Posted on 03/02/2010 4:19:46 PM PST by Sopater
AUGUSTA, Maine - A lawyer for the Maine Human Rights Commission told members of the state board today that requiring all students to use "biology-based" restrooms and locker rooms in the state's schools is illegal and cannot be allowed to continue.
"Schools cannot discriminate against sexual identity or gender identification. Schools therefore cannot segregate students based on sexual orientation and identity," commission legal counsel John Gause said at today's commission meeting, where he was unsuccessful in convincing the board to adopt immediately a set of recommendations.
The commission's vote was 4-1 to hold a public hearing on the adoption of guidelines that would allow biological males to play on girls' athletic teams and use girls' restrooms and locker rooms if they proclaim their gender identity is female.
Today's public meeting was held before a capacity crowd in the main meeting room of the Senator Hotel in Augusta, Maine. The crowd was divided evenly between opponents and supporters of the proposed guidelines for students who have gender identity issues.
Speaking in favor of the guidelines, Gause said they should be adopted because they are how the 2005 Human Rights Law should be interpreted.
"It's the commission's job to interpret the Human Rights Law, and in many cases the courts defer to the commission on the interpretation," he said.
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What a bunch of perverts ~
These people are mentally ill.
Just when you think things can’t get any more idiotic......
Exactly. Once you accept homosexuality in public, there is no answer to public restrooms except:
1) Full access by everyone to all common restrooms, or
2) Make each restroom private.
A little thought-experiment:
1) Why don’t women want men in the Ladies Room?
2) How is that reasoning any different than why straight men don’t want gay men in the Men’s Room?
3) If straight men get their own restroom, where will homosexuals go? The Gay Room? What public health problems will there ensue?
Homosexuality, no matter your opinion of its legal, biological, or moral situation, poses practical problems of inappropriate sexual attraction in public restrooms.
I wonder if this comes to past, homeschooling in Maine grows by leaps and bounds.
There’s really no practical way to deal with it. Who’s to say a pervert won’t just claim sexually identify as a woman so that he can have access to the little girls room in the schools, parks, restaurants, etc.?
It just can’t work.
Excuse my language, but what fart brain thought this one up.
When I was 16 I would have said anything to get into the girls locker room. You betcha!
Oh, those poor worms ~ somebody help them, please!
Pretty soon the Leftists are going to say that simply being a man or woman is discrimination.
Yep. And there will be a bunch guys on the female wrestling and swim team too.
Of course it’s discrimination. What’s his point?
They never were. This is the result of allowing activists the control of the language - "sex" is now defined (if at all) as the physical equipment one was born with, which is how these rest rooms were segregated. "Gender," on the other hand, has a definition that is plastic; here it is defined as "orientation," meaning to which sex the individual is attracted, and "identity," meaning whatever the individual's imagination allows.
In other words, persons of sufficiently advanced political thought in the matter find the segregation of bathroom by sex as irrelevant as by eye color. Unfortunately the rest of us are forced by law to live in their fantasy world. Having twisted the word "sex" out of existence the word "freedom" cannot be far behind.
Once again the extremist thugs are forcing their will on all of the community. For all the freepers, take note, if you have a lackadaisical attitude toward the gay agenda, if you think that they will have no impact on your life, think again. These people are very disturbed and they do not respect your rights so why do you constantly make excuses for them?
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