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Surprise: High school students return after weekend to find male teacher now living as a woman
LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/27/15 | Kirsten Andersen

Posted on 03/27/2015 11:16:47 AM PDT by wagglebee

CHINO, CA, March 27, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Southern California’s Chino High School is facing outrage from parents and students alike after school administrators decided to keep secret a teacher’s plan to undergo a sex change in the middle of the school year.

The teacher in question, 32-year-old Michael Swager, showed up at work dressed and made up as a woman the morning of March 16, after eight years of teaching chemistry at the school as a man.  The teacher informed students that the 6’6”, 300 lb. man they once knew as “Michael” was now a woman, and told them they should call him “Amanda.”

School administrators had known for two years that Swager was planning to make the transition from male to female, but chose not to warn students or parents ahead of time. 

“Chino High School is aware of the teacher’s decision,” the school said in a statement.  “It is a personal and private matter for the teacher.”

Swager’s case is complicated in that the teacher was raised as a boy after being born with ambiguous genitalia, as well as a condition called Kallmann Syndrome, which blocks sufferers from going through puberty without chemical assistance. 

Because genetic testing was not widely available in the early 1980s, Swager’s parents were forced to choose for themselves whether to raise their child as a boy or a girl.  In the end, they decided the baby was a boy, and named him Michael, giving him hormone injections in his early teens to simulate male puberty. 

All the while, however, Swager felt as if “he” was really a “she.”  In high school and college, Swager avoided the hormone treatments and began dressing as a female.  Later genetic testing would reveal that Swager did indeed possess two X chromosomes, not the X and Y combination that makes someone genetically male.

“My parents chose the wrong sex,” Swager told the Chino Champion newspaper. “I look at myself in the mirror and I go, ‘I see a female body.’”

Upon learning the truth, Swager began taking female hormones to try and undo the effects of the male hormones she had been given as a young teen.  Outside of work, she lived as a female, dressing in feminine clothing and dating men.  But at work, she still presented herself as Michael – a man, albeit an androgynous one.

Swager said she originally planned to make her transition public after summer break in order to give her students and colleagues time to adjust.  But then her private life and work life began to collide.  After she changed her name to “Amanda Swager” on Facebook, a group of teens saw the page and confronted her about it at school.  Meanwhile, another group of students spotted her at the movies with her boyfriend during spring break and took video with their smartphones.  Swager decided it was time to come out, or risk being outed by the teens.  She notified school staff of her intention to take her situation public in a letter issued Thursday, March 12.  School officials kept mum, and Swager surprised the student body by showing up the following Monday wearing women’s clothing and calling herself Amanda.

The decision to keep Swager’s plans quiet upset both parents and students at the school, who said they would have liked more time to prepare for the change rather than leaving Michael Swager behind on Friday and coming back to Amanda Swager on Monday, without warning or explanation.

"In the end it's his choice. It's his life, but they should have at least said something about it so we could have known,” one student, Viviana Vasquez, told NBC-LA.

"On a Friday he was a man, on Monday he was woman," a parent told the network, speaking anonymously. One dad, Rusty, said he thought the abrupt transition would be disruptive to the learning process, as children struggle to understand what has happened to the popular teacher.  “They’re going to want to know why did the teacher did what he did.”

But Swager dismissed such concerns as intrusive.  “What’s there to notify you about?” Swager asked via CBS Los Angeles. “If I was pregnant and had a miscarriage, I wouldn’t notify you that I had a miscarriage. It’s a personal issue.”


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To: wagglebee

I’ll accept that this may be a real condition, but perhaps being a teacher may not be the best of professions for someone with said condition.


61 posted on 03/27/2015 12:04:38 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
I'm with you. I don't know anything more about this condition than what I've read here, but I do know that this person didn't need to work out their genetic gender issues in front of schoolchildren.
62 posted on 03/27/2015 12:06:15 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Leaning Right

hes a PSYCHOPATH..

he missed the REALITY BOAT

dosnt bother anyone?? Im certaain the students are by and large BOTHERED by this poor broken down freak

would the students DARE ask why he had himself mutilated??

teaching by EXAMPLE is exceptionally powerful.. and thus this sick MAN does not qualify as an APPROPRIATE teacher!!


63 posted on 03/27/2015 12:11:44 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Hoffer Rand
She has two X chromosomes. She is genetically female. You could make the case that all the years of living as a male were the lie.

I have to agree with this position. If you have a "Y" chromosome, you are a male. If you don't, you are a female. This person does not have a "Y" Chromosome, and is therefore Female, regardless of genitalia.

Now I would presume that this person has a uterus and ovaries, but I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere.

64 posted on 03/27/2015 12:12:45 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: wagglebee

I express no support for the school but this particular individual has been medically wronged and is simply doing the right thing to try to approximate what she truly is by birth.


65 posted on 03/27/2015 12:13:02 PM PDT by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: wagglebee

And guess what parents. You get to pay for his “fundemental transformation,” his salary, and his pension.


66 posted on 03/27/2015 12:17:22 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
Because genetic testing was not widely available in the early 1980s, Swager’s parents were forced to choose for themselves whether to raise their child as a boy or a girl

No, they weren't forced to choose. They were irresponsible and lazy and daddy probably wanted a boy. Tests for X and Y were available and the doctor should have told them to do the test. Common sense would have done the test.

67 posted on 03/27/2015 12:19:54 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Charles Henrickson; martin_fierro; wagglebee

You could say that hse lost some of hser ‘Swager’ in the process. :-\

A tragic case, actually, handled poorly all the way around... Of course, the “compassionate” Libs will fit this relatively unique case into their one-size-fits-all narrative to push their agenda.


68 posted on 03/27/2015 12:23:28 PM PDT by mikrofon (Weekend BUMP)
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To: mikrofon
Libs will fit this relatively unique case into their one-size-fits-all narrative to push their agenda.

Exactly! Just like with every other issue, this will now become the norm that will be used to justify all sorts of deviant actions.

69 posted on 03/27/2015 12:26:15 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: GeronL
Mentally ill, entitled perverts need to be kept far away from kids

Maybe you should read the story before shooting your mouth off, ..... oh wait I for got who I was addressing...

70 posted on 03/27/2015 12:29:55 PM PDT by verga (I might as well be playing chess with pigeons,.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Now that you’ve had your good rant, it would be useful to go back and actually read beyond the headline.

Clear that you did not.

She’s got 2 X chromosomes, no Y. You get what that means, right? She’s a girl.


71 posted on 03/27/2015 12:31:12 PM PDT by dmz
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To: greene66
I mean, I’m a guy, but if I had some weird intersex condition where I was genetically male, but outwardly female... short, full of curves, no whiskers, and basically ‘look’ completely female... hell, just hand over the damned bobbie pins and fingernail polish. I’d live my life how I looked, rather than try to chemically or surgically mutilate myself into some weird, androgynous freak. Yeah, when I’d get home, I might plop myself on the couch, light up a stogie, and watch “Combat” reruns, and cater to my inner (and celebate) dude-ism. But that would be it.

But this person did not naturally look outwardly masculine. She has Kallmann Syndrome, which (as the article notes) blocks the onset of puberty (and the resulting secondary sex characteristics). The only reason she had outwardly male characteristics was because she was artificially pumped full of testosterone and other male hormones during adolescence.

So, she did not "chemically or surgically mutilate" herself - she had surgery and treatments to correct surgicaly and chemical mutilations that happened years/decades earlier.

72 posted on 03/27/2015 12:35:02 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: MeshugeMikey
would the students DARE ask why he had himself mutilated??

Well, if you'd read the article, you would have seen that SHE was surgically and chemically mutilated as an infant and child, when she didn't have a say in the matter. She recently had surgery and medical treatments to correct the mutilations.

But sure, keep calling her a psychopath.

73 posted on 03/27/2015 12:37:51 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: wagglebee

And if the parents had chosen to go the female route on their ambiguously “gendered” baby after birth, it would have chosen to be a male about this same time.

Homos just want to change because they are reality contrarians.


74 posted on 03/27/2015 12:40:22 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: wagglebee

I know. That’s exactly what I meant. No need for you to reiterate as if I meant something else. Thank you.


75 posted on 03/27/2015 12:42:39 PM PDT by arasina (Communism is EVIL. So there.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

a “gender” switch...that is dressing as a member of the opposite sex is enough to INSPIRE me to call somrone a head case.

thats just REALITY!!


76 posted on 03/27/2015 12:51:55 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Hoffer Rand

I’m wondering what type of genitals this person has? The article didn’t say how that supposed birth defect was remedied, if at all, only that hormone therapy was used.

And all of this medical information is really just on the word of the person involved. There is no way for the press to check out whether there really is a genetic issue here, the guy/girl just SAID that was the case.


77 posted on 03/27/2015 12:56:44 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

a “gender” switch...that is dressing as a member of the opposite sex is enough to INSPIRE me to call somrone a head case.

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There is no gender switch here. She was born female.

thats just REALITY!!

RTFA.


78 posted on 03/27/2015 12:57:14 PM PDT by dmz
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
This is not your typical "transgender" situation. This is an actual case of someone actually growing up as the "wrong" gender.

Yeah, I noted that also.

Later genetic testing would reveal that Swager did indeed possess two X chromosomes, not the X and Y combination that makes someone genetically male.

This is pretty rare and is not a case of perversion as such.

However,the handling of the situation by the teacher and the school is horrible. The school administrators are cowardly incompetents and the teacher is a complete self centered jerk.

79 posted on 03/27/2015 1:02:53 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: dmz

the IDENTITY....his indentity....was altered...while he was an adult..and sadly a ROLE model.


80 posted on 03/27/2015 1:15:16 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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