Complaint filed in case of 6-year-old transgender girl

Colorado Springs Gazette ^ | February 26, 2013 | Carol McGraw

[Washi]

Six-year-old Coy Mathis explains her predicament in the simplest of terms:

“I want to go to school. We play games at recess,” the first grader said Tuesday.

But the transgender girl is being home schooled this semester because she has been denied access to the girls’ bathroom at Eagleside Elementary School in Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8, her parents say.

New York-based Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund attorneys said they filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division on behalf of her parents Kathryn and Jeremy Mathis, saying Coy has been discriminated against.

Forcing Coy to use a different bathroom than the girls, “is targeting her for stigma, bullying and harassment,” said Michael Silverman, TLDE attorney and executive director. He said that Colorado law prevents schools from discriminating against transgender students.

[Jeff Winston]

THE Church. And no, I’m not talking about Catholicism.

[RedHeeler]

Jeff Winston: What are your, moral dilemmas? Let’s ante up. You call first bid.

[Eagles6]

How does an 18 mo even know what a girl is? At 4 yrs old he wants a sex change operation?

Sorry folks, your son is a boy. Whoever is filling his mind with this BS is a child abuser and HE is probably being molested by a homosexual.

You cannot cure mental illness by mutilating a healthy body

[ApplegateRanch]

>>>It’s bad enough that this child’s parents decided to ruin his life, but that a medical ‘professional’ would agree to be a part of it is just stupefying to me.<<<

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This guy was a pediatrician.

Abdel Aziz Ali Abdulmajid al-Rantissi23 October 1947 – 17 April 2004) was the co-founder of the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

Rantissi was Hamas’s political leader and spokesman in the Gaza Strip following the Israeli killing of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin in March 2004.[1] Like most Hamas members, Rantissi opposed any compromise with Israel and called for the creation of a state of Palestine (including the whole of the State of Israel) through military exertion against the Jewish state.

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And this guy is also a doctor/surgeon:

Mahmoud al-Zahar (born 1945) is a co-founder of Hamas and a member of the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip.

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And this guy is another “medical professional”:

Dr. Thabet Thabet, a pediatrician and leader of Yasir Arafat’s Fatah. ... Thabet was also responsible for numerous other shooting attacks by Fatah activists in the area, and was involved in planning bombing attacks.

[Ann Archy]

Kids have vivid imaginations.....my firend's VERY blonde, blue eyed kid INSISTED he was BLACK.....for months and months!!!

He probably dressed in the girl's clothes to get ATTENTION!! These Parents are scary.

[Ann Archy]

The fact that there is a TRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE group makesme sick to my stomach.

[SeminoleCounty]

A six year old is not mature enough to make such a decision whether it is Transgendered. This is nonsense

Those parents are absolute Froot Loops.

[Pollster1]

The real problem is that parents, and that cannot be fixed. There have always been bad parents. They have always raised disturbed children, who grow up to be disturbed adults. Trying to fix that will, like most government intrusions, make the problem even worse. I feel sorry for the poor little boy, but it’s too late to intervene.

As for the political and legal problem, that’s easy to fix. Post new restroom signs at the school, with the first word in large letters and the rest as fine print:

BOYS - and “girls” who have dangly parts

GIRLS - and “boys” who do not have dangly parts

Problem solved. There are signs on the restrooms that are clear to the kids with normal parents, that are understandable to this poor abused boy, and that should satisfy the predatory parents and lawyers who are willing to ruin a child’s life to make a political point or to make a few dollars.

[raybbr]

No. I'm pretty sure that his parents convincing him that he's "transgender" so that they can be the center of attention for all of their "progressive" friends is what's targeting him for stigma, bullying and harassment. Selfish, stupid pricks.

I'm beginning to wonder... Are these people being paid to do this? Are they willing to destroy their children's life for some reward from a Soros-like endowment just to create societal turmoil and destroy the country?

[9YearLurker]

The view of transgender activists is that it is child abuse if young children aren’t taught not only that they can grow up to love whatever sex they’d like, but also that they can choose to grow up as whatever sex they’d like.

Seriously.

[MissEdie]

I agree with you. My three year daughter asked me if she could become a boy since her best friends area boys. I said no, God made you a beautiful, smart girl and you are going to stay that way. She then asked me if it was ok for her to play in the mud with the boys while she wore dresses, and i told her that was why God created washing machines.

[MissEdie]

Your daughter reminds me of myself when I was little :0)
Unfortunately I think this child’s parents are fishing for a lawsuit.

[Graybeard58]

The idea of him using the girls restroom or locker room would have gotten the school sued if not worse.

Would have got his butt kicked on a daily basis at my school.

[ilovesarah2012]

ROFL

[RedBallJet]

"I'm not gay, I'm nothing yet!"

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Below is text copy/pasted from a child development site:

13 to 18 months
Now your child is using one or more words, and she knows what they mean. She'll even practice inflection, raising her tone when asking a question by saying "Up-py?" when she wants to be carried, for example. She's realizing the importance of language as she taps into the power of communicating her needs.
19 to 24 months
Though she probably says fewer than 50 words....

So I am wondering just how, at age 18 months, Coy was able to actually communicate this complex issue with parents. Or were parents just hearing what they wanted to hear, or imagined they heard.

[grellis]

if this kid decides tomorrow that he is truly a DOG

When I was 6, I wanted to be a horse. Not a rider (I was already riding at that age) but a horse. I would go to bed praying that I would wake up as a horse, lazing around my parent's backyard. Thank God my rampant imagination (which really was something of a fixation) was not in any way encouraged by my family!

[GeronL]

lol!

[mykroar]

Looks like they’ve pulled them - must have been spectacular.

[grellis]

I don't buy it, period. Just out of curiosity--do you have kids? I have three boys, and I am around toddlers frequently. I have yet to meet a single 18-month old that can identify gender beyond hairstyle and color-coded clothing. I refuse to believe that such an 18-month old exists--this is parental imprinting, and it is tantamount to mental and emotional abuse. What you have cited from the article, "But inside, mentally and most likely physically (with brain structure), Coy is a girl" is drivel. Take the second first--"most likely" physically, based upon what? Is this brain structure unchanged from birth, or structure that has evolved in early childhood from external pressures? None of us is born with modesty, but early in our lives we are conditioned to wear clothing--and I wouldn't be surprised if there is some physical evidence of that. But it is NOT behavior we are born with. And "mentally" a girl? Again, no. Not in an 18 month old. This is nothing more than parents imprinting their desires upon their child, encouraging what began as simple childhood imagination (if the child's confusion ever existed at all, which I doubt).