Posted on 06/12/2013 10:51:39 AM PDT by mojito
Where should a transgender schoolgirl be allowed to pee? To some, this may sound like a minor, insignificant question, but not to Nicole Maines, a 15-year-old transgender girl who attended Maine public schools. Born a boy biologically, Maines now self-identifies as a girl, dressing in girls’ clothing and sporting a typical 15-year-old girl’s hair and makeup. In addition to the harassment she faced from other kids, Maines also met intolerance by school officials, who refused to allow her to use the girls’ bathroom. Instead, in a remarkably insensitive decision, the school required her to use a staff bathroom after a grandparent of a male student complained that Maines shouldn’t be allowed in the little girls’ room.
Maines’ parents took her out of the school and sued the school, claiming their daughter’s potty segregation was a violation of Maine’s Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination against transgender people on the basis of their gender identity....
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Restrooms are one of the last explicit vestiges of segregation on the basis of sex. In a nation evolved enough to allow women to serve in combat and have women on the presidential ticket, we still maintain strict and outdated rules that discriminate in who can use which restroom. Even at liberal law schools like UCLA, where I teach, the bathrooms are all clearly marked for gender uses in a way that no one would accept for race: there are rooms labeled specifically for men and others specifically for women.
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They are going to need a lot more than 3 bathrooms
Last I checked, the sexuality-victims list was up to LGBTQIAA
When it is a “self-identify” yes.
You are a nice tolerant butthead. Do you honestly believe this person chooses this situation?
From the article:
Born a boy biologically, Maines now self-identifies as a girl,
Sure sounds to me that this BOY has chosen to go against nature.
My full time night job while attending college in the 60’s was night processing the days work into the data files and then checking to ensure the bank was empty before I left. I can assure anyone your comment is right on the mark. The poor janitor arrived at 5 in the morning and was always greeted with one messy room.
This BS has been going on here in MA for a couple of months and if any normal girl dares to complain about a perverted freak being in the girls bathroom, that normal girl will be punished.
And you’re an ignorant kneejerk pervert lover.
I’m sick and tired of accomodating this filth at the expense of righteousness and common sense. If that bothers you, GFY.
Another bastardization of the language by the liberals and we’re letting them get away with it.
Tolerance which used to mean to “put up with something you don’t really care for provided the person asking for tolerance is discreet about it” has been redefined as “you have to like and give me special treatment for my in-your-face foibles and if you don’t I will sue you”
Yes. With help from his parents.
But that doesn't mean the rest of us have to humor him. And he still has to use the men's room.
Tell me about it. I worked at gas station in my youth and there was one day in the womens room that to this day I can not figure out how that woman caused so much ......havoc. To decribe it would get this post pulled. Unbelievable.
But what about us transmogrified intersexuals?
Where are we supposed to pee?
Does she have the typical 15 year old girl’s penis and testicles?
Does that have to do with having sex with space aliens?
At a Rest Stop on the Intercontinental Highway.
Opps, I forgot, we homes school, no need to worry.
Girls bathroom stalls are private.
“And we are spending time debating this? What a nutty society!!!”
And what an intolerant bunch of posters. WTF difference does it make at this time anyway?
Stop funding this filth with your tax dollars vote against kiddie kennel budgets.
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