U.S. appeals court upholds Florida high school's transgender bathroom ban

Reuters ^ | Dec 30, 2022 | Jonathan Stempel

[Roadrunner383]

In a 7-4 vote, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the St. Johns County school board did not violate the U.S. Constitution or federal civil rights law by requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex.

The policy had been challenged by Drew Adams, a transgender man who sued in 2017 after being barred from using the boys' bathroom when he attended the Allen D. Nease High School in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He had instead been required to use girls' or gender-neutral bathrooms.

[Roadrunner383]

A win for common sense. Biological boys use boy's bathrooms, bilogical girls use girl's bathrooms.

[ridesthemiles]

SHUT down the bathrooms inside.

Install portable toilets-—one person space only.

[nascarnation]

[whitney69]

I’m not sure I see a problem here. As long as it is illegal to expose genitals in public to opposite sex and children, then it is going to be illegal to expose genitals in a bathroom with opposite sex and children. Indecent exposure— sometimes called “public indecency” or “public lewdness”—is a crime that involves intentionally exposing one’s private parts in public. Laws banning indecent exposure vary throughout the country but share many similarities. The crime can be a misdemeanor or felony depending on the circumstances, and can result in time behind bars and registration as a sex offender. And let’s face it, an ounce of prevention.....

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[Nathan _in_Arkansas]

We shouldn’t have to do this, but here’s a solution: Label the bathrooms “Penis” and “No Penis.” Gender neutral, biology based. Yes, that equates to “Male/Men and Female/Women,” but somehow society has screwed up that basic fundamental of life.

[Dilbert San Diego]

This may become an important legal precedent.

All this transgender business is going to get to the Supreme Court someday. Legal precedence such as this will become part of legal filings , that will be part of the eventual Supreme Court cases.

[Bulwinkle]

No amount of surgery, no amount of hormone therapy changes a male into a female.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Then again, we should not be compelled to upend major social norms, just to make a tiny number of confused transgender students and activists happy.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Why not? We’ve done just that for homosexuals.

(just kidding)

[PerConPat]

Concur...However, an overfed, under worked, constantly entertained, basically safe and increasingly dumbed down majority can't be bothered with proven, beneficial social norms.

[TexasGator]

All seven judges in the Atlanta-based appeals court majority were appointed by Republican presidents, including six by Donald Trump, while the four dissenting judges were Democratic appointees.

[bk1000]

“Label the bathrooms “Penis” and “No Penis.””

That is still acquiescence to the insanity. Do not ever surrender to the language of the left. Never say “biological male/female. That implies there are other kinds.

[Chode]

make them use the teachers restrooms...

[kiryandil]

The policy had been challenged by Drew Adams, a transgender man girl

fixed it

[kiryandil]

Just don't say it in public if you have a job you want to hold on to.  

[NurdlyPeon]

Label the bathrooms “Penis” and “No Penis.

At the bathroom down by the marina, they label them as "inboard" and "outboard".

[dayglored]

[Sacajaweau]

the purpose of all laws is to protect. giving trans superior power over another is not protecting.

[goodnesswins]

I like XX and XY...it Educates as well as informs

[matthew fuller]

The article, as written, makes no sense to me. " He had instead been required to use girls' or gender-neutral bathrooms."

The article implies that it is a "MAN". Also here: "a transgender man"