Posted on 06/17/2013 5:48:34 AM PDT by servo1969
Maines highest court will soon decide which restroom Nicole Maines, a 15-year-old transgendered student, should use.
Last week the state supreme court heard oral arguments about whether a school district violated her civil rights when it forbid her from using the girls restroom. She was in fifth grade at the time.
Maines is biologically male but has identified as female since she was very young. As such, she wished to use the girls restroom. State law, however, mandates that boys and girls use separate facilities. Her school told her to use the staff restroom instead.
These requirements violate the Maine Human Rights Act, which bars gender discrimination in schools, claim the Maines family and their supporters, including the Maine Human Rights Commission and various LGBT groups.
At the core of this case is whether the promise of equal educational opportunities for transgender students is realized, said Jennifer Levi, director of the Transgender Rights Project for the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, in a statement.
Maines said that she felt singled out and embarrassed because of the restroom policy.
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 administration, and be accepted for who they are, she said in a statement.
Maines enjoys the full support of her family, including her twin brother, who is not transgendered.
Her father was hopeful that the court would side with them.
It has been extremely difficult, but Im pleased to be here and to have our case heard, and Im very hopeful for a good outcome, said Wayne Maines in a statement.
The state supreme court is the next step for the Maines family, who lost in superior court earlier this year. The court sided with district administrators, who maintain that they are only upholding state law. To properly resolve the restroom issue for trangendered students, legislative action is required, they argued.
Reconciling transgendered students with school policies has become a thorny issue as of late. The family of a transgendered first-grader in Colorado is also suing the school district over restroom usage.
Have separate bathroom facilities for all DIY/homemade-gendered students.
I agree. Public schools are beyond saving. Kids are better off dropping out of school rather than going to one.
No, they should all leave their excrement at the court that is deciding this matter.
I am going to have to read it!
you must be racist .. or homophobic.,.. or ... somethign
That is too simple because you can whack a penis off. It should be determined by chromosomes. If you have a Y chromosome you are a man period I don’t care what you plumbing is like.
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I take my 6-year-old niece to the women’s restroom and wait right outside the entrance.
That’s the best I can do if there’s no one else to do it.
If they let a boy who says he’s a girl use the girl’s restroom, then all the girls must be allowed to use the teachers lounge toilet.
That or the school needs to make a transgendered restroom.
The one labeled “Freaks”.
Define “transgendered”. It seem “teachers”, read: Liberals, are trying to confuse children as to their gender. They tell them from day one at 4 years old that they are not little boys and girls but they can be anything they want to be. Child abuse is all this is.
The concept is ludicrous.
This is a matter of idiot parents catering to children’s fantasies.
Schools should be expected to pander to them.
What does their original birth certificate say?
IT was offered the staff Bathroom, But was not good enough for the IT. IT needs the social Activities of the Chicks Bathroom, is what it all comes down to. Or is 5 to ten toilets for a choice of which one to use a prerequisite of using the facility.
I am now in the opinion that we need new schools for transgendered ITS, a new bus system, IT’S own administration and staffed only with like ITS. After all we have to be fair to the ITS of the world!
How all the past generations managed to use the correct restroom without a law to guide them is astounding.
Having bathrooms labeled Boys and Girls is by its very definition discrimination. If we're going to have a society free from discrimination, lets force everyone to use the same facilities. Let's not permit the Congressional Black Caucus to use the term "black", as it's used to discriminate themselves from others. Wow, we live in an effed up society.
lol
I thought they were both originally girls!
lol
now the picture makes since. It’s always easier for a guy to look like a girl than vice versa.
Gigadee gig-a-dee goo.
Cross your legs and hold it until you get home?
hilarious!
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