1* "A transgender 6-year-old who identifies as a female should be allowed to use the girls' bathroom at her elementary school even though she was born a male, the Colorado Civil Rights Division ruled on Sunday.
In a decision being hailed as a major victory by advocates for transgender Americans, the division concluded that the Fountain-Fort Carson School District created an unnecessarily hostile situation for Coy Mathis when it made the female bathroom off limits.
The school district, about 15 miles south of Colorado Springs, Colo., also showed "a lack of understanding of the complexity of transgender issues" by referring to Coy as a male or using quotes around "her" throughout the litigation, Chavez wrote.
Coy was born a male, but began at an early age to identify as a girl through toys and dress and started calling herself a girl between the ages of 4 and 6, according to the summary of the division's ruling.
In August of 2011 she was enrolled in kindergarten as a boy, and when other parents and teachers did not recognize Coy as a girl, she began suffering from depression and anxiety that affected her ability to learn, Chavez wrote.
Coy's parents asked the school district to treat their child as a girl, and officials initially agreed, the ruling said. But when Coy got to first grade, the district told the family she would no longer be able to use the female bathroom and instead had to use a staff restroom or a gender-neutral facility in the school's medical office.
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, which worked with the family, said in a statement Sunday that the ruling is the most comprehensive ever in support of transgender people's access to bathrooms without harassment.
“All we ever wanted was for Coy’s school to treat her the same as other little girls. We are extremely happy that she now will be treated equally,” Kathryn Mathis, Coy’s mother, said in statement on the group's website." NBC
HERE WE GO-first gay marriage, and now little boys given a "RIGHT" to use the little girls bathroom......This is only the beginning...This child needs help & instead his parents, political activists & some politicians pander to his (yes I said "his") every whim. We have a 6 year old "boy" dictating policy to the adults.
2* BANGOR, Maine — Lawyers for a transgender girl and an elementary school that required the fifth-grader to use a staff bathroom instead of the girls restroom clashed before Maine's highest court Wednesday over whether her rights were violated, a case that lays bare the difficult decisions facing school administrators.
The family and the Maine Human Rights Commission sued, but a judge in the state's lower Superior Court ruled that the Orono school district acted within its discretion by requiring her to use a staff bathroom after there was a complaint about the student using the girls bathroom.
"I hope they understood how important it is for students to be able to go to school and get an education and have fun and make friends, and not have to worry about being bullied by students or administration, and be accepted for who they are," the high school sophomore said.
It's a topic that school administrators are grappling with nationwide.
Policies about transgender adults are still evolving, and the thinking about how to handle children who identify with the gender opposite of the sex they're born with is even more complex." USA Today
What is there to think about? When school boys can decide they want to use the girls bathroom, and we have sick, twisted adults who wish to indulge them, we really have crossed the line in the culture. How is this even up for "debate"?
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In a decision being hailed as a major victory by advocates for transgender Americans, the division concluded that the Fountain-Fort Carson School District created an unnecessarily hostile situation for Coy Mathis when it made the female bathroom off limits.
The school district, about 15 miles south of Colorado Springs, Colo., also showed "a lack of understanding of the complexity of transgender issues" by referring to Coy as a male or using quotes around "her" throughout the litigation, Chavez wrote.
Coy was born a male, but began at an early age to identify as a girl through toys and dress and started calling herself a girl between the ages of 4 and 6, according to the summary of the division's ruling.
In August of 2011 she was enrolled in kindergarten as a boy, and when other parents and teachers did not recognize Coy as a girl, she began suffering from depression and anxiety that affected her ability to learn, Chavez wrote.
Coy's parents asked the school district to treat their child as a girl, and officials initially agreed, the ruling said. But when Coy got to first grade, the district told the family she would no longer be able to use the female bathroom and instead had to use a staff restroom or a gender-neutral facility in the school's medical office.
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, which worked with the family, said in a statement Sunday that the ruling is the most comprehensive ever in support of transgender people's access to bathrooms without harassment.
“All we ever wanted was for Coy’s school to treat her the same as other little girls. We are extremely happy that she now will be treated equally,” Kathryn Mathis, Coy’s mother, said in statement on the group's website." NBC
HERE WE GO-first gay marriage, and now little boys given a "RIGHT" to use the little girls bathroom......This is only the beginning...This child needs help & instead his parents, political activists & some politicians pander to his (yes I said "his") every whim. We have a 6 year old "boy" dictating policy to the adults.
2* BANGOR, Maine — Lawyers for a transgender girl and an elementary school that required the fifth-grader to use a staff bathroom instead of the girls restroom clashed before Maine's highest court Wednesday over whether her rights were violated, a case that lays bare the difficult decisions facing school administrators.
The family and the Maine Human Rights Commission sued, but a judge in the state's lower Superior Court ruled that the Orono school district acted within its discretion by requiring her to use a staff bathroom after there was a complaint about the student using the girls bathroom.
"I hope they understood how important it is for students to be able to go to school and get an education and have fun and make friends, and not have to worry about being bullied by students or administration, and be accepted for who they are," the high school sophomore said.
It's a topic that school administrators are grappling with nationwide.
Policies about transgender adults are still evolving, and the thinking about how to handle children who identify with the gender opposite of the sex they're born with is even more complex." USA Today
What is there to think about? When school boys can decide they want to use the girls bathroom, and we have sick, twisted adults who wish to indulge them, we really have crossed the line in the culture. How is this even up for "debate"?
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| Transgender Protest in Arizona over a bill to stop this NONSENSE of using bathrooms based on gender-of-choice Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; Romans 1:28 HNV |