Posted on 06/23/2013 8:17:15 PM PDT by Steelfish
Rights Unit Finds Bias Against Transgender Student
Coy Mathis, 6, center, played video games in March while at home in Fountain, Colo., with her sister Dakota, left, and their mother, Kathryn. By DAN FROSCH Published: June 23, DENVER — A Colorado school district discriminated against a transgender first grader when it refused to let her use the girl’s bathroom, the state’s civil rights division has determined, a decision gay and transgender advocates say will have an indelible impact on how such cases are handled in the future.
In a sharply worded ruling, the division concluded that the Fountain-Fort Carson School District needlessly created a situation in which the student, Coy Mathis, would be subject to harassment when it barred her from the girls’ bathroom even though she clearly identified as female.
Telling Coy “that she must disregard her identity while performing one of the most essential human functions constitutes severe and pervasive treatment, and creates an environment that is objectively and subjectively hostile, intimidating or offensive,” Steven Chavez, the division director, wrote in the decision.
The dispute over whether Coy, 6, should be allowed to use the girls’ bathroom was seen by some as a critical test of how state antidiscrimination laws were applied to transgender students.
Born biologically a boy, Coy began identifying as a girl after just a few years, growing her wispy blond hair long, wearing dresses, and telling family and friends they should refer to her as female.
During kindergarten, Coy’s parents informed her school that their child identified as a girl and should be treated as one. Initially, the school, just south of Colorado Springs, agreed.
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And it was George Orwell’s cynicism I was mocking you with, Mr. Kettle.
Directed towards the proper target, such cynicism would certainly be applicable. The products of today’s public school system are exhibiting more and more signs of being in a George Orwell novel.
Directing it towards homeschoolers seems counterproductive, given that they’re outperforming their public and private school brethren in greater numbers.
Not directing it towards homeschoolers, just you. Despite your statistically likely tonnage, you’re still too small a sample to be representative.
Buzz off 007 Hedge Hog.
I wonder how an outside observer would view this exchange?
You’re not doing your position any favors with your infantile attitude.
Are obese individuals whose video game edumacation endowed them with such a robust world view that they felt compelled to convert to the Roman’s State-Established Syncretic Sun-Worshipping cult — too small a sample to be statistically representative of home skewlers?
Maybe you and Adam Perlman/Gadan should compare home-skewl. notes.
http://archive.adl.org/terrorism/profiles/Adam_Gadahn/background.asp?m_flipmode=4
Have a nice day, 007 Hedge Hawg.
Throughout this whole thread, you are the one who's harped on home-schooling to the practical exclusion of everything else. Not the insane decision of the school to indulge this '6-year-old transgender' foolishness, or the implicit reality that the parent(s) are indulging and feeding this idea.
Instead, you draw upon past experiences as justification for your attitude. Understandable; if you got roaches in your food the first few times you went to an Olive Garden, you'd never want go to another one again, regardless of the performance between franchises. So I point out that your sample size is too small and too skewed to make a statistically valid conclusion.
Your response? Ad hominem. Quoting a profile unused for nearly a decade to harp on a childhood hobby. Equating me with Adam Gadahn, even though our circumstances and teaching methodologies were so far removed from each other that he might as well be on another planet, 'but you both home-schooled so you MUST be similar'! Etcetera.
The most annoying part is that you're clearly an intelligent person. You have a clear grasp on the importance of parental involvement, and how children are far more likely to succeed - regardless of schooling choice - when parents are more involved.
As far as the percentages go, the growing home-school crowd (as of this point in America) is showing a far greater rate of parental involvement overall compared to the public or private school crowd, judging by the educational outcomes. Not that that stops those in the educational establishment and their media hounds from gleefully harping on stereotypes whenever possible, latching onto any examples they can to smear the entire movement (like you've been doing). They wouldn't do that to the hordes of increasingly feral children prowling the halls of many public schools today, because a growing home-school movement represents one thing above all else: less control by the state over the next generation.
But all I hear from you is 'well whatever FATASS I'm gonna keep calling you FATASS because you played games as a kid and you're probably a dumb-Neanderthal-terrorist-in-the-making who's still gonna be a FATASS you FATASS have I mentioned that you're a probably a FATASS yet'? Like a high school jock who never grew up and and never realized that his shtick is banal. Bland. Cliche.
So I'll just call you Biff Tannen.
1) Millions can show up for a chicken sandwich but can't figure out how to stop abortion. Really?
2) The overwhelming majority of Christian families turn their children over to GODLESS indoctrinators in GODLESS K-12 and university level schools. While in these “schools” they must think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the classroom.
I doubt that God is happy with us.....and.....I now believe it is too late to avoid the inevitable catastrophe.
LOL.
Have a nice day Hedge Hawg.
I'd say that homeschoolers should be held to the **same** standards as the government's institutionalized K-12 children. If illiterate and innumerate is considered passing in the K-12 government indoctrination centers than that should be acceptable, as well, for homeschoolers.
[If illiterate and innumerate is considered passing in the K-12 government indoctrination centers than that should be acceptable, as well, for homeschoolers.]
In some (statistically insignificant) cases, it evidently is.
Given the bell curve it should be expected.
Yep
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