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Maine Commission Moves to Ban Gender Specific Bathrooms, Sports Teams in Schools
Fox News ^ | April 9, 2010 | Diane Macedo

Posted on 04/09/2010 6:26:22 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

The little girls' room won't be just for little girls anymore, if the Maine Human Rights Commission has its way.

The commission is taking heat over a controversial proposal to ban schools from enforcing gender divisions in sports teams, school organizations, bathrooms and locker rooms. It says forcing a student into a particular room or group because of his or her biological gender amounts to discrimination.

The issue came to light last year when the commission ruled that, under the Maine Human Rights Act, a school had discriminated against a 12-year-old transgender boy by denying him access to the girls' bathroom.

Now the commission aims to issue guidelines on how schools should deal with similar situations in the future. It would make Maine the first state to implement such guidelines for schools as young as preschool and nursery -- and even some private schools.

But not everyone in the state is on board with the current proposal.

Some school districts and organizations have criticized the commission for making its initial ruling without getting enough input from conservative groups, and then for coming up with proposed guidelines in what some described as closed-door sessions.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: atheismandstate; corruptingaminor; feminazis; homosexualagenda; indoctrination; kevinjennings; maine; naughtyteacherslist; safeschoolsczar; savethemales; sexism; sexpositiveagenda; sexualdiscrimination; sexualizingchildren; showandtell; teensex; unisex
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To: Clock King
When are parents going to start telling these “Rights” commissions to go to hell, and NO, we will not answer to you or any lawsuit or any ruling that you put forth. If you want to use force to enforce it, then prepare to be met back with force.

Probably when parents stop thinking their neighbors should to pay for their children's education. The solution is easy. Take kids out of public schools; every school day is a day you can vote with your feet and leave. Every day a conservative stays in a public school is another opportunity wasted to drive a stake through the heart of liberalism.

21 posted on 04/09/2010 6:43:44 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: Clock King
When are parents going to start telling these “Rights” commissions to go to hell, and NO, we will not answer to you or any lawsuit or any ruling that you put forth. If you want to use force to enforce it, then prepare to be met back with force.

Probably when parents stop thinking their neighbors should to pay for their children's education. The solution is easy. Take kids out of public schools; every school day is a day you can vote with your feet and leave. Every day a conservative stays in a public school is another opportunity wasted to drive a stake through the heart of liberalism.

22 posted on 04/09/2010 6:44:49 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: Free ThinkerNY

School wrestling teams will be really popular now.


23 posted on 04/09/2010 6:49:28 PM PDT by Random Access
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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Unreal.


24 posted on 04/09/2010 6:49:40 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Ok - thanks for the enlightenment - I thought gender was synonymous with the noun sex!
25 posted on 04/09/2010 7:01:45 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: Free ThinkerNY

this is an easy one.
contact the human rights group and advise them to tell all schools involved to give the transgendered the key to the staff bathrooms.


26 posted on 04/09/2010 7:05:21 PM PDT by catroina54
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To: catroina54

Exactly right. I wonder if the staff is going to open their bathrooms to the opposite sex.


27 posted on 04/09/2010 7:10:42 PM PDT by mia
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To: Random Access

>>School wrestling teams will be really popular now.<<

And touch football. And swimming. And ice hockey.


28 posted on 04/09/2010 7:18:51 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: GSP.FAN

So true! We must begin to turn things around in November.

Then in the next election cycle, turn them over again!

Then, maybe then, the scum will get the message!


29 posted on 04/09/2010 7:26:36 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

These bastards will get some little girl raped.


30 posted on 04/09/2010 7:28:38 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The issue came to light last year when the commission ruled that, under the Maine Human Rights Act, a school had discriminated against a 12-year-old transgender boy by denying him access to the girls' bathroom.

Don't forget all the 12-14 y/o normal boys who will be happy to have full access to the girls' locker rooms.

31 posted on 04/09/2010 7:36:10 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Pathetic. So everyone else has to have changes forced on them to accomodate a single person?


32 posted on 04/09/2010 7:39:59 PM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: Free ThinkerNY


33 posted on 04/09/2010 7:40:00 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: J Edgar; Mrs. Don-o

gender is the pc term for sex. liberals do not like the word sex. according to them, everyone is born a bisexual and transgendered and we all choose our sexuality and gender due to peer pressure. but homosexuals and transvestites? nature made them perfect and they did not fall for the peer pressure!


34 posted on 04/09/2010 7:46:13 PM PDT by JimWayne
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To: JimWayne

Ok “sex” it is for the rest of my remaining days


35 posted on 04/09/2010 7:54:32 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: Free ThinkerNY

One addled and confused 12 year old punk causes millennia of social norms to be upended. We are truly an insane people. I just can’t stand it any more.


36 posted on 04/09/2010 8:19:28 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Random Access

“School wrestling teams will be really popular now.”

That ship has sailed.
http://www.usgwa.com/

There are 500-700 girl wrestlers at the national championships; Many of them are on their high school wrestling teams. FWIW, they are athletes, interested in the sport.

That said, I think men’s and women’s restrooms should be separate.


37 posted on 04/09/2010 8:20:03 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Yawn...Just another WTF moment...Difficult for us old geezers to keep blood pressure under control reading this crap...


38 posted on 04/09/2010 8:25:51 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Parents, mothers get the hell out there and scream like hell, sit in, protest, block traffic, hold these idiots accountable their destroying your childrens moral fabric!


39 posted on 04/09/2010 8:32:48 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (The light is about to go out, do your part)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The left is already hysterical about sexual harassment, and they try this?
How many kids will be afraid to use the bathroom at school and hold it all day. Hope they get together and sue.

40 posted on 04/10/2010 5:24:36 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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