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Justice Dept.: Transgender students can use bathrooms that match their gender identity
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | june 30, 2015 | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 07/01/2015 2:40:35 PM PDT by lowbridge

The Department of Justice argued in a brief to a federal court on Monday that transgender high school students should be able to use school restrooms that match up with their gender identity, and can't be forced by the school to use the restroom that matches up with their physical characteristics.

It's the first time the federal government has tried to make the case for this transgender right in a courtroom.

Justice's Civil Rights Division filed the brief on behalf of Gavin Grimm, a Virginia high school student who identifies as a boy, even though Grimm was born female.

"He was assigned the female sex at birth, but his gender identity is male and he presents as a boy in all aspects of his life," Justice wrote in its argument to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Grimm was allowed to use the boys' restroom for seven weeks, until Gloucester County Public Schools imposed a policy that barred Grimm from the boys' room. The school made that policy because Grimm is not "biologically male."

But Justice said Title IX of the Education Amendments, a law aimed at ending sexual discrimination, holds that the school's policy change is illegal.

"Under Title IX, discrimination based on a person's gender identity, a person's transgender status, or a person's nonconformity to sex stereotypes constitutes discrimination based on sex," Justice wrote. "As such, prohibiting a student from accessing the restrooms that match his gender identity is prohibited sex discrimination under Title IX."

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To: Tennessee Nana

That’s what I noticed. Assigned? You mean, the baby had no genitalia and they assigned it a gender? Or did the baby have female genitalia, but the patriarchal OB/GYN insisted on identifying him as a female?


41 posted on 07/01/2015 3:07:14 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: Tennessee Nana
One of the most irritating clichés of this whole outbreak of mass insanity is the "assigned at birth" trope.

Sex is not assigned - not ever. Sex is determined at conception, and doesn't change afterward.

42 posted on 07/01/2015 3:07:49 PM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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To: Jane Long

When I was a worker’s comp case manager, if a client of mine said they encouraged-or just supported-their minor child in acting out being the opposite gender-even though it didn’t have a damn thing to do with a workers comp claim, my employer required that I inform him and report it as child abuse. It still is child abuse-actually resembles Munchausen by Proxy...


43 posted on 07/01/2015 3:09:22 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: SgtBob

...thought about that, but I don’t like to put my personal information online...so....


44 posted on 07/01/2015 3:10:14 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: lowbridge

I get the feeling there’s going to be a lot of horny teenaged boys claiming to be transgender........


45 posted on 07/01/2015 3:10:15 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Tennessee Nana

Who would go in a bathroom used by males if they didn’t have to?


46 posted on 07/01/2015 3:13:07 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: lowbridge

People with gender identity problems are delusional, severely neurotic, some are even psychotic.

These people should be seeking therapy and should be medicated.

Some of them should be locked up.

Permanently.

They should not be allowed to mix it up with tender children in public bathrooms.


47 posted on 07/01/2015 3:13:39 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: GeronL
Why is the federal government involved in this at all?

Because Barack Obama is homosexual.

48 posted on 07/01/2015 3:13:40 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: lowbridge

Tell me that a whole bunch of junior high school boys who want to try to see a girl’s panties or the bra of some 14 year old girl adjusting her clothes, or shower with the girls after gym class aren’t going to “self-identify” as a female for about 5 minutes after 4th period Social Studies at the local junior high school!

The Inmates are running the DC Nut House!


49 posted on 07/01/2015 3:15:10 PM PDT by Crystal Palace East (90% of MSM is lies, except the National Enquirer, of course :))
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To: lowbridge

What if their “identity” changes while they’re in the bathroom????


50 posted on 07/01/2015 3:16:28 PM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: HarleyLady27

yes but what about your little granddaughters ???

they cant “hold it”

I hate it when females take boys almost my height into the ladies with them..

Ive seen them there and taken my granddaughters back out until they were gone, speaking loudly to the idiotic female about the situation at the time..(and getting rude words back as in I’m the evil one)

Now my granddaughters have to contend with grown males in the ladies ???


51 posted on 07/01/2015 3:18:06 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tax-chick

Why is the federal government involved in this at all?

Because Barack Obama is homosexual.
_____________________________________________________

....well hell, that’s right he is, I forgot.....


52 posted on 07/01/2015 3:18:15 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: headstamp 2

> This is unbelievable.

Parents of other students need to start filing lawsuits like crazy.

Is what is so evident to anyone with a brain lost on the homonazi pervs or is the end goal of possily getting alone in the bathrooms around other people’s children such an enticement to the perva they are pushing for it full steam ahead?


53 posted on 07/01/2015 3:18:59 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Tennessee Nana

I have one granddaughter and she’s 21...she best figure it out really soon....just thinking....


54 posted on 07/01/2015 3:19:19 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: HarleyLady27

If the government is doing something that seems utterly insane, either “Obama is homosexual,” or “It’s a Commie plot,” is a reasonable explanation.


55 posted on 07/01/2015 3:20:05 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: lowbridge
Why would I send my girls to a high school where boys can be in the same bathroom as them. Why would any girl pretending to be a boy demand to be in the boys.....yep, that is not asking for serious future trouble and suing of the schools.

The absolute stupidity of liberals is stunning. The justice department needs to be party to being sued along with the school system they demanded let this happen, when the inevitable happens and someone is seriously damaged.

56 posted on 07/01/2015 3:20:09 PM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: lowbridge; All

This is another 17th Amendment-related issue since the USAG is confirmed by the Senate.

Just as with gay marriage and abortion, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called transgender rights. So the Justice Department has no constitutionally enumerated protections concerning these issues to apply to the states via the 14th Amendment imo.

The states have also never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to decide policy for intrastate schools. So the Justice Department is evidently once again trying to use constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers to win votes from low-information voters.

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, along with corrupt senators and Constitution-ignoring attorney generals.


57 posted on 07/01/2015 3:20:35 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Jim Robinson

I don’t want to hear bitching about urine on the toilet seats, then.


58 posted on 07/01/2015 3:20:42 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!!)
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To: lowbridge

use which ever you want to. Gender is fluid and you can change day to day? Build individual bathroom stalls , like port o potties.


59 posted on 07/01/2015 3:22:59 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
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To: lowbridge

There only two types of Bathrooms. Type 1. You have a Penis. Type 2. You don’t.


60 posted on 07/01/2015 3:23:03 PM PDT by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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