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Maine Commission Moves to Ban Gender Specific Bathrooms, Sports Teams in Schools
Fox News ^ | April 9, 2010 | Diane Macedo

Posted on 04/09/2010 6:26:22 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

The little girls' room won't be just for little girls anymore, if the Maine Human Rights Commission has its way.

The commission is taking heat over a controversial proposal to ban schools from enforcing gender divisions in sports teams, school organizations, bathrooms and locker rooms. It says forcing a student into a particular room or group because of his or her biological gender amounts to discrimination.

The issue came to light last year when the commission ruled that, under the Maine Human Rights Act, a school had discriminated against a 12-year-old transgender boy by denying him access to the girls' bathroom.

Now the commission aims to issue guidelines on how schools should deal with similar situations in the future. It would make Maine the first state to implement such guidelines for schools as young as preschool and nursery -- and even some private schools.

But not everyone in the state is on board with the current proposal.

Some school districts and organizations have criticized the commission for making its initial ruling without getting enough input from conservative groups, and then for coming up with proposed guidelines in what some described as closed-door sessions.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: atheismandstate; corruptingaminor; feminazis; homosexualagenda; indoctrination; kevinjennings; maine; naughtyteacherslist; safeschoolsczar; savethemales; sexism; sexpositiveagenda; sexualdiscrimination; sexualizingchildren; showandtell; teensex; unisex
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1 posted on 04/09/2010 6:26:22 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What is wrong with these people????????????


2 posted on 04/09/2010 6:28:09 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

Moral fiber going down the tubes!


3 posted on 04/09/2010 6:29:21 PM PDT by In God I trust
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To: Free ThinkerNY

When are you so-called “independents” or “moderates” or “conservative Democrats” or non-voters going to have enough?


4 posted on 04/09/2010 6:29:58 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The Maine Human Rights Commission belongs in The Maine Asylum for the Insane.


5 posted on 04/09/2010 6:30:09 PM PDT by devere
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

When are parents going to start telling these “Rights” commissions to go to hell, and NO, we will not answer to you or any lawsuit or any ruling that you put forth. If you want to use force to enforce it, then prepare to be met back with force.


6 posted on 04/09/2010 6:30:47 PM PDT by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“But not everyone in the state is on board with the current proposal”. Really?


7 posted on 04/09/2010 6:30:59 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
yeppers - they did this in MD for public bathrooms. It's an ongoing program to eliminate procreation as an individual right, and move species generation into a government sanctioned privilege! IMHO The first step is to eliminate the distinction between gender!
8 posted on 04/09/2010 6:32:09 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"It's about time!"


9 posted on 04/09/2010 6:32:37 PM PDT by twister881
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The article goes on and on with people debating it. Amazing!


10 posted on 04/09/2010 6:32:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

They are sick.


11 posted on 04/09/2010 6:35:58 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The PLANTATION Party is at it again (the DEMS) ....trying to make slaves of everyone)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There are going to be problems with this crap... no doubt.

LLS


12 posted on 04/09/2010 6:36:20 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

A nation gone mad!


13 posted on 04/09/2010 6:36:37 PM PDT by oldtimer
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

They are perverts for one thing and insane for a second thing.


14 posted on 04/09/2010 6:37:30 PM PDT by GeronL (There is only a "Happily ever after" for you if you're the one writing your own script)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

They are perverts for one thing and insane for a second thing.


15 posted on 04/09/2010 6:37:31 PM PDT by GeronL (There is only a "Happily ever after" for you if you're the one writing your own script)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Somewhere along the way someone missed the memo that there is a difference between boys and girls and decorum dictates the separation of the two, especially when it comes to shower and toilet facilities. Just say’n


16 posted on 04/09/2010 6:40:28 PM PDT by doc1019
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A twelve year old transgender boy? Puhleeze!

We used to call that hormones...

Seriously, this is preposterous. It’s time to take back the country. Starting at the local level sounds like a great approach.


17 posted on 04/09/2010 6:41:25 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; wagglebee

I was gonna post this i was in shock reading it,first thought it was from Onion...
We are so Fu**ed if we do not change things in Nov..


18 posted on 04/09/2010 6:41:27 PM PDT by GSP.FAN (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: J Edgar
FTA: "It says forcing a student into a particular room or group because of his or her biological gender amounts to discrimination."

Even using the word "gender" here is preemptively handing the victory to the perverts.

The word is "sex." Biological "sex." That would be male or female. We are a species that exhibits "sexual" differentiation.

"Gender," on the other hand, is primarily a grammatical term, and has no necessary connection with the two sexes. In languages which have gendered nouns, there's no sexual reason why el brazo (the arm) is masculine, but la piedra (the leg) is feminine.

"Gender" is fluid, subjective, and even whimsical. "Sex" is objective.

Say "sex."

19 posted on 04/09/2010 6:41:30 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("It's not what we don't know that's the problem, it's what we know that ain't so." - Will Rogers)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Is there problem with schools giving away condoms? Sending girls to abortion clinics without telling parents? They have had pro-sex (Just say yes) sessions at elementary schools and I fail to see any groundswell. The condoms for pre-teens are coming, and I wonder if eyebrows will even go up. Taxpayer funded Planned Parenthood says girls should learn to enjoy sex at 10 and they also oppose laws that would forbid HIV infected people from spreading it without telling their sex partners.

Bunch of sane people, huh?


20 posted on 04/09/2010 6:42:13 PM PDT by GeronL (There is only a "Happily ever after" for you if you're the one writing your own script)
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