Posted on 11/20/2019 4:00:51 PM PST by Altura Ct.
The school board of District 211 in Illinois voted last week, in a 5 – 2 decision, to allow biological males into the female locker room at Palatine High School. The board said that all students should be “treated and supported in a manner consistent with their gender identity.” This “support” apparently necessitates obliterating the privacy and safety of every girl at the school.
A student named Nova Maday, a biological male who identifies as transgender, filed a lawsuit in 2017. The lawsuit came after a Department of Education mandate in 2015 forced Palatine High to allow boys like himself into bathrooms and locker rooms with girls. The school tried to strike a compromise, inviting the gender-confused males into girl-designated areas but setting aside a separate, private area for them to use. Maday was not happy with this compromise. He demanded access not just to the girls locker room, but to the exact same area where the girls change. His basic human rights are apparently violated in horrific fashion if he is not able to actually see girls get naked and himself get naked in front of them.
The school board found his deranged arguments convincing, and now every girl in the school must shut up and cooperate as biological males invade their private spaces. If you need any help in understanding why this situation is egregiously immoral and insane, a video from the Daily Herald may help. A Herald reporter interviewed Maday before and after the school board vote. They also interviewed a female student, Julia Burca. The contrast between their two reactions is stark. In fact, even if you don’t need help understanding why this is crazy, I’d still recommend following the link and watching the rather striking footage.
Maday, sporting a “Queen” shirt and long pink hair, celebrates the decision. He says he is “ecstatic,” calling the new policy a “great step forward.” Naturally, however, he still complains that it doesn’t go quite far enough. “It’s not everything we wanted,” he says, but it’s a “first step” towards “many more steps.”
The tenor changes dramatically with Julia’s reaction. Her voice shaking and tears in her eyes, she says that she is “uncomfortable that my privacy is being invaded.” She explains that she is a swimmer and therefore has to get changed “multiple times, naked, in front of the other students in the locker room.” Yet even in the face of this outrageous trampling of her basic privacy rights, she still attempts to be as generous as possible to the other side, acknowledging the school’s “obligation to all students” but arguing that she should also be accommodated.
Now, I don’t think the school board or Maday or the trans activists pushing this deserve even the slight concession she offers them. But I want to highlight the contrast between the two sides. Maday has no evident concern whatsoever for the feelings and rights of the girls at his school. He makes no mention of them and expresses absolutely no sympathy for them. Julia, on the other hand, even though she is completely and totally in the right and would be justified in screaming profanities into the camera, still exhibits more dignity and class than the other side.
This is not a complicated issue. This is a black-and-white, right versus wrong, good versus bad, issue. We have two competing claims to weigh. On one side, the claims and concerns of a small handful of gender-confused males who would prefer to change with girls because it would make them feel more like girls, even though they are not girls. On the other side, the claims and concerns of the girls in the school, who just want a private place to get changed and use the toilet.
One side is demanding that the whole system be reworked for their sake, and that the privacy of every girl in the school be abolished in the process. The other side is not trying to impose anything on anyone, is not asking for any special accommodation of any kind, is not asking for anything unreasonable, is not even demanding that gender-confused boys get changed with other boys. They could use private stalls. They could work out any other arrangement they want. All this side asks is that their private areas — the areas where they are in the most vulnerable and exposed state — remain private. There is no contest here. The scales are tipped 100% in favor of the girls.
At the very least, if you support forcing scared and humiliated young girls to change in front of boys, please do not pretend to care about women’s rights, especially women’s privacy rights. And please do not ever sermonize about the dangers of “rape culture” or “patriarchy.” You are willing to put a girl’s safety at risk and expose her to the shame and embarrassment of changing in front of boys all for the sake of the LGBT agenda. You are an enemy of women, not a supporter. At least be honest about it.
Post #41 per E. Pluribus Unum: The pendulum is going to swing so far back in the next ten years you are going to swear that homos don’t even exist anymore.
That was YOUR prediction. I disagree. FRiend, I know at heart we're on the same side, but as much as it sickens me, I believe we have only seen the start of far worse depravity.
True. We are talking about mentally ill people who allow this kind of thing to happen so why should we expect any kind sanity from them at all. They have already proven they are beyond help by allowing this to happen.
In the 50s, we lived in homes where Dad “had been to war.” They did not tolerate any such behavior. They got five of their neighbors and went to each school board members home and told them how they were going to put this behind them. Fifteen minutes a house.
My Dad was a Bronze Star Master Sgt. He could explain things.
The corrective power of a punch in the nose to enforce social norms needs to return to the square.
Yep ... repeal the 19th ....
Every girl in that school should call out sick. They should say frightened and emotionally scarred from he very thought of changing with a strange boy watching. And the school is bullying them. Then boycott. Get doctors’ notes for however long it takes the school board to change its decision.
you as a gender. yes, you did. maybe not you particular.
the demographic group that pushed for this tolerance and love and acceptance was female.
the idiocy for both sexes has to end, regardless. we cant let insane mentally ill people set this kind of legal and social policy for the vast majority of people who see it for what it is.
Back in the 60’s the courts decreed that woman reporters could go into the male locker rooms after a football game.
Playboy magazine had a cartoon of a male reporter, with the new law in hand, getting ready to enter the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders locker room.
Yep, a woman started this by wanting equal rights with male reporters.
Is that the sound of women’s rights groups I hear? Or crickets?
Here’s how they can protest. 1/2 the boys enter the girls locker room and 1/2 the girls enter the boys locker room ( no undressing). Refuse to return to classes unless they rescind that evil ruling. Eff them up right backatchya
It's parents must be proud of it!!
” 1/2 the boys enter the girls locker room and 1/2 the girls enter the boys locker room ( no undressing)”
A Marten Luther King inspired sit in.
Girls should just taunt and ridicule the hell out of the freak of natur4 and see if he gets wood.
Where you failed, I succeeded. Attend: my senior year in high school - such as it was - my buddy and I skipped school one morning after attending a particularly upbeat kegger the night before. Well, we had *ahem* some contacts with a few girls at a rival high school about fifteen miles away, we were hung over, we'd been sitting in his convertible in the school parking lot drinking since 7 AM, had nothing better to do, so we drove there. My buddy called the school secretary from a general store pay phone up the street, pretending to be one girl's dad, and they had her report to the front office to talk to 'Pop'. She immediately went all-in on the caper, and had us pull around to the back of the school, and said she'd let us in.
To the girls' locker room.
Oh, a good time was had by all. Unfortunately, the school principal was the brother of our gym coach, and one of the goody two-shoes types turned narc on us. The front office at our school knew who the culprits were before they even heard our names. They even tracked us down to our hideout - the basement of a buddy who played bass in a local band who was scheduled to perform that Friday, and damn near lost the gig because of us. Guilty by association. Well, that bought us 14 days of in-school detention, where we were more or less the featured jailbirds of the class that year. When we were called down to the principal's office the next morning over the PA system, the word of our exploits had already spread like wildfire, and students were literally hanging out the classroom doors, cheering us on as we walked The Green Mile. The vice principal was an old pervert, and told us that he was actually so impressed by the sheer balls of it, he wanted all the juicy details, and said if it weren't for the fact he had to do something administratively, he'd have let us walk. LOL!
One of those lovely birds happened to have an Instamatic camera with her and took some snaps to show her friends. To this day, in the bottom of some middle-aged woman's dresser drawer, there are pics of us to prove it. As for me? Toward the end of the school year, my English teacher held me over in class one day, and told me the reason why she gave me a D- on my final term paper, which I freely admit I wrote in about three minutes. She said she would have given me an F, but the teachers in the faculty lounge took an informal vote, and since I needed to pass English to graduate, they voted to pass me by the skin of my teeth because they didn't want to deal with me another year! ROTFLMAO My younger sister, three years my junior, said when she arrived her freshman year, all of the teachers I had - and a few I didn't - saw her last name and said, "Oh God, not another one!". Even my youngest sister - seven years younger - said that when she got there her freshman year, our Animal House exploits were still talked about. Nothing like being a local legend, at least for a while.
Very true...Time to fight the school board. We need to take over the school board. We aren’t going to be able to make schools safe for our kids, if we let liberals run the school boards. Do we need ‘Transgender History’ or ‘Global Warming Crisis’? Hell no, we need American History and Geology.
“The females demanded we love and support the sex crazies.”
Oh yes, indeedy, we women rose up en masse and demanded that any horrible thing that any perverted man wants to do to us, be allowed!
These bizarre and evil things that a bunch of left wing perverts want to do, female AND MALE, do not represent the wishes, wants, or needs of American women.
I am so sick of those man who think we deserve this. I hope every last one of you women haters who enjoy seeing women hurt like this, who feel we deserve this since we had the temerity to demand equal civil rights, have daughters some day.
So.... all girls should suffer merely for the few who might... that is might... get a scholarship. Yep. Good idea. Sell your soul for a discounted ride to another advanced leftest hellhole. Education is great. This loss is insufferable.
For PLAYMENTALLYILL...😋
Maybe feminists (female and male) own it, but the other 99% of American women do not own it. Let the feminists start up some feminist locker rooms and share them with men.
Well since men vote too, maybe normal men should join in the right. The people who support this sort of thing should be voted out of office, and people voted in who will reverse this nonsense, and impeach judges who order it.
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