Posted on 03/24/2015 12:37:15 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
HINO (CBSLA.com) — Students at Chino High School returned to school this week to find that their chemistry teacher looked very different and had a new name: Amanda Swager.
“It’s just relaxing to be able to wake up in the morning and just be me,” Swager told KCAL9’s Crystal Cruz.
As Cruz reports, Swager grew up as a boy, Michael, but always knew there was something feminine about her. As an adult, she learned that she was actually genetically female and began transitioning.
“I look at myself in the mirror and I go, ‘I see a female body,’ ” she said.
Two years ago, Swager, 32, notified district leaders and planned on returning to school a woman after this summer.
But after being outed recently, she went public.
“I was in a movie theater with my boyfriend, and some students walk in and start shooting pictures of me in a movie theater,” she said.
Cruz reports that the school has updated its web page with Amanda’s photo and notified students and parents last week.
Even though Swager is happier than ever, she’s heard some parents are concerned.
“The big uproar was all about, ‘You didn’t notify us way ahead of time so we can talk to our kids’ and I said, ‘What’s there to notify you about? If I was pregnant and had a miscarriage, I wouldn’t notify you that I had a miscarriage. It’s a personal issue,’ ” she said.
Sisters Jaylyn and Madison are OK with the teacher’s transition.
“If it’s what she wants to do, I mean, I’m not going to judge. It’s what she wants to make her happy,” Madison said. Swager said she is focused on doing her best job in classroom and is armed with and education to do so.
“I have a chemistry major, physics major and music performance major,” she said.
Meanwhile, Chino Valley Unified School District issued the following statement:
“Chino High School is aware of the teacher’s decision. It is a personal and private matter for the teacher. Therefore, the school and/or district cannot comment further. Student learning continues to be our top priority and classroom instruction will continue as normal.”
When I first came to college I met my new roommate. The first thing he said was “Hi! My name is Lee. I’m really feminine, but don’t worry. I’m not gay. It’s just that I never had a father in my life to be a male role model.”
Do these people who suddenly realize they are some other sex do their own DNA sequencing at home?
In the school lab?
Do they subcontract it out?
Or maybe they just self diagnose?
[As an adult, she learned that she was actually genetically female and began transitioning]
So, he learned that he was actually genetically XX when he had gone his whole life thinking he was XY? That’s a major screw-up by his doctors. And, why, if he was actually “genetically” a female, does he need to transition?
“I can’t figure out from this article what’s going on. Does genetically female equate to anatomically female?”
Yes and no. Some people are born with incomplete (or sometimes complete) parts of both and the parents flip a coin as to how they’re going to raise the kid.
These are the people who truly need the surgery to match their genetics.
I don’t think that it’s the usual fraud case of “I feel like a girl” so I’m going to pretend and everybody has to believe it.
Why is this kind of stuff so supremely important to progressives? They might reply, “Why is it important to YOU?” My reply would be that it is progressives who keep bringing this stuff up, emphasizing it, insisting on it, and shoving it in our faces. Left on their own, most conservatives would rarely even think about transgender issues. But libs seem obsessed with it.
Reprobate minds believe these lies quite readily.
No, this happens, and if you look at the “before” pictures, the facial features are feminine. If it’s a genetic abnormality, then nobody should be giving this teacher any grief.
Would not want to tee off an “it” that size.
Looks better as a girl. Usually this isn’t the case.
I’ll take her/his word that he/she suffered from a hermaphroditic condition. This does happen and is quite odd.
Presumably, she/he is XXY, which can result in both types of genitalia being present, often with the vagina subsumed into the body.
I’ve heard of plenty XXY.
No Adams apple, pre-hormone therapy is a clue to the genetics.
There was an African athlete, a runner, a couple of years ago that had the opposite condition: both genetically and anatomically ambiguous: but I believe the judges finally disqualified her from women's competitions because "she" had a male musculature as a result of this anomaly.
If I'm reading this correctly, this is apparently a case of an XX female with ambiguous development of the primary and secondary sexual characteristics, getting repair surgery. It's not the kind of radical "trans-genderism" that the gender deconstructionists are now foisting on us.
No idea. And it doesn’t matter. We’re being steamrolled.
Ummmm, what does Swager’s mom say? Swager’s dad say?
Therein lies the difficulty of upbringing as both Mum&Dud were told by the OB/Gyn waht was going on.
Me smells a feminista liberal.
Nature can play cruel tricks sometimes. If she has XX and no Y chromosomes, she is genetically female no matter what she has between her legs.
it is the excuse the homosexual lobby puts forward. It is a terminal birth defect.
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