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School Punishes Male Teacher Who Refused To Watch Girl Change In Boys’ Locker Room
The Revolutionary Act ^ | 11/15/18

Posted on 11/15/2018 11:57:59 AM PST by Liberty7732

Another Florida school district is cutting parents out of the loop on transgender school kids and gagging teachers, but this time going after a male P.E. teacher who refused to observe a middle school girl who was claiming to feel like a boy and using the boys’ locker room.

Pasco County schools, a suburban county just north of Tampa, allowed a self-determined transgender female student daily access to the boys’ locker room, without providing any advanced warning to the boys’ parents or to the boys themselves.

This resulted in an embarrassing shock the first time the obvious girl entered the locker room and there were naked boys.

When the male P.E. teacher refused to watch the minor girl change clothes, a school administrator threatened the teacher with placing him on administrative leave. According to Liberty Counsel attorney Richard Mast, whose organization is involved in the situation, the threatening email said that refusing to supervise the girl would “not be tolerated.”

The Liberty Counsel is a pro-bono national law firm that protects individuals’ rights from a traditional, constitutional viewpoint.

Interestingly, a female P.E. teacher also objected to the situation, but was ignored by school administrators. She has not yet been threatened, and given the publicity now surrounding the school, probably will not be. Those are usually done quietly.

The first time the girl entered the boys’ locker room, she caught “boys (literally) with their pants down, causing them embarrassment and concern by the fact that they had been observed changing by an obvious girl,” according to the complaint letter sent to the Pasco County School District from the Liberty Counsel. Remember, these are 13- and 14-year-old boys just discovering their awkward transition into manhood.

Teachers at Chasco Middle School are banned from discussing the change in policy — not the specifics of the case, which would make sense, but the policy itself. There is no other reasonable term for that than “gag order.”

So the Liberty Counsel letter goes on to explain that the teacher refused to “knowingly place himself in a position to observe a minor female in the nude or otherwise in a state of undress.” That actually is a both moral and legally sensible move on the part of the teacher. However, school administrators shifted from the threat of administrative leave to a threat to having him “transferred to another school as discipline for ‘not doing your job in the locker room.’”

The situation arose in September, yet the Pasco County parents of 70,000 students in the district have still not been informed of the new policy by the school district, even though the female student still has full access to the male changing facilities. The Pasco School Board also is aware of it and has done nothing.

The reason is not hard to see. LGBTQI activists are organized, well-financed, powerful and intimidating. Very few politicians or even regular people want to be even perceived as going counter to their agenda.

The Pasco controversy mirrors similar transgender secrecy and heavy-handed intimidation on the part of school district officials in Sarasota County, just south of Tampa. (Both Sarasota and Pasco counties are politically red counties. Their School Boards do not seem to be reflecting that.)

At the recommendation of the Sarasota County School District’s LGBTQI Task Force, the superintendent issued “guidelines” to govern how the district’s 50 public schools handle transgender and gender questioning students — starting as young as kindergarten.

The Sarasota County school policy guidelines implement a full-blown transgender protocol allowing students to use whichever bathroom and locker room corresponds with the gender with which they “identify;” and forces everyone else to use the pronoun of the students’ choice. This sounds identical to Pasco’s policy — or perhaps guidelines is the technical terms as the Board did not take action on it.

But maybe the biggest affront is that the Sarasota guidelines also say that parents can not be informed of their child’s decision to identify as a different gender, because some trans activists claim the schools are a “safer” environment than the home. This again seems to be in line with what is going on in Pasco, which suggests that the administrative guidelines are being heavily influenced or even written by trans activists.

In Sarasota, the secrecy along with the general egregiousness of the policy, attracted a lot of controversy. A 31-year-old Sarasota father of a young child not yet in the school system, sent the superintendent a brief email criticizing the guidelines and keeping transgenderism secret from parents.

That parent found officers from the school district’s brand new police force at his door the next day. Nothing came of the officers’ visit, because they realized the letter was harmless. Nonetheless more showed up at the father’s parent’s home and neighbors’ home.

This is a shocking level of intimidation for a local school district, and certainly at least some parents must have got the message: Shut up, sit down and let us handle your children. Or else we may come knocking.

In Pasco, the message sent is similar, but directly to teachers. Shut up and do what you’re told. Or else.


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To: cnsmom

this is all bs. normal folk should not have to bend over backwards because crazy people say we do.
all this crap with kids is just trendy now.


41 posted on 11/15/2018 1:57:57 PM PST by ronniesgal (warning- you will probably be offended by something I type, if you are looking to be.)
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To: dp0622

>>What if the kid feels like an otter? Or a polar bear? Or a fish? Do environmental conditions need to be adjusted to meet their needs?
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Great question! Answer: Why, of course, and at taxpayer expense! This would be entertaining if it weren’t so insane and harmful to society and children.


42 posted on 11/15/2018 1:58:18 PM PST by Kalamata (How to interpret The Revelation: http://bibleresearchtools.com/bible-study-video-series/)
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To: dp0622

“Where does it end?”
= = = = = = = = = =
There is no end. Only the next level depravity until our country is destroyed.


43 posted on 11/15/2018 2:02:24 PM PST by Valk Rider
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To: ronniesgal

The only way to stop it is to force the parents to step up. Parents today feel entitled that schools should provide their every whim while they go to work. They want their children to be brilliant but don’t lift a finger of support.


44 posted on 11/15/2018 2:06:14 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: Liberty7732

When the left manages to institute Sharia law, this problem will be solved right quick.


45 posted on 11/15/2018 2:25:05 PM PST by tommythev (No Dick Dale in the R&R HOF? for shame!)
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To: Liberty7732

I do not see the First Amendment much anymore: Governments and corporations everywhere impose gag orders on persons they victimize. Judges are the worst.

Remember what the did to Scott Walker and those connected to him?


46 posted on 11/15/2018 2:52:48 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Rusty0604

Looks like I’ll be staying overseas for a long time, goodness the crazy crap back home.


47 posted on 11/15/2018 3:11:11 PM PST by the_individual2014
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To: Kalamata

How insane is insane??!?!

What was insane 10 years ago isn’t now.

What’s insane now won’t be in 10 years.

We are Rome.

AND I HATE when others say that.

Because there’s SO MANY good Americans, but maybe Rome still had many good Roman before it fell.

I’m not smart enough to make a fair comparison.


48 posted on 11/15/2018 3:27:08 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: LegendHasIt

Yep, and would have been locked away for life with a permanent “sexual predator” record.

Why would ANYBODY go into the teaching profession these days?


49 posted on 11/15/2018 3:53:01 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Liberty7732

“”the obvious girl””

Give it a couple more years and no one will know one from the other...We’ll be back to the old stereotype of “they all look alike” and then where will the poor younguns’ be - they’ll just be one in the crowd and missing out on all that extra attention. Oh! Me! What’s a poor child to do?


50 posted on 11/15/2018 3:54:03 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: PGR88

Sergeant Miller would have been watching the feet, not other parts. Of course, he might have screamed “You faggot! Why do you have painted toenails? ARE YOU A GIRL??”


51 posted on 11/15/2018 3:55:54 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Liberty7732

When I was in school if a girl entered the boys locker room, she would have been treated to some pretty graphic suggestions from some of the kids.

And I never recall the coach/teacher observing us in the locker room after gym while we showered. Unless a fight broke out or something, he went in his office until his next class.


52 posted on 11/15/2018 4:00:37 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: FourtySeven

“Just stay out of our bedrooms, leave us alone! That’s all we ask!”

Hard to believe from that to today in what? 40 years? Maybe 50.

I just watched the 1961 Western “Two Rode Together” with James Stewart and Richard Widmark. It’s always fun yet wistful and sorrowful watching normal men and women interact in the ways they had for millennia.


53 posted on 11/15/2018 4:03:59 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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