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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.
Why, that isn’t an erection, the water is just cold.
...isn’t cold water more correctly associated with ‘shrinkage’...?
I don’t understand why a bunch of boys don’t claim to be girls and play girls sports so they can get college scholarships. You know that is coming soon...
...that came a long time ago...and in the school district I’m in went away pretty quickly...boys wanting to play field hockey backed off when informed they’d have to wear the same skirts that the girls wore...and then someone with some power and some sense ended intersexual athletics, happily removing the ridiculous spectacle of girls wrestling with boys...
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That's why it was so important to get everybody internet access asap. Along with television, it is become a destroyer of culture, norms, standards and identity.
post of the decade Norm!
And hate to say it, but no, the beloved military is not going to stop the march to moral death. Neither will gun owning 2nd Am loving men either.
The part about Jarrett (and I’ll add the Pres and AG)is so true. They have to be amazed at the stupidity and the lack of balls from Middle America regarding the commoners ability to delude themselves that everything is OK today. Or that things will get better if we elect some more Republicans.
Holder’s Legacy will live long and strong for years to come. You just can’t undue what he has done without needed bloodshed. How much blood? Only God knows.
“That’s why it was so important to get everybody internet access asap. Along with television, it is become a destroyer of culture, norms, standards and identity.”
Yep, often thought that if I had one wish it would be for TV to disappear. Done so much harm. t has done so much to tear down what was once a magnificent culture. It has spread envy and jealousy which plays into the leftist agenda. People see others living so much better than they do. Shoved in their face all the time. They see aberrant behavior that they would never encounter in their own little town. Etc., etc.
Wrong. If a "transgender" born male still has a "Y" chromosome, then he's still a guy.
No matter how you mutilate your body you CANNOT change your sex.
Oh my gosh - of course normal people would think any of that was ridiculous, but you just never know how parents feel either. I can see some crazy Dad wanting his daughter to wrestle - just insane. I think your school district made a good decision.
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