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..."
Survive and Succeed!
Let’s just put the kids in charge.
Then all those whippings I got in school could have been avoided had I simply proclaimed I was a wild monkey in a boy’s costume? Reparations, I tell ya!
Actually, the State of New York should lock up the parents of 4 and 5 year olds who make any assertion of gender confusion.
Or what if the girl says she is a Christian?
The 5-year old kid has no idea what his body parts will eventually be used for. The kid is just parroting what his parents tell him.
a lot of kids think they are unicorns or dinosaurs
NYS gonna add unicorn and dinosaur bathrooms?
And let’s not forget about gender fluidity. So maybe the teacher should ask each child to mark on the board what gender they are for that day so the teacher and all the students will know and can act accordingly.
Damnit, this is where I draw the line.
6 year olds can’t make decisions about their “gender identity”. They’re still learning to read!
This whole “transgender vogue” is just disgusting. Transexuality is a mental illness, and shouldn’t be humored like this. It shouldn’t be encouraged. Little Timmy putting on mommy’s high-heels doesn’t mean that he’s “transgendered” or “non-binary”, it means that he’s a three year old imitating what his parents do.
The liberals even have a whole damn propaganda comic dedicated to convincing kids they should be transgendered. http://assignedmale.tumblr.com/
This is tolerance taken too far. I refuse to humor people like this, who act like snobby, entitled assholes because they claim to be trans. http://i.imgur.com/1WCPs9U.png
Is this thing a female because it claims to be? No, it’s a guy in a dress http://i.imgur.com/x4zgVbY.png
The fact that we’re supposed to accept and encourage this crap makes me sick. I refuse to accept these perverts as anything other than the mentally ill welfare leeches they are.
Why am I amused by the idea of some little kid INSISTING they be called the Teacher?! Or the Principal? How about a kid insisting they sit in class naked because they’re an animal and animals don’t wear clothes? Maybe EVERY kid should pull some inane ridiculous claim like this-watch the whole insanity explode!
Remove your children immediately!
This can not be reformed.
My granddaughter insisted one being called “Princess Julianna” well pass kindergarten.
WTF???!!!
Sadly, some enter school knowing that already.
Perverting and corrupting children as young as possible is the goal of the nutcases.
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