Posted on 03/27/2015 11:16:47 AM PDT by wagglebee
CHINO, CA, March 27, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Southern California’s Chino High School is facing outrage from parents and students alike after school administrators decided to keep secret a teacher’s plan to undergo a sex change in the middle of the school year.
The teacher in question, 32-year-old Michael Swager, showed up at work dressed and made up as a woman the morning of March 16, after eight years of teaching chemistry at the school as a man. The teacher informed students that the 6’6”, 300 lb. man they once knew as “Michael” was now a woman, and told them they should call him “Amanda.”
School administrators had known for two years that Swager was planning to make the transition from male to female, but chose not to warn students or parents ahead of time.
“Chino High School is aware of the teacher’s decision,” the school said in a statement. “It is a personal and private matter for the teacher.”
Swager’s case is complicated in that the teacher was raised as a boy after being born with ambiguous genitalia, as well as a condition called Kallmann Syndrome, which blocks sufferers from going through puberty without chemical assistance.
Because genetic testing was not widely available in the early 1980s, Swager’s parents were forced to choose for themselves whether to raise their child as a boy or a girl. In the end, they decided the baby was a boy, and named him Michael, giving him hormone injections in his early teens to simulate male puberty.
All the while, however, Swager felt as if “he” was really a “she.” In high school and college, Swager avoided the hormone treatments and began dressing as a female. Later genetic testing would reveal that Swager did indeed possess two X chromosomes, not the X and Y combination that makes someone genetically male.
“My parents chose the wrong sex,” Swager told the Chino Champion newspaper. “I look at myself in the mirror and I go, ‘I see a female body.’”
Upon learning the truth, Swager began taking female hormones to try and undo the effects of the male hormones she had been given as a young teen. Outside of work, she lived as a female, dressing in feminine clothing and dating men. But at work, she still presented herself as Michael – a man, albeit an androgynous one.
Swager said she originally planned to make her transition public after summer break in order to give her students and colleagues time to adjust. But then her private life and work life began to collide. After she changed her name to “Amanda Swager” on Facebook, a group of teens saw the page and confronted her about it at school. Meanwhile, another group of students spotted her at the movies with her boyfriend during spring break and took video with their smartphones. Swager decided it was time to come out, or risk being outed by the teens. She notified school staff of her intention to take her situation public in a letter issued Thursday, March 12. School officials kept mum, and Swager surprised the student body by showing up the following Monday wearing women’s clothing and calling herself Amanda.
The decision to keep Swager’s plans quiet upset both parents and students at the school, who said they would have liked more time to prepare for the change rather than leaving Michael Swager behind on Friday and coming back to Amanda Swager on Monday, without warning or explanation.
"In the end it's his choice. It's his life, but they should have at least said something about it so we could have known,” one student, Viviana Vasquez, told NBC-LA.
"On a Friday he was a man, on Monday he was woman," a parent told the network, speaking anonymously. One dad, Rusty, said he thought the abrupt transition would be disruptive to the learning process, as children struggle to understand what has happened to the popular teacher. “They’re going to want to know why did the teacher did what he did.”
But Swager dismissed such concerns as intrusive. “What’s there to notify you about?” Swager asked via CBS Los Angeles. “If I was pregnant and had a miscarriage, I wouldn’t notify you that I had a miscarriage. It’s a personal issue.”
I’ll accept that this may be a real condition, but perhaps being a teacher may not be the best of professions for someone with said condition.
hes a PSYCHOPATH..
he missed the REALITY BOAT
dosnt bother anyone?? Im certaain the students are by and large BOTHERED by this poor broken down freak
would the students DARE ask why he had himself mutilated??
teaching by EXAMPLE is exceptionally powerful.. and thus this sick MAN does not qualify as an APPROPRIATE teacher!!
I have to agree with this position. If you have a "Y" chromosome, you are a male. If you don't, you are a female. This person does not have a "Y" Chromosome, and is therefore Female, regardless of genitalia.
Now I would presume that this person has a uterus and ovaries, but I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere.
I express no support for the school but this particular individual has been medically wronged and is simply doing the right thing to try to approximate what she truly is by birth.
And guess what parents. You get to pay for his “fundemental transformation,” his salary, and his pension.
No, they weren't forced to choose. They were irresponsible and lazy and daddy probably wanted a boy. Tests for X and Y were available and the doctor should have told them to do the test. Common sense would have done the test.
You could say that hse lost some of hser ‘Swager’ in the process. :-\
A tragic case, actually, handled poorly all the way around... Of course, the “compassionate” Libs will fit this relatively unique case into their one-size-fits-all narrative to push their agenda.
Exactly! Just like with every other issue, this will now become the norm that will be used to justify all sorts of deviant actions.
Maybe you should read the story before shooting your mouth off, ..... oh wait I for got who I was addressing...
Now that you’ve had your good rant, it would be useful to go back and actually read beyond the headline.
Clear that you did not.
She’s got 2 X chromosomes, no Y. You get what that means, right? She’s a girl.
But this person did not naturally look outwardly masculine. She has Kallmann Syndrome, which (as the article notes) blocks the onset of puberty (and the resulting secondary sex characteristics). The only reason she had outwardly male characteristics was because she was artificially pumped full of testosterone and other male hormones during adolescence.
So, she did not "chemically or surgically mutilate" herself - she had surgery and treatments to correct surgicaly and chemical mutilations that happened years/decades earlier.
Well, if you'd read the article, you would have seen that SHE was surgically and chemically mutilated as an infant and child, when she didn't have a say in the matter. She recently had surgery and medical treatments to correct the mutilations.
But sure, keep calling her a psychopath.
And if the parents had chosen to go the female route on their ambiguously “gendered” baby after birth, it would have chosen to be a male about this same time.
Homos just want to change because they are reality contrarians.
I know. That’s exactly what I meant. No need for you to reiterate as if I meant something else. Thank you.
a “gender” switch...that is dressing as a member of the opposite sex is enough to INSPIRE me to call somrone a head case.
thats just REALITY!!
I’m wondering what type of genitals this person has? The article didn’t say how that supposed birth defect was remedied, if at all, only that hormone therapy was used.
And all of this medical information is really just on the word of the person involved. There is no way for the press to check out whether there really is a genetic issue here, the guy/girl just SAID that was the case.
a “gender” switch...that is dressing as a member of the opposite sex is enough to INSPIRE me to call somrone a head case.
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There is no gender switch here. She was born female.
thats just REALITY!!
RTFA.
Yeah, I noted that also.
Later genetic testing would reveal that Swager did indeed possess two X chromosomes, not the X and Y combination that makes someone genetically male.
This is pretty rare and is not a case of perversion as such.
However,the handling of the situation by the teacher and the school is horrible. The school administrators are cowardly incompetents and the teacher is a complete self centered jerk.
the IDENTITY....his indentity....was altered...while he was an adult..and sadly a ROLE model.
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