Posted on 04/19/2016 5:57:30 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
A federal appeals court in Richmond has ruled that a transgender high school student who was born as a female can sue his school board on discrimination grounds because it banned him from the boys’ bathroom.
In backing high school junior Gavin Grimm, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit deferred to the U.S. Education Department’s position that transgender students should have access to the bathrooms that match their gender identities rather than being forced to use bathrooms that match their biological sex. The department has said that requiring transgender students to use a bathroom that corresponds with their biological sex amounts to a violation of Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination at schools that receive federal funding.
“It’s a complete vindication for the Education Department’s interpretation of Title IX,” said Joshua Block, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who represents Grimm.
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So, what happens if she gets sexually assaulted or raped when she keeps entering the men’s restroom and finds the wrong man there? I’m thinking if she runs into a bunch of those feral Muslim “refugees”, she won’t fare very well.
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My guess is New York values prevail.
This judge has an address. Just sayin’.
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With all due respect to the judges who made this decision, where did these post-FDR era, state sovereignty-ignoring, pro-LGBT activist federal judges go to law school? (I don’t really want to know.)
There are two major constitutional problems with the court’s decision imo.
First, the only sex-related right that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect relates only to voting rights as evidenced by the 19th Amendment, the states expressly giving the feds the specific power to legislatively strengthen that right.
That being said, since this PC transgender issue is clearly outside the scope of voting rights, low-information federal judges are evidently once again unconstitutionally sticking their noses into 10th Amendment-protected state issues.
The other major constitutional oversight with the court’s decision is this. The states have also never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spending for INTRAstate schooling purposes.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified, in broad terms, that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, intrastate schooling issues not listed among those powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So the states evidently do not understand that the federal funding that they are under the threat of losing because their schools are not complying with unconstitutional federal discrimination regulations is argably state revenues that the corrupt feds have stolen from the states with unconstitutional federal taxes.
And it’s no surprise that the misguided, post-17th Amendment (17A) ratificaton Senate unthinkingly helped to pass Title IX. 17A needs to be repealed.
“Using the bathroom of their biological sex causes reality to intrude on their delusion.”
I really wonder who is pushing this, and why are people allowing it. I know, PC, don’t want to be called names, etc., but why won’t the people making these decisions just say no, you’re a male, regardless of your delusion. Use the bathroom designated for males. Gender identity is nonsense.
“U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit deferred to the U.S. Education Department’s position that transgender students should have access to the bathrooms that match their gender identities rather than being forced to use bathrooms that match their biological sex.”
AFAIK, the U.S. Education Department’s interpretation of a rule is not the same as established law passed by congress. Congress needs to very quickly rein in the department and limit the actions they may take under Title IX. Making sure that “sex” is defined to only mean biological sex would be a good start.
The bathroom ordinance here in Houston, Texas was ultimately defeated after months of court proceedings. It will be back with the newly elected progressive mayor of Houston.
A side note, Mayor Parker named this ordinance, Hero ordinance. America is spiraling out of control.
These radical sexual predators have jumped the shark. No woman wants ro share public restrooms with other women let alone other male perverts.
PATHETIC!!!!!!
This country had the right idea not suffering perverts of all stripes.
Saves having idiotic discussions and legal wastes of court time, about this stupid crap and the ramifications of such moronic policies.
I dont want to share bathrooms with women either. Not gonna get set up for harassment or some lesbians desiring to beat up a guy for grins.
Call Joe the Plumber.
Reason to reverse Roe v. Wade.
“who was born as a female can sue his school board on discrimination grounds because it banned him from the boys’ bathroom.”
Who would have ever thought that our society would reach this point in history? Political Correctness run amuck!
Is it coincidence that the head of the HRC is named Susan War-below?
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