Posted on 11/05/2015 3:28:31 PM PST by NYer
The United States Department of Education has given Palatine, Illinois School District 30 days to reach a “solution” that allows a “transgendered” boy who says he is a girl to shower with the girls. Failure to comply could result in the loss of federal Title IX funds.
The young man in question “identifies” as a girl. The school district has allowed him to play on the girls’ sports team. He is called “she” by school staff who refer to him by a female name. He says his “rights” are being violated because the school district asks him to change clothes behind a curtain rather than in front of the girls on the team, and to shower separately from them.
So. We have a teen-aged boy who says that he is a girl. He wants to play sports on a girl’s team and shower and change with the girls. If he is sincere, he’s mentally ill. If he’s not sincere, it’s possible that he’s found a trendy way to gain access to the girl’s locker room for the ultimate peep show.
I know this question is not politically correct, but do the actual girls have any rights in this?
Forcing them to change and shower in the presence of a young man is a psychological violation. It is abuse. Do the words “sexual harassment” ring a bell? How about misogyny?
Female athletes have fought long and hard to be taken seriously. They have had to overcome millennia of discrimination and overt prejudice. They deal with this still.
Now, all their hard-won gains stand to be wiped out. Young female athletes are being forced to choose between playing their sport and being subjected to what amounts to a violation of their most basic rights to privacy and dignity as young women, all because of trendy, politically-correct nihilism.
So far as I know, the “feminist” movement has been silent on this. But the overall issue has set off argument within feminist ranks.
For instance, the absurdity of Bruce Jenner being named “Woman of the Year†by a leading women’s publication raised the hackles of old-time feminist Germaine Greer. She rightly labeled the action “misogyny.†At the same time, other feminists support the faux woman movement.
I find the idea that any woman would support this attack on the female incomprehensible. Yet, sadly, it does not surprise me. The feminist movement that worked so hard to help female athletes win opportunities and respect is dead.
For a long time now, the feminist movement has served as the moral apologist for enterprises that were frankly and openly misogynist, such as purveyors of porn and those who pimp women’s bodies in prostitution. This happened because the feminist movement threw away every other issue in the fight to “save†legal abortion.
The misogynist response to any situation is to ignore the rights of women when those rights are attacked. When the misogynist in question is a conservative, this is excused by an appeal to some sort of hatched up economic imperative.
When the misogynist is liberal, we get a blizzard of phony “rights talk,†which, ironically, ignores absolutely the rights of the female by explaining that the womenfolk must accede their rights to this more pressing and noble need. That is what is happening now.
A feminist defense of female athlete’s rights would counter that. But I don’t expect it to happen.
It looks like it’s up to the parents of these young girls to defend their daughters. I’m sure they are proud of their daughters’ athleticism, and want to see them have opportunities to compete. What are these parents supposed to do? Do they pull their daughters from the team? Do they form other teams for the girls, outside of school?
These are serious questions with serious repercussions. Feminists — real feminists — fought hard to get Title IX money for women’s sports. There was a time, not so long ago, when all that money went to the males and the women athletes were consigned to using second hand and worn-out equipment with no respect and no support.
Are the hard-won gains that women athletes have made going to be tossed away because of a ruling by unelected Department of Education agency personnel who are not answerable to the people? How much misogyny are we willing to allow?
Perhaps the parents of the girls need to get attorneys and file suit. After all, last time I checked, women still have legal rights in these United States of America.
Of course, what really needs to happen is for Congress to step in and fix this. They can, you know. All they have to do is their jobs.
Ping!
The girls need to scream micro-aggression, and that they don’t feel like the shower is a safe zone any more. /S
Is he equipped? No? Well then un-equip him then.
Bailiff, whack his pee-pee.
I cannot believe how SILENT the FemiNazis are on this. THIS is an ACTUAL violation of these young women’s RIGHTS and not some of the MADE UP BS that they’ve been cramming down our throats for decades, now!
*Crickets Chirping*
Once again I am pleased with my family decision to home school our children.
Think about it. Bruce Jenner is named "Woman of the Year." Any boy putting on a dress at the senior prom is automatically voted "Homecoming Queen" ahead of all the actual girls in the class - because to do otherwise would be "intolerant.".
Meanwhile, the real women have to stand on the sidelines and take it.
Yet if congress would pass a bill to change things, Obama would veto it. Obama would never sign a bill which allegedly takes away rights from LGBT peoples.
As Rush Limbaugh says, most men are actually male lesbians.
This is absurd beyond belief, and if my daughter were ever to be on a team with someone like this and the same rules applied, she’d be off the team pronto - and then out of the school. I don’t care if I have to drive 50 miles each way, I won’t allow this utter immorality to affect my daughter’s dignity.
Reality and objective truth is gone in our culture amongst the left. It is gone! Um, in all sincerity, I am sure this I’ll person suffers from this delusion. But instead of helping him, we enable his sickness. Um, they don’t want you changing in front of the girls because you have a penis and testicles because GOD made you male. And what happens when this physically stronger BOY perhaps seriously injured someone pretending to be a girl on the team? That doesn’t matter. All that matters is for the left’s satanic view of sex to be imposed on the rest of us.
Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!
“Is he equipped? No? Well then un-equip him then.”
Exactly! If he’s gelded, he poses less of a threat.
Farm Tip: But he should KNOW that gelding is going to cause him to gain a LOT of weight, as in fattening him up for slaughter - and what trans-gendered young ‘woman’ wants THAT?
What a scam this kid is perpetrating!
Remember only the Republicans have a ‘war on women’ because they oppose abortion. This is NOT a ‘war on women/girls’ because it is Democrat sponsored and transexual (i.e. sex identity confused) friendly.
Hopefully, this will finally cause the ‘great unwashed masses’ to finally wake up.
This is evil.
“All that matters is for the left’s satanic view of sex to be imposed on the rest of us.”
They have made GREAT strides - but I’m pretty sure God wins in the end. ;)
I am pleased with your family decision, too! Wish I had been able to home school my step-sons, but it wasn’t my call.
Keep fighting the Good Fight! :)
Ya, hadn’t thought of that. So if Bruce Jenner, oops, I mean his girlie name, does that, will he balloon up?
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