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Transgender Student Files Complaint After Being Banned From All-Male Dorm
CBS Cleveland ^ | March 21, 2012

Posted on 03/21/2012 12:30:13 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

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To: Former Fetus

Nice. Tuition money going to good use. Specific dorms for every sexual persuasion but scant monty to teach the students any useful skills or knowledge.


21 posted on 03/21/2012 12:53:19 PM PDT by tips up (Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m sure the judge could reach an equitable settlement.

There are two conflicting sets of problems here.

The first is a transgender who identifies as a male. The second is the other dorm residents who may feel uncomfortable with a transgender person who is allowed intimate access to their lives.

It shouldn’t be a problem. That is, the university no doubt has many jobs equivalent to a dorm resident assistant they could offer this person, that are in no way dependent on, or sensitive to gender.

While the law may say that this person cannot be discriminated against as far as being hired, at a particular pay level and grade, they law should in no way force either employment that makes someone sexually uncomfortable, or makes others sexually uncomfortable, in intimate surroundings.

There is an exception to jobs that require some degree of sexual intimacy, that they may be specific to a gender. But there is no legitimate way in which the law can require an employer to impose what is in effect sexual harassment, on its customers, based on the *desire* of a potential employee to have that particular job.


22 posted on 03/21/2012 12:55:18 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Queen Elizabeth has 10 times the lifespan of workers and lays up to 2,000 eggs a day...")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This reminds me of my favorite poet, Samuel Hoffenstein, who wrote: “Breathes there a man with hide so tough, Who says two sexes aren’t enough?”


23 posted on 03/21/2012 12:55:18 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: treetopsandroofs

Bossom Buddies, Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari


24 posted on 03/21/2012 12:56:14 PM PDT by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And I identify myself as a multi-millionaire....


25 posted on 03/21/2012 12:56:35 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (I love you,Pumpkin. You are the best cat in the world. You're my Sweet Pea.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
And if I want to enter a girls locker room I can self-identify as a female? Maybe like a 24 hour pass?
26 posted on 03/21/2012 12:59:04 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: LukeL

Thanks!


27 posted on 03/21/2012 12:59:36 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What happens when a person who was born a man, and identifies himself as a man, attempts to have sex with this person based on the fact that she is biologically female? Suppose they’re all drunk and he succeeds? Or what if a man who identifies himself as homosexual attempts to have sex with this person based on her identifying herself as male, only to find that he’s a she?

I’m very grateful that all the people in my life are, in fact, the sex they think they are.


28 posted on 03/21/2012 1:02:37 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Number-one Son earns Eagle Scout. Family collapses in relief. Where's the wine?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“As soon as I’m in a space that is all female, my identity gets erased.”
The big problem isn't that there exists a person who would seriously make such a statement, but that we live in a society that takes such statements seriously.
29 posted on 03/21/2012 1:03:22 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: tips up

The university does offer gender neutral housing, but this student (who is still legally and officially identified as a female) refuses to accept placement there.

I can see how the university would be backed into a corner if this person had taken surgical and legal steps . But this is a “self-identification.”


30 posted on 03/21/2012 1:08:04 PM PDT by Burkean (.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I agree... we need more lesbians showering in men’s latrines!!!

Why would any man not want that?!? Well, unless she’s hideous...

Why, towel snapping would be so much more fun!

:-P


31 posted on 03/21/2012 1:08:40 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“The problem is, I’m a male-identified person,” Kass told WLWT-TV. “As soon as I’m in a space that is all female, my identity gets erased.”

You know, I have the same problem. I, too, am a "male-identified person." Been that way for years. But, unlike Mr(?) Kass, when I'm in a space that is all female my male identity becomes, shall we say, "enhanced." Mr. Kass must have something wrong with him if he has different feelings.

Maybe it needs to decide once and for all what sex it is.

32 posted on 03/21/2012 1:14:37 PM PDT by upchuck (Where others hold a window into the world, nobama holds a mirror. h/t - Don Surber)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

For a long time, now, I’ve thought “trans-gender” meant the person actually physically changed their sex. Now I see that it means they just “think” they’ve changed their sex.

So, now we have...

male
female
homosexual
lesbian
bi-sexual
trans-sexual (which are the ones who go under the knife, I guess...ugh)
and trans-gender

I’m sure there will be something new come along soon.
What a world....


33 posted on 03/21/2012 1:24:14 PM PDT by babyfreep
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Why does this disturbed individual get the right to force its disturbance on others?


34 posted on 03/21/2012 1:28:17 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Newt/Sarah 2012)
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To: babyfreep

Seems male and female have enough delegates to capture the party’s nomination. The other 5 should just drop out of the race...you know...for the good of the party.


35 posted on 03/21/2012 1:29:44 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

My name is Ms. Tucks , and I will be the hemorrhoid on the backside of your college, sorta-like Fluke. But you can just call me an open sore if you like.


36 posted on 03/21/2012 1:36:52 PM PDT by Joshua Marcus
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Why does this disturbed individual get the right to force its disturbance on others?

Because it's not politically correct to think of this individual as "disturbed" and she is milking it to the bone (so to speak). Trans-gender is not a race and you and I know it, but those who want to fundamentally transform America would have us think it is and they guilt those who buy into that notion by insinuating bigotry.

I miss the old days.

37 posted on 03/21/2012 1:43:58 PM PDT by babyfreep
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is stupid. This person should be classified as a retard.

You are what you are and it doesn’t matter one bean what you “identify” as.


38 posted on 03/21/2012 1:54:25 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: JustCallMeFrank
Hell my male identity would be enhanced in an all female space...
39 posted on 03/21/2012 2:00:12 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If he/she/it were really identified as a male, he/she/it would consider it a stroke of great fortune to be in the female dorm.

It’s likely to be neater, to smell better, and best of all, it’s full of college-aged women.


40 posted on 03/21/2012 2:00:54 PM PDT by Maceman (Liberals' only problem with American slavery is that the slaves were privately owned.)
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