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'Biology-based' restrooms called 'discrimination'
WorldNetDaily ^ | March 01, 2010 | Michael Carl

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.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: arth; homeschool; homosexualagenda; publicschool; unisex
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Anyone with half a brain has seen this one coming. What shocks me is that "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." How can you get 4 out of 5 people in a room to agree to that unless you have very carefully stacked the deck?

Follow up to these two posts:

Maine forcing schools to allow boys and girls to access opposite-sex restrooms

Maine considers banning biology-based restrooms
1 posted on 03/02/2010 4:19:46 PM PST by Sopater
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To: metmom

ping


2 posted on 03/02/2010 4:20:00 PM PST by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: Sopater

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3 posted on 03/02/2010 4:20:09 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference.)
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To: Sopater

Any restrooms are called somewhere to P...


4 posted on 03/02/2010 4:21:26 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Sopater

What a bunch of perverts ~


5 posted on 03/02/2010 4:21:43 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Sopater

These people are mentally ill.


6 posted on 03/02/2010 4:21:46 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Sopater

Just when you think things can’t get any more idiotic......


7 posted on 03/02/2010 4:25:44 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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To: Sopater

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.


8 posted on 03/02/2010 4:26:07 PM PST by Uncle Miltie
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To: Sopater

I wonder if this comes to past, homeschooling in Maine grows by leaps and bounds.


9 posted on 03/02/2010 4:27:07 PM PST by goldi (')
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To: muawiyah
Just a bunch of lawyers whose brains have been taken over by mexican butt-worms.
10 posted on 03/02/2010 4:27:23 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Uncle Miltie

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.


11 posted on 03/02/2010 4:31:28 PM PST by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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Really, Let's give The Hormone raging Teen Boys a legal way to hang out in the girls locker room.

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!

12 posted on 03/02/2010 4:33:22 PM PST by Blackhawk (God said it, I believe it, That settles it.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Oh, those poor worms ~ somebody help them, please!


13 posted on 03/02/2010 4:33:32 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Sopater

Pretty soon the Leftists are going to say that simply being a man or woman is discrimination.


14 posted on 03/02/2010 4:34:23 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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What I see coming is individuals restroom for one person at a time, sorta like you see in hospitals. I am all for it!
15 posted on 03/02/2010 4:36:14 PM PST by rawhide
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Yep. And there will be a bunch guys on the female wrestling and swim team too.


16 posted on 03/02/2010 4:36:20 PM PST by John.Galt2012 (I'll take Liberty and you can keep the "Change"!)
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To: Sopater

Of course it’s discrimination. What’s his point?


17 posted on 03/02/2010 4:41:13 PM PST by DManA
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Schools therefore cannot segregate students based on sexual orientation and identity...

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.

18 posted on 03/02/2010 4:42:35 PM PST by Billthedrill
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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

So if a highschool's girl's baseball team has a 15-0 record because 3 of the players are biological males, then the other teams have no basis to complain, right?
19 posted on 03/02/2010 4:45:55 PM PST by Signalman
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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?


20 posted on 03/02/2010 4:50:45 PM PST by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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