Office of Civil Rights says disguised boy has right to shower with girls

American Thinker ^ | 11-3-2015 | Ed Straker

[servo1969]

The Department of Education's office of civil rights says that a disguised boy has been discriminated against because he is not allowed to shower naked with girls.

Federal education authorities, staking out their firmest position yet on an increasingly contentious issue, found Monday that an Illinois school district violated anti-discrimination laws when it did not allow a transgender student who identifies as a girl and participates on a girls’ sports team to change and shower in the girls’ locker room without restrictions. 

The Education Department gave 30 days to the officials of Township High School District 211 to reach a solution or face enforcement, which could include administrative law proceedings or a Justice Department court action. The district could lose some or all of its Title IX funding. 

In a letter sent Monday, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education told the Palatine district that requiring a transgender student to use private changing and showering facilities was a violation of that student’s rights under Title IX, a federal law that bans sex discrimination. The student, who identifies as female but was born male, should be given unfettered access to girls’ facilities, the letter said. 

The boy should be given unfettered access to naked girls.  What's confusing about that?

The district said she was allowed to change inside the girls’ locker room, but only behind a curtain. The student, who has not been publicly identified, has said she would probably use that curtain to change. But she and the federal government have insisted that she be allowed to make that decision voluntarily, and not because of requirements by the district.

[patriotUSA]

Sometimes, quite often actually, it seems like Satan is winning. But he doesn't.

[MortMan]

They say that a transgender has to be treated in accordance with his or her feelings, while doing so specifically ignores the feelings and sensitivities of those around the transgender individual.

That inconsistency tells one much about the agenda being driven here.

[NonValueAdded]

I'd return the Title IX money covered in bird chit.

[B212]

what we have here is, too many right dominated brain managers and maybe a touch of too much estrogen....

[goldi]

Parents should pull their daughters out of there and turn it into an all-boys’s school.

[silverleaf]

I guess the muslim girls are fine with this

Wait, none complained yet?

Give it a couple years

[Bigg Red]

+1

[silverleaf]

Or give her a no shower excuse

I’m sure you could find the wording to get her permanently exempted from showering

” locker room micro aggression?”

[ETL]

Boy, is this present administration sick. How do you turn back insanity?

Recall who Obama had hired to be his so-called "Safe School Czar"...

(Obama's former "Safe School Czar" Kevin Jennings)

From the Washington Times...

EDITORIAL: At the president's pleasure
'Safe school czar' encouraged child sex with an older man
September 28, 2009

A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an "older man." At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama's "safe school czar". It's getting hard to keep track of all of this president's problematic appointments. Clearly, the process for vetting White House employees has broken down.

In this one case in which Mr. Jennings had a real chance to protect a young boy from a sexual predator, he not only failed to do what the law required but actually encouraged the relationship.

According to Mr. Jennings' own description in a new audiotape discovered by Fox News, the 15-year-old boy met the "older man" in a "bus station bathroom" and was taken to the older man's home that night. When some details about the case became public, Mr. Jennings threatened to sue another teacher who called his failure to report the statutory rape "unethical." Mr. Jennings' defenders asserted that there was no evidence that he was aware the student had sex with the older man.

However, the new audiotape contradicts this claim. In 2000, Mr. Jennings gave a talk to the Iowa chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, an advocacy group that promotes homosexuality in schools. On the tape, Mr. Jennings recollected that he told the student to make sure "to use a condom" when he was with the older man. That he actively encouraged the relationship is reinforced by Mr. Jennings' own description in his 1994 book, "One Teacher in 10." In that account, the teacher boasts how he allayed the student's concerns about the relationship to such a degree that the 15-year-old "left my office with a smile on his face that I would see every time I saw him on the campus for the next two years, until he graduated."

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/28/at-the-presidents-pleasure/

[DungeonMaster]

I may look like a middle aged man but I identify as a teenage female gymnast, so that’s where I’ll be showering.

[JEDI4S]

We have them already. They call themselves Occupy Wall Street!

:-)

I wish I had known about this “issue” back when I was in school. However the nuns and a combination of the iron pointer and the yardstick would have ruined what would have been a perfect plan! :-)

[American in Israel]

Chopping it off would remove a lot of offense, oh, you were talking about funding.

[ETL]

I may look like a middle aged man but I identify as a teenage female gymnast, so that's where I'll be showering.

[kelly4c]

Haha I rarely LOL but that tickled the old funny bone.

And if someone identifies as a spoiled child they should be able to whine and cry to their heart’s content too. I mean, some days it’s hard for me to put my big girl pants on and I just want to be all whiny and immature. I should be allowed to go with my “feelings” and not hold back:)

[ETL]

“What if a person identifies as a dog. Would they then have the right to pee and crap in the street?”

...and go around sniffing butts.

[Doomonyou]

Then they point and laugh.

Then all the girls get suspended and have to go to 10 weeks of re-education classes to "get their minds right."

[DungeonMaster]

MY EYES!!!!

[Pollster1]

I’d guess that half of teenage boys will now “identify”. What normal teen boy would pass up that chance?

The real-world solution is likely to be that schools eliminate shower facilities. That way they are not “discriminating” against peeping toms or against the mentally ill, and they can avoid these frivolous lawsuits. As usual with liberalism, everyone loses, but we all lose equally.

[gettinolder]

You raise a point.

What’s to stop convicts to “self identify” as the opposite sex while incarcerated?

[ETL]

I'd guess that half of teenage boys will now "identify". What normal teen boy would pass up that chance?

I wonder how this would work out at the local bar on free drinks for ladies nights?