Posted on 06/12/2013 5:13:24 PM PDT by Former Fetus
Maine's highest court heard arguments Wednesday over whether transgender students can use the bathroom of their choice, and the girl at the heart of the case said she hoped justices would recognize the right of children to attend school without being "bullied" by peers or administrators.
Nicole Maines, now 15, watched lawyers argue over whether her rights were violated when the Orono school district required her to use a staff bathroom after there was a complaint about her using the girls' bathroom.
Maines said after the hearing in Bangor that she hopes the Supreme Judicial Court will ensure no one else experiences what she went though.
"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 the administration, and to be accepted for who they are," said Maines, who now attends a high school in southern Maine.
Her family and the Maine Human Rights Commission sued in 2009 over the school's actions, but a state judge ruled that the school district acted within its discretion. Maines is a biological male who from an early age identified as a girl.
At issue is whether the school violated the Maine Human Rights Act, which bars discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation. State law also requires separate bathrooms for boys and girls in schools.
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Or one like this:
Funny how the moron NEWS media now reports neurotic delusions as fact.
Totally ignored reality in the very first sentence!
same here, if my boys came home and said they wanted to wear a dress then I’d be having a massive word with them but alas I raised them right and they like girls and are future good men.
Choosing the Sandra Fluke look is NOT going to help or improve your situation with the court!
That boy in the center looks like a gay boy, nothing more, nothing less.
Wow. I really thought that was a girl. Seriously does anyone else?
[[Maine’s highest court heard arguments Wednesday over whether transgender students can use the bathroom of their choice,]]
Hmmm, gettign a judge to grant oyu an exclusive right to get yer jollies in whichever bathroom you prefer- Gee- why didn’t heterosexuals think of htis years ago? “Yuo see judge, we heterosexuals feel you are beign unfair to our perverted natures by denyign us the right to occupy the opposite sex’s restrooms and showers- You really aught to be more udnerstandign judge- shame on you”
Calling it a HER is incorrect.
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