of Education strong-armed their school district into allowing a transgender student the right to use all girls’ locker rooms.

“The girls are mortified,” said Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Jeremy Tedesco, a religious liberty law firm representing some 50 families. “They are in a constant state of fear that their bodies are going to be exposed to a male in these settings. It’s a constant state of stress and anxiety for them.”

At least one of the plaintiffs, a female student at the high school, was harassed and bullied because she is uncomfortable changing in the same locker room with a biological boy.

“While she was in the changing stall, other girls who were in the locker room began calling her names, including ‘transphobic’ and ‘homophobic’,” the lawsuit states.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: absolutemorals; education; fightback; lawsuit; lockerroom; transgender
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois told the Chicago Tribune the lawsuit is a “sad development by groups opposed to fair and humane treatment of all students, including those who are transgender.”

1 posted on 05/08/2016 7:56:20 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

It’s as if the Feds want everyone to home-school their children.


2 posted on 05/08/2016 7:57:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: Zakeet

“The girls are mortified,” said Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Jeremy Tedesco, a religious liberty law firm representing some 50 families. “They are in a constant state of fear that their bodies are going to be exposed to a male in these settings. It’s a constant state of stress and anxiety for them”

Well, that’s because these girls are just transphobic bigots.


3 posted on 05/08/2016 8:00:57 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: Zakeet

The Obama administration is obsessed with perversion. It’s one continuous freak show and I’m convinced their reservations are made in Hell.


4 posted on 05/08/2016 8:01:17 AM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: Zakeet

The Feds have no business regulating this. There is a solution....one single stall....just like home.It’s not like there’s gonna be a line for....whatever they think they are...


5 posted on 05/08/2016 8:02:04 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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6 posted on 05/08/2016 8:02:23 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Zakeet

Scalia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

Either way the ruling goes, if a guy walks into a bathroom with my wife or niece or sister in it, he’ll end up using the mens room at the local hospital


7 posted on 05/08/2016 8:02:27 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Zakeet

While the lefties oppose home schooling? Do they really want to push these issues to the tipping point? Have they considered the consequences of forcing children to associate and expose themselves to perverts?


8 posted on 05/08/2016 8:04:11 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Sacajaweau

According to obama logic...

If I go to a playground, open my raincoat and expose myself to little girls I can be arrested and be labeled a sex offender.

If I say I feel like a woman I can go to the locker room of the public swimming pool and stand naked among all the young girls and if anyone says anything against me they are transphobia bigots. Makes sense.


9 posted on 05/08/2016 8:05:20 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Zakeet

People need to understand that trans folk are uncomfortable going into a bathroom when they are dressed like they were a different gender. So it’s important to make everyone else uncomfortable instead, to protect their feelings.


10 posted on 05/08/2016 8:05:48 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: Zakeet

The present day use of the “phobic” appendage is a sure sign of a poor education coupled to a weak mind.


11 posted on 05/08/2016 8:06:25 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: shelterguy

It’s Alice in Wonderland logic. You start with crazy premises and the result is even crazier conclusions.


12 posted on 05/08/2016 8:09:42 AM PDT by grania
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To: Zakeet

Transgender = Brain Damaged


13 posted on 05/08/2016 8:10:50 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Zakeet

suing the all powerful Federal Government is an exercise in futility. Judge and or Jury rules in plaintiffs favor and the next judge up the line over turns the ruling. Right up to the Federal SuePreme Court then they rule in favor of their government. Republic? Sad to say, we are a Republic no longer.


14 posted on 05/08/2016 8:11:17 AM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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Can I just point out a legal issue???

The whole area of homosexuals, cross dressers, transgender who had “sex change” operations, are NOT protected classes of people under federal civil rights laws.

Congress has never passed any laws which grant any anti discrimination status to such peoples.

What’s happening here is that liberals such as Obama and his justice department hacks, have decided that these LGBT peoples SHOULD BE a protected class.

But legally they aren’t.

If we still functioned as a constitutional republic, the appropriate action would be for the LGBT peoples and their liberal allies to pass appropriate legislation on the subject.

But are we still a republic? Or are we in a situation in which a liberal president will simply shove things down our throats????


15 posted on 05/08/2016 8:12:27 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Travis McGee

Ugh!!!!!

(Where do you find these *things*??!!!)


16 posted on 05/08/2016 8:12:34 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: shelterguy

Nah nah... too complicated -

Here’s what you want:

According to obama logic...

If I go to a playground, open my raincoat and expose myself to little girls I can be arrested and be labeled a sex offender.

If I say I’m a woman and go to a woman’s restroom and open my raincoat and expose myself to little girls my actions need to be respected and the rest of y’all need to shut up.


17 posted on 05/08/2016 8:14:09 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Spok

The children are the ultimate goal of the sodomites. If they can ridicule, shame, or force parents to hand over their children to them they have won. Legali pedophilia is the end game here.

I refuse to play. If they push it to that point woe unto them and the law be damned.


18 posted on 05/08/2016 8:14:56 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: Zakeet
With Illinois being a city-state run by Chicago expect this case to go nowhere and possibly see these parents charged with hate crimes in show trials.
19 posted on 05/08/2016 8:20:21 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Zakeet

Any “parent” forcing their child to be a cross-dressing homosexual should be prosecuted for child abuse.


20 posted on 05/08/2016 8:22:18 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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