Posted on 07/28/2015 8:52:51 AM PDT by wagglebee
SODUS, NY, July 27, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- Boys or girls who suffer from gender dysphoria must be allowed to use the bathrooms and change rooms of the opposite sex if they wish to do so, according to new guidance from the New York State Department of Education (NYDE).
The document also clarifies that while schools can make “unisex” facilities available to such students, such facilities “should never be forced upon students, nor presented as the only option." Furthermore, schools should generally accept any student's stated preferred gender without question.
The advice is just one of the more controversial sections of the document, which also urges schools and teachers to call students entering kindergarten by their preferred gender, no matter their biological sex.
“It is recommended that schools accept a student’s assertion of his/her/their own gender identity,” states the document, giving the example of a pre-school child just entering kindergarten. “A student who says she is a girl and wishes to be regarded that way throughout the school day should be respected and treated like any other girl.”
The guidance also attempts to guide educators through the maze of counter-intuitive language that has been created by transgender activists, defining words and phrases like “cisgender,” “gender non-conforming,” and “gender variant,” while providing advice on how to navigate the thorny question of pronouns.
The document cites the federal Title IX in its reasoning, and also states, "New York State Education Law...prohibits discrimination based on sex with respect to admission into or inclusion in courses of instruction and athletic teams in public schools."
In 2014, the Obama administration changed the federal interpretation of Title IX, which was created in 1972 to prevent "discrimination on the basis of sex," to include transgenderism.
The administration’s novel interpretation of Title IX has been challenged.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorney Jeremy Tedesco told LifeSiteNews in June that the Obama administration's interpretation has no validity. According to Tedesco, a federal court in Pennsylvania had "rejected the Title IX claim" and "highlighted that Title IX’s implementing regulations state that schools do not violate Title IX when they 'provide separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex.'"
"Every court to consider this issue has held that single-sex restrooms and locker room facilities are permitted under Title IX," said Tedesco, who said that the change to Title IX "is not legally binding" and was "politically motivated."
"In fact, federal regulations expressly state that 'significant guidance documents' have no binding legal authority," he explained. "Further, the document does not mention access to restrooms and it does not change binding Title IX regulations authorizing schools to create 'separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex.'"
"It would take an act of Congress to include 'gender identity' as a protected status under Title IX," and "allowing students access to the opposite sex’s restrooms would violate the privacy rights of the vast majority of students and trample the rights of parents, as well.”
In a panel organized by LifeSiteNews last week, ADF attorney Casey Mattox said that "local school districts are well aware that the government doesn't actually have the authority to do anything like this under Title IX. But it gives them both the veneer of legal authority they need. They just pretend..."
So, if said student decides that she's a bird and wants to fly off the building should the school accept that as well?
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You know things are getting out of hand when the news headlines are identical to a recent south park episode.
The old fashioned roll call will have to be brought back to the classroom. Instead of “present”, students will be required to state what gender they feel like being that day.
May Our Lord return quickly.
““A student who says she is a girl and wishes to be regarded that way throughout the school day should be respected and treated like any other girl.”
Well, what if the girl says she’s Wonder Woman? So it’ll be “Wonder Woman, could you lead the class in singing the national anthem?” Liberals are retarded braindead imbeciles.
No child in kindergarten is old enough to make the choice that they are not what they were born as. That comes from adult influence. Also this would be extremely confusing to the rest of the children who would not understand why a boy was being called a girl and vice a versa......
The march toward legalized pedophilia continues.
Males, Females and “Others”...
—The document cites the federal Title IX in its reasoning...—
The satanic left uses whatever documents that suits their objectives. Words have meaning only to the extent it advances the perverse agenda.
Why is this not child abuse?
Way True Dat....
What a horrible idea. You’ve got all sorts of little girls who like cars and guns (the horror!) who given the chance will grow up to be moms and wives and who should NOT be exposed to 5th grade boys in the bathroom!
I won’t give her name or even the school, but the principal at our school was asked at a PTA meeting “How will you handle it when a child who thinks he or she is the opposite sex wants to use the bathroom that they feel is gender appropriate to them?”
She turned around and pointed to the boy’s restroom and said “If you have a penis you go in there, if you have a vagina you use the ladies room”. You could probably hear the applause from the parking lot :)
Aren’t transgendered kindergartners exceedingly rare? They don’t even know they’re confused at that age.
In fact, transgendered kindergartners must be far rarer than murders committed by illegal aliens, yet the Dems and La Raza are perfectly happy to overlook that as an insignificant problem.
And that takes a back seat to the latest fetal tissue for sale story. Planned Parenthood’s people should get in touch with Cartman’s people.
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Has it occurred to anyone that nearly EVERY teenage boy would use the girls locker room if given the choice?
Yes.
What are you, some sort of speciesist???
I want to be referred to as a Klingon.
Yes, and fatherly homicide would skyrocket haha
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