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Toronto School Board guidelines on gender identity allow for non-masculine/feminine pronouns
http://news.nationalpost.com ^ | 10/09/2012 | Megan O'Toole and Graeme McNaughton

Posted on 10/09/2012 7:37:58 AM PDT by massmike

The Toronto District School Board [last] week issued a set of guidelines on how schools should accommodate transgendered students…

On the issue of washrooms, the guidelines note that all students have the right to use a bathroom that “best corresponds to the student’s gender identity, regardless of the student’s sex assigned at birth.” Requiring a student to “prove” their gender through a doctor’s letter or identity documents is unacceptable, the board says.

Further, “students who wish to use pronouns other than the masculine or the feminine (such as ‘zhe’ and ‘hir’) need to be accommodated equally,” the guidelines note.

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‘Zhe’ & ‘Hir’: Toronto School Board guidelines on gender identity allow for non-masculine/feminine pronouns

1 posted on 10/09/2012 7:38:05 AM PDT by massmike
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This is the same school board whose website recently featured links to sites encouraging children to have sex with vegetables.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/archives/sunnews/canada/2012/09/20120927-112308.html


2 posted on 10/09/2012 7:38:53 AM PDT by massmike (The choice is clear in November: Romney or Caligula!)
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Who said Canadians lack a sense of humor? There people are HILARIOUS! (And nutz).


3 posted on 10/09/2012 7:49:24 AM PDT by faithhopecharity
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Also, other new terms will arise; “Get hirm” or “Kick zhe’s ass”


4 posted on 10/09/2012 7:49:24 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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regardless of the student’s sex assigned at birth.”

Really? You effin kiddin?

Maybe there should be a new sex category: zhe/hir morons.


5 posted on 10/09/2012 7:50:28 AM PDT by Adder (No Mo BO)
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What if the bo....Oops!...I mean the zhes...want to go into the gir...Oops again!...I mean the hirs'...johnny to spy on them?

Is that okay?

That would have been fun when I was a little zhe just going through adolescence, but then it would have been considered unacceptable behavior. I suppose today it would be encouraged.

Say...why have seperate bathroom facilities nowadays anyway? Aren't the zhes and the hirs encouraged to cohabitate? And express their sexuality as they see fit?

6 posted on 10/09/2012 7:53:53 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The forces of decadence are the forces of evil.)
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What if the bo....Oops!...I mean the zhes...want to go into the gir...Oops again!...I mean the hirs'...johnny to spy on them?

Is that okay?

That would have been fun when I was a little zhe just going through adolescence, but then it would have been considered unacceptable behavior. I suppose today it would be encouraged.

Say...why have seperate bathroom facilities nowadays anyway? Aren't the zhes and the hirs encouraged to cohabitate? And express their sexuality as they see fit?

7 posted on 10/09/2012 7:53:53 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The forces of decadence are the forces of evil.)
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What if the bo....Oops!...I mean the zhes...want to go into the gir...Oops again!...I mean the hirs'...johnny to spy on them?

Is that okay?

That would have been fun when I was a little zhe just going through adolescence, but then it would have been considered unacceptable behavior. I suppose today it would be encouraged.

Say...why have seperate bathroom facilities nowadays anyway? Aren't the zhes and the hirs encouraged to cohabitate? And express their sexuality as they see fit?

8 posted on 10/09/2012 7:53:53 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The forces of decadence are the forces of evil.)
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What if the bo....Oops!...I mean the zhes...want to go into the gir...Oops again!...I mean the hirs'...johnny to spy on them?

Is that okay?

That would have been fun when I was a little zhe just going through adolescence, but then it would have been considered unacceptable behavior. I suppose today it would be encouraged.

Say...why have seperate bathroom facilities nowadays anyway? Aren't the zhes and the hirs encouraged to cohabitate? And express their sexuality as they see fit?

9 posted on 10/09/2012 7:53:53 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The forces of decadence are the forces of evil.)
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Why “zhe” and “hir” when we already have an existing non-gender specific objective personal pronoun: “it.”


10 posted on 10/09/2012 7:57:59 AM PDT by dorothy ( "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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LOL at Progressives trying to increase diversity by increasing the number of “boxes” to put people in......

Someone better not mention that they should start having seprate water fountains for all the special categories because it is unfair for the special people to have to wait in the normal people’s line... Because the dullard idiot dims may think that is a great idea....


11 posted on 10/09/2012 7:59:48 AM PDT by GraceG
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the pronouns they should use are IT and THAT...THEM, THOSE...


12 posted on 10/09/2012 8:00:28 AM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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regardless of the student’s sex assigned at birth.”

If more people homeschooled this would not be an issue...

If you have a kid that had shall we say “gender issues” when they were born (ie. parts halfway), homeschooling would be a good option for them until they figured things out or their parents figured them out.


13 posted on 10/09/2012 8:02:30 AM PDT by GraceG
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the pronouns they should use are IT and THAT...THEM, THOSE...

You forgot THEY


14 posted on 10/09/2012 8:03:29 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: massmike
On the issue of washrooms, the guidelines note that all students have the right to use a bathroom that “best corresponds to the student’s gender identity, regardless of the student’s sex assigned at birth.”

So are they going ao allow little girls to use the urinals in the boys room?

15 posted on 10/09/2012 8:08:17 AM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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16 posted on 10/09/2012 8:09:08 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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They will need to put some bleachers in the girls rooms.


17 posted on 10/09/2012 8:22:29 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Obamaspeak: An army of pompous phrases marching across the landscape in search of an idea.)
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Lol! ... post-o-the-day :-)


18 posted on 10/09/2012 8:54:24 AM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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What could possibly go wrong...


19 posted on 10/09/2012 9:08:35 AM PDT by bgill
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The English language already contains a gender-neutral pronoun.

It.


20 posted on 10/09/2012 10:12:46 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Wait a minute! Romney doesn't suck? I'm trying to keep up.)
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