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Supreme Court blocks transgender bathroom choice for now
Reuters ^ | August 3, 2016 | David Ingram

Posted on 08/03/2016 3:31:41 PM PDT by Kaslin

A Virginia school board may temporarily block a student who was born a girl from using the boys' bathroom while a legal fight over transgender rights proceeds on appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court said on Wednesday.

The case is the first time the fight over transgender bathroom rights has reached the Supreme Court, and the subject arrived in the heat of a U.S. presidential election in which the makeup of the court is a central issue.

In a brief order, the country's highest court put on hold an order from a lower court that had permitted the high school student to use the bathroom of his choice.

Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of Gavin Grimm, 17, to challenge the Gloucester County School Board's bathroom policy, which requires transgender students to use alternative restroom facilities.

A lawyer for the school board declined to comment on the Supreme Court's order.

A lawyer for Grimm, Joshua Block, said he and his client were disappointed by the order and “disappointed that Gavin is going to have to begin another school year being stigmatized and separated from his peers as a result of this policy.”

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: education; homosexualagenda; lawsuit; schoolboard; scotus; unisex; ussupremcourt; virginia
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To: Kaslin
...Gavin is going to have to begin another school year being stigmatized and separated from his peers...

"His" peers?

She has no peers there...

21 posted on 08/03/2016 5:18:01 PM PDT by DBeers (�)
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To: immadashell
Such is the state of insanity....

All of the fake concern about victims of sexual abuse. A woman or girl who has suffered from sex abuse should not be subjected to the fear of men who are perverts being in the ladies room. Nor should any girl or woman with even an ounce of self-respect and modesty.

22 posted on 08/03/2016 5:27:37 PM PDT by grania
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To: Kaslin
lawyer for Grimm, Joshua Block, said he and his client were disappointed by the order and “disappointed that Gavin is going to have to begin another school year being stigmatized and separated from his peers as a result of this policy.”

Um... she is not stigmatized because of the policy. She is stigmatized because she is mentally ill. And those who humor the illness and encourage the delusions are not helping her at all.

There is no stigma in a girl using the girls' restroom. OTOH, if she were allowed to go into the boys' restroom, she would be EXTREMELY stigmatized.

23 posted on 08/03/2016 7:34:14 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Kaslin; Lurking Libertarian; Perdogg; JDW11235; Clairity; Spacetrucker; Art in Idaho; GregNH; ...

FReepmail me to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the SCOTUS ping list.

24 posted on 08/03/2016 8:40:38 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Kaslin
Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder;' Sex Change ‘Biologically Impossible’

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: ‘Transgendered Men Don’t Become Women,’ They Become ‘Feminized Men,’ ‘Impersonators’

The good news is most kids grow out of this: "Dr. McHugh further noted studies from Vanderbilt University and London’s Portman Clinic of children who had expressed transgender feelings but for whom, over time, 70%-80% “spontaneously lost those feelings.”

25 posted on 08/03/2016 8:40:46 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: namvolunteer
What should have happened: Since Hinckley was seen in the flesh in the act, he should been tried, convicted and hanged by his neck until sundown.

He was tried. The jury found him not guilty.

26 posted on 08/03/2016 8:50:29 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: I want the USA back

“...a student who was born a girl.”

Which is why she is being blocked from entering the boy’s room.

The tranny agenda is really about law fare—claiming phony victim status in order to go after the money.
But now they’re trying to claim inclusion in multiple victim groups.
She wants to be able to claim she’s not being protected from sexual assault as a girl, or from homophobes as a self-identified “male.”
She ended up hoist on her own petard.


27 posted on 08/03/2016 8:53:54 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: DBeers

“’His’ peers?
‘She’ has no peers there.”

Did you not see what was done there?


28 posted on 08/03/2016 8:58:35 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: Arm_Bears

What YOU said.

BUMP.


29 posted on 08/03/2016 9:10:00 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: Secret Agent Man
[perverted lunacy]


30 posted on 08/03/2016 10:06:29 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: manc

[23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”]

Ahh, the Denver airport.


31 posted on 08/03/2016 10:09:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Kaslin

“Supreme Court grants emergency order to block mentally-ill gender-confused student in Virginia from using boys’ restroom”

There. I fixed it for you... proceed.


32 posted on 08/04/2016 4:40:19 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: SaveFerris

THAT’S SICKENING.


33 posted on 08/04/2016 6:25:55 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: HomerBohn
The Framers’ once noble Scotus of Article III will determine if boys can use the girls bathroom.

The republic is quite gone.

34 posted on 08/04/2016 7:08:01 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: HomerBohn
>>Even agreeing to hear this perversion proves the corruption of the SCOTUS!

Opinion, Fallible and Uninspired; 1 each?

Meanwhile...

"finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

 
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
 
 

35 posted on 08/04/2016 8:34:04 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Arm_Bears
>>This is about 99%+ of the population being forced to accept the mental illness/perversion of less than 1% of the population.


"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time"
 
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
 
Same Ol' Ba'alshyte, different municipal outhouse.

36 posted on 08/04/2016 8:37:43 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: jacknhoo

Yet another reason that Reverend David Manning calls him “The long-legged Mack Daddy”.


37 posted on 08/04/2016 11:27:48 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: mumblypeg
A Virginia school board may temporarily block a student who was born a girl...

Born a girl, is a girl...

38 posted on 08/04/2016 11:37:21 AM PDT by DBeers (�)
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To: DBeers

Not disputing that.
Was referring to a possible, perhaps unintentional, pun.
Peers = pee-ers.
Seemed funny to me. Whatever.


39 posted on 08/04/2016 3:29:20 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: mumblypeg

LOL! I did nor see that.


40 posted on 08/04/2016 4:18:09 PM PDT by DBeers (�)
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