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enough to allow women to serve in combat and have women on the presidential ticket, we still maintain strict and outdated rules that discriminate in who can use which restroom.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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Let’s all just pee in the streets like they do in Europe. Problem solved.
Shouldn’t you be on a Liberal site?
In Toronto a few years ago, the "gay pride" festival wound up adopting the acronym "LGBTTIQQ2SA" (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, intersex, queer, questioning, 2-spirited and allies) in order to be as "inclusive" as possible.
That list of possible genders is going to require a lot of extra bathroom space. I recommend repurposing the biology classrooms. They're obviously not using them.
Naw...but it's kind of like an inverted hemisexual. Those people like to have sex upside down in the back seat of a Chrysler.
It's their choice of course. Wait! What am I saying? They were born that way.
He, She, It. The exploitation of these confused slaves to humane machination devolves to new lows with each iteration.
Get thee to a Transhumanist/Postgenderist eunuchary, Nicholas.
“Shouldn’t you be on a Liberal site?”
Not hardly! II have voted -R for 50 years. But I abhor idiots and I find many on FR. What do you believe is the most pressing issue we face?
No matter how many girl parts this boy can grow, his genetic make up is still XY. No amount of hormones, surgery, and self-identifying can change that.
Stop adding to the acronyms, then we’ll need Xenosexuals and all the baggage associated with that.
I hate it when I am intercontinent.
“No amount of hormones, surgery, and self-identifying can change that.”
If you insist. I can’t say.
don't you mean Oh, the tranny.
People who are XY and want to be XX or vice-versa are still males or females, just want to be like the other (like pale folks who want to tan or michael jackson)
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