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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: rdcbn

> Maybe it’s just the gentleman in me, but why don’t we compromise.

No compromising with the insane asylum. Besides its not compromosing if you’re giving something up while they’re not. You can never satisfy the libtards anyway. They always come back for more.


61 posted on 07/01/2015 3:23:16 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: HarleyLady27

My younger ones are 11, 12, 12, 15

the poor kids have been taught to be “private” about their bodies..

Whats it going to do to them to have lustful grown males drooling at them in the ladies ??? and worse..

The whole idea is dangerous and sick...


62 posted on 07/01/2015 3:23:30 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: lowbridge

A very, very simple solution....picture genetalia on the door...is you have a penis, you use this room, if not, you use the other one.....no prob1lem and no discrimination.....


63 posted on 07/01/2015 3:23:50 PM PDT by terycarl (, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: lowbridge

Chaos is on the horizon.


64 posted on 07/01/2015 3:24:13 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (Ideas have consequences.)
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To: cincinnati65
> I get the feeling there’s going to be a lot of horny teenaged boys claiming to be transgender........ -

And a lot of girls raped in the bathroom stalls while someone stands guard at the door.

65 posted on 07/01/2015 3:25:12 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: HarleyLady27

My daughter visited a supposedly ladies restroom in California recently. She came out of there very disgusted due to the filth in every stall. Urine all over one toilet seat. Fecal splatter on another. Fecal and blood splatter in another and so on. She vowed that her time in that state would be short lived. And that she would homeschool.


66 posted on 07/01/2015 3:25:47 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: lowbridge
"He was assigned the female sex at birth"

Assigned?? Assigned??? SHE was born that way! Nothing was "assigned".

67 posted on 07/01/2015 3:26:46 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: petitfour

I learned to go 8 hours without using the bathroom when I was in high school. It drives my family crazy on long car trips.


68 posted on 07/01/2015 3:27:08 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: Jim Robinson
So, the “boy” who’s really a girl is going to belly up to the urinal with the rest of the guys?

And take the communal shower in the boys locker room? This I've got to see/hear about.

69 posted on 07/01/2015 3:27:33 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Vinnie

Do such things still exist? My high school had separate shower stalls in the locker rooms in the early 80s ... but hardly anyone used them because you didn’t have time to shower and dress and be on time for your next class. You just had to be sweaty all day if you’d exerted yourself in gym class.


70 posted on 07/01/2015 3:31:13 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: VTenigma

I feel like I’m living in an asylum where the lunatics have taken over .


71 posted on 07/01/2015 3:31:27 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Blue Jays
My prevailing "bathroom gender identity" depends on which facility was just rinsed with fresh-smelling germicidal cleansers.

72 posted on 07/01/2015 3:34:41 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Tax-chick

You, too?! I learned as a young child to hold it for 12 to 15 hours. My mother would drive all the way to my grandmother’s house without a restroom break. We would stop for McDonalds drive thru food. I made sure not to drink a lot. Oh. We would stop at Stuckeys as well. I think that is where my mother would sneak in a potty break for herself. I am not as good at it as I used to be. (I am pretty sure my mother was afraid to use a public restroom that might have been used by an African American even though we had a black maid. It is like The Help was based on psycho white women in Jackson, MS like my very own mother. Haha)


73 posted on 07/01/2015 3:36:40 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: GeronL
Why is the federal government involved in this at all

BECAUSE THEY CAN, YOU MEAN-OLD RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST! WE ARE AFTER POWER AND YOU BET YOUR BUTTONS WE'LL GET IT!!!

I'd make a good totalitarian, huh?

74 posted on 07/01/2015 3:38:44 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Tax-chick

I admit this is anecdotal (don’t have time to research right now), but I have seen many reports from plumbers, etc who say that generally speaking, women’s public restrooms are in worse shape than men’s.


75 posted on 07/01/2015 3:40:29 PM PDT by Dartman (Canadian, eh. And proud of it.)
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To: petitfour

We stopped at Stuckey’s. My mother could go forever without using the bathroom, too. You never had drinks in the car in those days. I think she survived entirely on cigarettes.


76 posted on 07/01/2015 3:40:52 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: Dartman

I don’t ever go into men’s bathrooms in public places. I have only my experience at home to go on.


77 posted on 07/01/2015 3:41:41 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

Wow. Contemporary college education has become irrelevant and useless. Now, high school too.


78 posted on 07/01/2015 3:43:01 PM PDT by LouAvul (Liberalism: much more than just a mental illness)
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To: lowbridge
it will not be long before schools make all restrooms Co-Ed. They will put full locking stalls in the restrooms, say good bye to urinals..... Then it will flow to all public spaces. It will cost a fortune just like the ADA laws did. Businesses will have to spend a lot of extra money to cater to a very very small group of people.
79 posted on 07/01/2015 3:47:35 PM PDT by martinidon
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To: lowbridge

LOL... Only the US Justice Dept. would argue that ones gender is not a matter of biology but a matter of opinion in a confused teenager’s mind.


80 posted on 07/01/2015 3:50:03 PM PDT by GregoTX (Remember the Alamo)
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