Posted on 06/17/2013 5:48:34 AM PDT by servo1969
Maine’s 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 girl’s 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 girl’s 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 I’m pleased to be here and to have our case heard, and I’m 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.
True transgenderism or transsexualism is, essentially, a birth defect, in essence no different than being born with club feet or a cleft palate.
Typically, males have a large hypothalamus, and females have a smaller hypothalamus. Sometimes, though, babies are born with the “wrong” size hypothalamus. This results in a person who is biologically male who truly, honestly sees themselves as female, or vice versa.
A simple MRI can confirm whether this child has the wrong size hypothalamus. If so, let her use the girl’s bathroom. If not, then the child is not truly transsexual, but is a cross-dresser and should be made to use the boys’ restroom. Pretty simple, really.
I hopw they understand (eventually - the sooner the better) how important it is for students to go to school without having psychopathic mental illness and depraved perversion shoved in their faces.
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The fact that this is even a "rational" topic for a news article and law suit shows the depths of depravity and insanity to which our country has sunk. I don't have my quote file on my computer right now or I'd find the one about our constitutioanl Replublic only working with a religious and moral population. Screaming nosedive time. It has to turn around, but it looks as though it'll crash first.
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lololorotflololol! Politically correct!
When will teenagers and any under 25 understand they are in no position to determine what sex they want to be....it was decided for them...live with it!
BTW...His parents need to be examined as well...
With parents of kids as they are today...you can be sure that will happen.
This thread is cracking me up!lololol
Which bathroom?
I wouldn’t let them in either. :>)
This is amusing in some respects, but appalling in others. If you don’t want your kids exposed to this, there is one solution (Metmom, that’s your cue).
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Government K-12 socialist-entitlement schools remain open because conservatives and Christians send their children to them.
There are entire counties and whole states where, if Christians and conservatives removed their children, the entire collectivist system of schooling would completely collapse.
God is not likely to save this nation. Why?
Answer:
Abortion. Millions of Christians and conservatives can show up to buy a chicken sandwich but can’t figure out a way to stop abortion? Really?
Government collectivist and godless schooling.
It is EVIL EVIL EVIL to send children into godless and socialist schools where they **WILL** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the government school. It is evil to send children into collectivist schools where they risk learning that any voting mob powerful enough to give them tuition-free schooling is powerful enough to steal from their neighbor to give them **lots** of free stuff.
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