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High School Becomes First In PA To Adopt Transgender Bathroom Policy
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Posted on 04/28/2016 5:43:30 AM PDT by Phillyred

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa (CBS) – Some people never give the signs on the bathrooms a second thought, but that’s not the case for transgender students like Evan Petersen, a junior at Springfield Township high school.

“I definitely didn’t wanna use women’s bathroom, and I was scared to use the men’s bathroom because I wasn’t out at school yet,” said Peterson. “So I just didn’t go to the bathroom during the whole school day.”

“It’s awful it’s a very bad feeling,” said Christine Settino a teacher. “That’s the kind of thing that makes you want to do something and make change.”

Last week, the Springfield Township School District became one of the first in Pennsylvania to officially adopt a policy allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms of the gender they identify with, not the one on their birth certificates.

“We know this isn’t without controversy,” said Dr. Nancy Hacker, the superintendent. “But regardless, we wanted to make a statement that as a school district, this is who we are, this is what we believe, and we will support all our students, no matter who they believe they are.”

One critic, the Pennsylvania Family Institute, sent Eyewitness news a statement of its own that reads in part:

“In those areas, the only relevant reason we have different facilities is biological sex, not our beliefs, feelings, or attractions.”

But others say it’s a matter of equality.

“For the lucky ones of us born as the gender we identify as, we get to be who we truly are, so for some students who don’t feel that way, it can ruin their high school experience,” said Cate Ryan, student council president.

(Excerpt) Read more at philadelphia.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bathroomwars; education; paping
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To: Phillyred

Collage campuses provide “safe spaces” for precious snowflakes but women can not have a “safe space” to use the bathroom.

Liberals are hypocrites.


41 posted on 04/28/2016 7:19:25 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: ConservativeWarrior
I completely ignored her when I worked there.

That's exactly what I did with the TacoBell Dykes. I knew they wanted to shock and awe and I gave them zero attention.

42 posted on 04/28/2016 7:25:11 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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To: Phillyred

Tables turned girl invades males bathroom! She thinks she’s a male.
Words Mean Whatever the Left Decides They Mean
http://freedomdaily.com/words-mean-whatever-left-decides-mean/


43 posted on 04/28/2016 7:26:24 AM PDT by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: Rusty0604
For some transgenders, if reincarnation exists (read books about Edgar Cayce), it may be as simple as a reincarnation gone bad.

Suppose a soul had been alive as a female for 50 to 100 lives or so.

Then the soul is born into a male body.

After being used to being a female so many times, the person is now very confused.

If a past lives regression were done by a completely neutral person assisting, the results might be interesting.

44 posted on 04/28/2016 7:28:24 AM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: Phillyred

You mean commiefornica is not the first?


45 posted on 04/28/2016 7:29:04 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: Mogger

They say past lives can also have been animals. That explains a lot.


46 posted on 04/28/2016 7:56:22 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I believe I’m the principal of this school. Please give me the appropriate online banking password.


47 posted on 04/28/2016 7:57:38 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Tell the truth and shame the Devil.)
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To: Travis McGee
let-him-into-the-bathroom.jpg

it's "HER" you CIS shaming gender norming bigot !! (/g)
48 posted on 04/28/2016 11:46:12 AM PDT by stompk
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To: arl295
" They do it for the attention, nothing more it really is some sort of mental problem in the long run Transgenders also have a high suicide rate, the highest of any other group"

I was told that the suicides were only because of the hate they receive from us CIS insensitive gender-norming bigots (or some such thing)
49 posted on 04/28/2016 11:47:55 AM PDT by stompk
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To: Travis McGee
What happened to everyone else's Amendment Number One right to pee-ceably assemble?

-PJ

50 posted on 04/28/2016 12:06:04 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: MortMan

No kidding. And shouldn’t she, he, it, whatever, have to register for the selective service like all the other men at 18?


51 posted on 04/28/2016 12:12:41 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: Phillyred

Equality? How is it equality when the .3% transgendered can use the facility of their choice but the 99.7% cisgendered must continue using the restroom of their biology?


52 posted on 04/28/2016 12:47:23 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: Travis McGee

Dang! Congrats on your AJ interview..!

Why didn’t you give us a heads-up ahead of time..?!

I was just driving along and all of a sudden it was YOU..!

Sounds like he loves you, I’ll bet you’re on again, real soon.

THIS is the national exposure I suggested 3 weeks ago u maybe seek out via Coast to Coast, but Alex is a great national channel, too.

I’m not a regular listener of his, so it was random luck I happened across your interview.

Wowee! Now I’ll be things take off for your books.

Really praying.

I like your books MORE than Clancy..!

Success puzzles me more and more.


53 posted on 04/28/2016 4:35:51 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

I didn’t know if it aired live or what. I have only seen youtube clips of the show.


54 posted on 04/28/2016 7:33:35 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I can speak only to the last 3 minutes being aired, in addition to AJ’s regret for the technical hiccup at the very end, which apparently ended your segment.

I was kicking myself for having mostly missed it on the radio, and only the next day (today) chased down the rest on YouTube, as you apparently have.

I am only assuming that presuming the previous part also aired (I’m on California coast and was listening to KSCO, 1080 am at around 8:50 pm PST).

But I’m hoping he has you back and if he does that you’ll give us the heads-up on FR.


55 posted on 04/28/2016 7:40:38 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

That snafu at the end of the show was my fault, I was rambling right into a hard break.


56 posted on 04/28/2016 9:00:55 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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