Posted on 10/23/2015 9:28:43 PM PDT by 100American
http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2015/10/23/a-few-transgender-students-tie-school-districts-in-knots-over-locker-rooms/?subscriber=1
Across America, public schools are faced with a challenge almost unheard of a generation ago: dealing with a student population that isn't sorted neatly into boys and girls.
A small but growing number of students and their families are demanding that schools make accommodations for transgender youths, who were born with the body parts of one gender but identify with the other.
Which bathrooms should they use? Should they play for the boys sports teams or the girls? Where should they change clothes and shower after gym class or athletic events?
Palatine-based Township High School District 211 is prepared to lock horns with the federal government over those questions, which the district believes should be handled at the local level. The U.S. Department of Education has said District 211 is violating the Title IX gender equality law by not allowing a transgender student who identifies as a girl to use the girls locker room.
The student, who has lived as a girl for several years, plays on a girls sports team but has been using a private dressing area near the gym.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint on her behalf, alleging discrimination. The ACLU's John Knight says his client should be treated "like any other girl," and the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights agrees.
By fighting that ruling, District 211 risks losing federal funding -- last year, it amounted to about $6 million -- and running up a big legal bill. But Superintendent Daniel Cates says the district has decided to challenge the ruling because Education Department has overstepped its authority.
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Especially since so many "solutions" turn into rats nests of epic proportions - to be built upon by even more "solutions"...
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Well there Ya go. Switch door signs. The private dressing area now becomes the girl’s locker room and the private dressing area is designated for those with female genitals who feel “ unsafe” in the girls locker room.
” unsafe” being the new buzzword
Entertaining any of this in any remotely serious way is itself giving away the side.
X-Ray machines are your FRriend!
:-)
Must be an X-Ray app somewhere out there for us to use on our phones/tabs/guns.
:-)
We've been hijacked from reality by the Feds and the worse thing is we've paid them to hijack us. At its very deep core, this is a form of contempt for the people by the Feds. They know the ruling is absurd, but they know their power is supreme. Some people, given power, like nothing more than to humiliate those under them because they themselves are insecure in their power.
“Back in my day there were no such thing as “transgender” at least not openly, if so they would have been called queers.”
[LOL] Evidently you led a very sheltered life. For the sake of historical accuracy, see some of these sources describing some of the historical figures stretching back into ancient times. Note how they include soldiers, diplomats, royalty, major political figures in their public duties, artists, writers, and more. Note, these sources barely scratch the surface of the famous and infamous, and they do not even touch upon the multitude of lesser known people through history. Be sure to watch the WWII movie at the end of the list.
History of cross-dressing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cross-dressing
History of transgender people in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_transgender_people_in_the_United_States
Portrait mistaken for 18th-century lady is early painting of transvestite
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/06/portrait-18th-century-early-transvestite
Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon
Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon (28 November 1661 – 31 March 1723), styled Viscount Cornbury between 1674 and 1709, was Governor of New York and New Jersey between 1701 and 1708, and is reputed to have had a predeliction for cross-dressing while in Crown office.
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Reputation
The purported portrait of Lord Cornbury from the New York Historical Society
Viscount Cornbury came to be fabled in historical literature as a moral profligate, sunk in corruption: possibly the worst governor Britain ever appointed to an American colony.[1] The early accounts claim he took bribes and plundered the public treasury. Nineteenth century historian George Bancroft said that Cornbury illustrated the worst form of the English aristocracy’s “arrogance, joined to intellectual imbecility”. Later historians characterise him as a “degenerate and pervert who is said to have spent half of his time dressed in women’s clothes”, a “fop and a wastrel”. He is said to have delivered a “flowery panegyric on his wife’s ears” after which he invited every gentleman present to feel precisely how shell-like they were; to have misappropriated £1,500 meant for the defence of New York Harbor, and, scandalously, to have dressed in women’s clothing and lurked “behind trees to pounce, shrieking with laughter, on his victims”.[2]
Cornbury is reported to have opened the 1702 New York Assembly clad in a hooped gown and an elaborate headdress and carrying a fan, imitative of the style of Queen Anne. When his choice of clothing was questioned, he replied, “You are all very stupid people not to see the propriety of it all. In this place and occasion, I represent a woman (The Queen), and in all respects I ought to represent her as faithfully as I can.” It is also said that in August 1707, when his wife Lady Cornbury died, His High Mightiness (as he preferred to be called) attended the funeral dressed as a woman. It was shortly after this that mounting complaints from colonists prompted The Queen to remove Cornbury from office.[3]
In 2000 Patricia U. Bonomi re-examined these assertions and found them to be questionable and based on very little evidence. Three colonials, all members of a faction opposed to Cornbury, wrote four letters between 1707 and 1709 discussing a rumour that Lord Cornbury wore women’s clothes. There are also some early documents that might be cited to support charges of having taken bribes or misappropriated government funds, but there the contemporary evidence ends.[4]
A portrait possibly of Lord Cornbury dressed in women’s clothes which hangs at the New York Historical Society. Philip Davenport-Hines, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, thinks the portrait accurately depicts Cornbury and pronounced Bonomi’s findings inconclusive.[5]
24 Transgendered Historical Figures
https://lockerdome.com/7469898657957953/7912829374188052
This Is the Army - 1943, starring Lt. Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale (Gilligan’s Island), and others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRsniPryS0s
“I guess the girls will have to dress and relieve themselves outside where they can have some privacy.”
Talk about privacy, I remember walking into a very large public men’s room in Paris, France some 40 years ago. After walking around the partition and seeing the room, I stopped. Along the left wall about 25 feet long was a pipe which was slowly dribbling sheets of water down the wall and into a gutter at the bottom of the wall to serve as one wall length urinal. Along the right wall were many toilets and bidets, and they did not have any partitions whatsoever for privacy. If you used the toilet or bidet, you had to haul your britches down and display your butt cheeks for everyone in the room to see. Everyone included the charwoman who moved around the men’s room all day long, all nightlong, every day of the week with a mop and bucket. So much for privacy in Paris....
By their equipment shall ye know them.
If they’ve got the original equipment, they go to the original destination. If they’ve had a chopitoffame or an addadicktome, they go to the other.
I wonder if they have an exchange to trade for body part transplants?
How is this not 1000 times worse? Liberal logic boggles the mind!
As if there weren’t enough reasons.
"As a practical matter, they have less cause to be self-conscious in the locker room. While their parents may have been traumatized by mandatory group nudity, today's students rarely undress fully or shower at school. "
So kids in school today don't take group showers after gym class or practice anymore?
That's definitely a change from my school days.
Indeed!
Indeed!
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