Posted on 11/06/2015 10:10:37 AM PST by xzins
An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer representing a biologically male transgender student in Illinois says that his client should be allowed to shower in the girls’ locker room because "as a matter of science," he is “a girl through and throughâ€.
Although the Palatine-Schaumberg Township High School District 211 allows transgender students to use locker rooms of the gender they identify with, it requires them to use private shower stalls or changing areas so as not to appear naked in the company of the opposite sex.
The student filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR), which ordered the school district to provide the transgender teen with full access to the girls' locker room or risk the loss of federal Title IX funding, which bans sex discrimination.
In a statement, the district said that it will “continue to provide private accommodations for transgender students to ensure a respectful school environment, and will not allow unrestricted access to its locker rooms as directed by OCR. The goal of the District in this matter is to protect the privacy rights of all students when changing clothes or showering before or after physical education and after-school activities.â€
The school district’s superintendent, Dr. Daniel Cates, told Fox News host Megyn Kelly Tuesday night that he had received complaints from parents and female students who were concerned that their privacy was being violated by having biological members of the opposite sex in the locker room while they were changing.
But in a recent blog post, John Knight, LGBT director for the ACLU of Illinois, argues that Cates’ claim that his client is biologically male is offensive and scientifically inaccurate.
“Most damaging,†he writes, “the superintendent asserts that a girl who is transgender has a ‘male body’ and that transgender students are ‘of the opposite sex’ when defending the District’s position.
“Such assertions are wrong as a matter of science and offensive because they serve to challenge and undermine the very core of a person’s identity. A transgender girl is female. She is a girl through and through – not something in between as the District suggests.
“And although unnecessary to make a transgender person ‘really female’ or ‘really male,’ many transgender young people, including my client, have undergone medical interventions to conform their body to their gender.â€
And in other news, it was revealed today the CPUSA that Dogs are really Cats, and anyone who disagrees will be sent to a re-education camp in Siberia.
Or South Los Angeles, which is functionally equivalent.
Cage Theory Ping.
Science is gonna look between his legs.
Flat-earthers as a significant portion of anything are a historical myth cooked up in the 19th century. Those who invoke them are historically ignorant. There is a great book out there entitled “Inventing the Flat Earth” by Jeffery Burton Russell. Prior to the 19th century in the west, there are at most 5 documented individuals who may have held that the earth was flat, though in the majority of these cases the evidence is ambiguous. The one really clear case is a guy in the 2nd or 3rd century who was condemned as a heretic (though for reasons other than his geography—his theology was as bad as his natural science). His Latin was really good, though, and he was widely read in the renaissance.
Lol
Like Brucie J, who is a girl, but kept his penis, and says he’s a lesbian attracted to women.
You’re thinking ‘this has to be a comedy routine’, but these people are trying to brainwash us.
I don’t even believe that they believe it.
My right to extend my arm ends at your nose.
Well, the word ‘science’ was used. I guess I have to agree with her or all the smart people of the world will think I’m a dumb anti science zealot. It seems to work for people with no scientific background.
To the judge: Repeat after me, “That’s stupid. Case dismissed.”
Practice it in front of a mirror a few times to really nail the delivery.
Trofim Lysenko has replaced Gregor Mendel in the Science Pantheon.
Why do you think we had the republican sweep?
if it doesn't get stopped now, it'll never get stopped...
what to do if you are a parent?.....insist that your daughter due to psychological reasons needs to have her own private locker room, with shower and bathroom...
This is completely insane and it gets crazier by the day. Gender is the simplest thing in the world: There are two genders, and we don’t pick one, it’s decided for us. What can be easier than that? But the main thing here is the perversion. This student and this ACLU lawyer don’t want him to have accommodations that make him feel better about himself, they are determined to have the girls in his school see him naked. This is about putting on a display.
Political science, maybe.
Any real science? Bull-felafel
"Biologically Male" means it already did.
honestly folks, I don't even like being naked in front of other girls, let alone a male.
You can't fix stupid. It makes me wonder how some of these people actually live long enough to become adults.
Not, apparently, a biologist. That may be a bit of an understatement.
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