Hormone treatments? We don't need no stinking hormone treatments! We're all girls, trust us!
Posted on 12/06/2014 9:57:09 PM PST by Morgana
Athletes in Minnesota’s public schools who say they identify as the sex opposite their biological sex have won the right to shower with athletes of the opposite sex, as well as share locker rooms and hotel rooms.
On Thursday, the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) approved criteria that will create eligibility standards for schools to let transgendered students on single-sex sports teams. Students would be allowed to be on a team of the opposite gender if parents or guardians, as well as a health care professional, sign written statements affirming a student's “consistent or sincerely held gender-related identity.”
A draft form of the policy said that hormone treatments for males attempting to become female must have begun before any males may participate in female sports.
The debate over whether to allow transgendered students, especially males, to play on opposite-gender teams and use their restroom, locker, and travel hotel facilities lasted for months, and went through several draft forms. The final vote by the MSHSL board was 18-2, with one member abstaining and one member opposing.
The board member who opposed the change was Emmett Keenan, who said that he was concerned that the religious exemption was not enough. Additionally, said Keenan, "I’m not sure we’ve heard enough yet about the safety of girls in relationship to a transgender male-to-female playing on girls’ sports teams.”
The board had been expected to approve a draft proposal in October, but delayed a final decision until this week.
The board's decision was opposed by The Child Protection League, a grassroots organization of concerned parents, which put out a full-page ad stating: “A male wants to shower beside your 14-year-old daughter. Are you OK with that?”
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Likewise, the Minnesota Catholic Conference has launched an online petition campaign listing numerous concerns with the policy. According to the Conference, the draft the board delayed a vote on "relies upon a contested view of gender identity confusion that could do students struggling with their gender more harm than good." It also violates Minnesota law related to "religious or conscientious objections" to the policy, says the Conference, and "could alter the competitive fairness in girls' athletics."
The Star-Tribune reports that in the meeting for the final vote, supporters and opponents packed the room. One supporter, OutFront Minnesota's executive director Monica Meyer, said, “All students want is a safe place to just be who they are. That includes in the classroom, on the court or field.”
League Executive Director Dave Stead said that while "a limited number of schools" told him that they "'don't like the idea'" of the new policy, discussions have led to those schools saying that they "'still don't like the idea, but I’m supportive of the initiative of trying to give us direction.'" Stead also said the transgender vote would not affect League membership.
At least a dozen states have similar athlete policies. In Minnesota, transgender eligibility will be decided by activities directors at individual schools, with an independent officer hearing appeals.
Um. No.
So the rights of the other 99.999% of the students to their privacy mean nothing and if they speak out for their privacy they’re haters.
I am starting to think this is one of those ‘gotta learn the hard way deals. Gonna suck for the girls though. Personally my daughter would be removed and I would leave the state. Staying there would only cause the homeschool police and CPS to visit you often after removal.
Some things are worth upheaving your life and fortune over. Thats one of them.
I am SO glad I don’t have kids in today’s depraved, perverted sex-obsessed, morally maggot-infested “schools”.
What about those who are physically a male but say they are a female but also say they are lesbians?
This is the white version of wearing your pants below your butt.
It’s stupid and should be considered indecent exposure.
One question though... do the Muslim girls wear burkas in the shower ?
In high school I went all the way to the principle, trying to get into home ec class.
I would have been the first male at the time, and I seemed to be the first male to figure out that it was the place where the females and the food were, I really wanted into that classroom.
Haha! Smart. I think that’s why I had some boys in home ec. It certainly wasn’t an easy A and a few of the guys were jocks.
There must be an awful lot of kids out there with this ‘disorder’, for them to pick up the rule book and make this kind of situation possible.
I would say this...it’ll generate enough frustration that a third locker room concept will be developed eventually....just for these kids.
We had a gay gay that did home ec. Our school was OK with any guy that wanted to take it back in the 80s, but unfortunately none of us never could get past the likely stigma of being looked at as ‘the other gay guy in home ec’ that would surely have followed.
But you clearly had great wisdom on the matter.
the only thing that comes to mind is
“I’m brian and so is my wife”.
Mischief.
Ha ha. Great minds think alike. I was the first girl to ever take Shop class in high school, circa 1975.
I was a jock as well, although I was called a bookworm, football, food, females and books were my focus, and that classroom with 30 females, had two of those.
so that’s when they started calling you a sheepdog, woof woof???
I always enjoyed the company of women. Now for the showers.
-Golusse
Hormone treatments? We don't need no stinking hormone treatments! We're all girls, trust us!
Before the end of this school year, I expect them to walk that new rule back a little bit. The Somali Muslim taxi drivers won’t want their children going to school in those circumstances, and will say so. Unlike with Christian and Jewish families complaining, which may produce results after their kids have already graduated, the Somalis will probably get what they want very quickly with profuse apologies. No, life is not fair, but there you are.
Oh no. No.
This world is getting crazier and crazier. I’m glad I’m not a teenager.
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