Posted on 07/15/2013 5:14:27 PM PDT by onyx
A six-year-old boy in the US state of Colorado has won the right to use the girls’ toilets at school because he is transsexual.
Meanwhile, in a similar case in Australia, a nine-year-old boy has also won the right to use the girls’ toilets.
And new laws in California mean transsexual students can choose to join either girls’ or boys’ sports teams at school.
In Colorado, the parents of six-year-old Coy Matthis took their son’s school to a civil rights panel, claiming it was discrimination to disallow their son from using the bathroom of the gender with which he identifies.
In December 2012 school officials said Coy must use the boys’ toilets or the staff bathrooms.
The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund assisted the Matthis’ case and welcomed the decision.
Executive Director Michael Silverman said the ruling sent out a clear message to schools that transgender students must be treated equally in schools.
In southeast Queensland Australia, a nine-year-old boy has been told by the region’s Education department that he can use the girls’ toilets and join girls’ sports teams at his primary school.
His mother had planned to lodge a gender identity discrimination complaint after teachers said the child must use a unisex toilet when he came to school dressed as a girl at the start of the year.
Now Education Queensland North Coast regional director Colin Allen-Waters has said the student can use the female toilets and compete in girls’ sports events.
Politicians in California have passed a controversial Bill which would allow students to access bathrooms and changing rooms of the gender they have chosen.
The legislation, which must now be signed into law by the State’s Governor Jerry Brown, would also mean transgender students can choose a sports team of the gender with which they identify.
The proposals have come under fire from critics who say students may exploit the new law.
Can someone please explain to me how a 6 year old is mature enough to know that he’d be happier as a girl????
This is so messed up on so many levels. His parents should be arrested for abuse.
touché
Only after Travon's bio parental units.
I don’t see how they can restrict any person from using either gender bathroom, or playing in either gender sport. It would clearly be discrimination based on sexual preference if they did. Haw no one floated a test case?
This is so messed up on so many levels.Indeed! I don't know how parents can mess up a kid that much in so few years, but evidently they have an agenda.
LOLOLOLOL.
The state of CO has gone certifiably insane. I once had hopes if retiring there on some acreage in Teller County, but when the state government went gaga over restricting gun rights and generally turning CO into a vassal state of California, I sold that property fairly quickly. I am now completely severed from CO, thank God....
I don’t believe any child that age can really be confused about their sexual idenity. They probably heard about it and are trying to be cute/attract attention. Stupid parents jump
on this and encourage the child instead of waiting for it to blow over- thus setting him on a path to destroy his life.
It makes me sick what those “parents” are doing to that child. In Old America, they’d have been roundly condemned for it... In perverted New America, they’re regarded as progressive heroes.
Way back when my Brother knew Bill Lear’s (Lear Jet) Son. He owned a B-25.
One of these days I’m going to take a ride in one of those.
Yes, I am paying more attention to the Plane than the Models. They’re Cute but the Plane is Gorgeous.
The mental illness can go even deeper. If the parents run the full course, the will put the child on hormone therapy and then sex reassignment surgery when he is old enough. He will never see puberty and it will all be paid for by the state and unwilling taxpayers.
I’d be happy with both...
I give even odds they’ll find little girls bodies in his back yard. ‘It puts the lotion on or it gets the hose again...’
Taking a Ride in the Plane is cheaper, believe me.
“I choose to shower with the Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior girls”
And that’s just the medical costs...
yup, 50/50 chance, no bet...
Exactly. This is the parents, not the 6 year old. A 6 year old is not a "pervert." Its the parents pushing this and its child abuse, pure and simple.
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