Posted on 09/30/2014 2:26:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I probably would have missed this story were it not for Maggie Gallagher at The Corner. It seems that the good people on the appeal board considering a case at Atherton High School (part of the Jefferson County public school system) have determined that you can use the girls’ bathrooms, locker room and showers if you say you’re a girl. No physical required.
A transgender teenager, who was born male but identifies as a female, can continue to use a women’s restroom and locker room at a Jefferson County Public School.
In a 5-to-1 vote, an appeal board upheld Atherton High School’s nondiscrimination policy Thursday, which states the school must accept the gender identity each student asserts and shouldn’t discriminate on the use of school space on the basis of gender identity nor gender expression.
If you read the full report from the local press you will find that the appeals board is composed of teachers, two parents and a school administrator. The board rejected appeals from parents who somehow thought this might be a bad idea. (They were clearly haters of some sort, I’m sure.)
Even as complicated as things have gotten in our 21st century society, I understand that some issues have arisen for various non-traditional individuals when it comes to workplace and public restrooms. I’m not all that put off by having a third, gender-optional bathroom at large offices, airports and other such locations. But this is a school We’re talking about children. And more specifically – in the context of a high school – we’re talking about teenage boys. Now, I don’t want to disillusion anyone here, but I have some experience in this subject, having been a teenage boy myself back in the day. If you presented me with an opportunity to get into the girl’s shower when I was fifteen, would I have gone so far as to claim I was in the incorrect gender assignment?
I’m going to need some time to ponder that one. A comment from Maggie.
As I have said before, I’m pretty sympathetic to the idea everybody needs a bathroom. But what kind of a society has priorities like these?
That would seem to be the question. But in the meantime, I’ll just say that this is a terrible idea. I’m not sure which parents are sending their sons into this particular battlefield in high school, but going on nothing but personal experience and anecdotal history, the story doesn’t end well. Asking for a third bathroom and locker room in public schools – particularly in lower income areas – may simply not be an option. And this is no option at all.
Get your children out of the public schools (government indoctrination centers) - NOW!
I wonder if any of the five judges who voted for this have any teenaged daughters.
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Keep in mind that these are judges in the legal profession sense. Rather an appeals board.
Note from the article:
...If you read the full report from the local press you will find that the
appeals board is composed of teachers, two parents and a school administrator.
The board rejected appeals from parents who somehow thought this might be a bad idea. ...
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Let’s bend over backwards to pander to mental illness. It’s the new cause of the century.
Sorry, misspelled aren’t.
Should read:
Keep in mind that these aren’t judges in the legal profession sense.
Same crew of leftists running the rest of things. The usual would be Kings that think their opinions and $$$ are the modern gospel.
There isn’t any shadowy behind the scenes cartel of leftists running things. They are all very up front and open about who they are and what they want. The problem is that most people refuse to believe that they are living in a bad James Bond movie. They desperately want to believe the things they see on TV are the result of some secret plan that the SEALS will HALO jump into and save the day. But in faxct, nope. Just leftists following the script of the 1936 communist goals and having great success.
I honestly think that the Soros and Jarrett types have to be sitting there conversing on their cell phones saying “Just what would we have to do to get people to admit it?”
Because right now, no matter how blatant or obvious, they can, and do, do anything at all, no matter how evil or absurd, and we invent a magical reason that it (whatever ‘it’ is in a given situation), cannot possibly be what all evidence shows it is.
“So, when the girls refuse to shower with this freak will they now be guilty of discrimination and pursued by holder and the DOJ for hate crimes?”
The permutations of sexual harassment charges will be interesting.
I don’t think teenagers use the showers in high school anymore. School officials install them in the locker rooms for the same reason they serve Michelle Obama’s culinary delights on the lunch tray—just for show.
When I was in highschool I would have said anything to get in the girls locker room. Yea I’m a lesbian.
Rule 1. It had better be limp.
✔ BINGO!
“Shrinkage”?
Exactly so. We have lost.
If you are the hammer, strike.
I always new I was really a lesbian woman trapped in a mans body!!
DO I QUALIFY!!!!????
...but seriously, what could possibly go wrong???????
...waiting for enraged dad of female student, in rampage mode, in 5, 4, 3, ...
"But this is a school We’re talking about children. And more specifically – in the context of a high school – we’re talking about teenage boys. Now, I don’t want to disillusion anyone here, but I have some experience in this subject, having been a teenage boy myself back in the day. -- If you presented me with an opportunity to get into the girl’s shower when I was fifteen, would I have gone so far as to claim I was in the incorrect gender assignment"
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I wonder how many teenagers who were born male will identify as female for ten minutes a day at the end of gym class? I know I would have been tempted in high school.
You can blame everything on cold water...DON'T CHA KNOW!
LOL!
Holder resigned.
Heaven help us if he is replaced by anyone remotely like him.
You have named it. Our public schools are PRACTICING child abuse.
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