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Title IX Strikes Again: The Girls' Locker Room Can't Be Just For Girls Any More
Forbes ^ | November 12, 2015 | George Leef

Posted on 11/12/2015 3:17:41 PM PST by reaganaut1

Those of us who oppose the expansion of governmental controls often get the retort, "You’re just using a slippery slope argument; the bad consequences you foresee are extremely unlikely to happen."

Ah, but predicted bad consequences often do happen. As evidence, I offer the following instance.

In 2013, a student in Palatine Township High School (Illinois) complained about sexual discrimination to the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The allegedly illegal "discrimination" suffered was because the school refused to allow the student, a male who “identifies” as a female, to use the girls' locker room.

The applicable 1972 statute forbids sexual discrimination by any school or college that accepts any federal funds–but surely that couldn't mean that a male student who "identifies" as female can’t be kept from changing and showering with the girls.

Oh yes it does.

Instead of dismissing the complaint, OCR took it very seriously. Under pressure from Washington, officials in the Palatine School District offered this accommodation: The student could use the girls’ locker room, but had to change and shower behind privacy curtains.

Not good enough! The requirement of using the privacy area was discriminatory; it singled the student out; it made him/her feel "ostracized." The ACLU attorney representing "Student A" declared, "It’s one thing to say to all the girls, 'You can choose if you want some extra privacy, but it’s another thing to say, ‘You, and you alone must use them.' That sends a pretty strong signal to her that she’s not accepted and the district does not see her as a girl."

Despite the many accommodations the school had made, including allowing Student A to play on girls sports teams, Student A still wasn’t satisfied.

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To: Clintonfatigued

Bill Clinton, sure. Jimmy Carter.

Hell, HW Bush at this point.


21 posted on 11/12/2015 5:26:23 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: mojito

The one that bashes feminists who oppose the award of “top paid female CEO” going to a transgender (man) and multiple awards to “female” Jenner whose only recent accomplishment is saying he’s a woman but still has a penis.
Because it is more important to give kudos to men trying to prove there’s no different between men and women by giving them women’s awards than actually restricting the prize to real women.


22 posted on 11/12/2015 7:08:06 PM PST by tbw2
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To: butlerweave

At first, I couldn’t see why “they” would want men around while girls get naked. Then, I realized: homosexuals want to have sex with boys, so, if they set children up in sexual situations, they can then demand their “right” to have sex.


23 posted on 11/12/2015 10:30:02 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Boiler Plate

One article I read about this said kids don’t shower after gym anymore.


24 posted on 11/12/2015 10:34:04 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: max americana
it'll be forced down even private schools eventually....hope not, but I see no stopping the gay cabal and the idiot cabal....

solution would be for normal girls to sue the school district, the state, the county and any other cockamamie organization that would force such insanity...sue and sue big....

25 posted on 11/13/2015 12:45:47 AM PST by cherry
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To: reaganaut1; JenB; Tired of Taxes

ping


26 posted on 11/13/2015 4:39:03 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: reaganaut1

I have been waiting all along for this to hit women’s team or individual sports. So here’s this genetic male competing against girls or women.

The bath room and locker room issues can be dealt with by spending money, but there is nothing that can offset the male’s genetic physical advantage. Sure there are some women who can compete physically head to head with men, but not the average.


27 posted on 11/13/2015 4:57:41 AM PST by finnsheep
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To: reaganaut1; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the "other" articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. Metmom holds both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail Metmom if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

28 posted on 11/13/2015 2:44:30 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: NetAddicted

For the most part that is true. However for people like myself it wasn’t really an option unless I wanted to go through the day soaked in my own sweat.


29 posted on 11/17/2015 8:13:54 AM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Boiler Plate

Go pro for girls locker room exploration

30 posted on 11/17/2015 8:16:08 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trumping.)
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