"In May, 2004, the International Olympics Committee ruled that so-called transgendered individuals could compete in opposite sex events if they could prove they had taken hormones for two years and they had their “new” sex officially recognized. This insanity will make it more difficult for women to compete in events where male-to-female individuals are involved."
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Well that's nothing new. The Russians and East Germans had been doing that for years...
I fail to see how putting the spotlight on these ("mentally"?) ill individuals and instilling disgust in conservative America will break "down some barriers for the transgender community". But hey, it's there dream -- let 'em make it as big as they want to. I only hope their videos will do as much for them as Howard Dean has done for the D.N.C.
"And in New York City in April, 2005, Pauline Park, a man who is a transgender activist but has not had a sex change operation, won the right to use women’s restrooms in that city. Park describes himself as a “male bodied woman” and heads the New York Association of Gender Rights Advocacy. He claims that his biological sex is different than his “gender identity” so he should be free to use women’s restrooms."
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Pauline Park may soon earn further distinction as the first sexually ambiguous individual to be savagely "bashed" to death by women instead of men. Don't tell me women can't get just as threatened and outraged.
A phantasmagoric fetish, based on belief. The idolatry of perversion, a cult movement...
What business of mine is it what's under a woman's skirt unless I plan to grope her?
Methuen school faces parents' queries on student's gender issue
Officials back girl who seeks treatment as boy
By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff | March 5, 2005
Dozens of parents flooded the Methuen school system with phone calls yesterday after a local newspaper reported that a fourth-grade girl had returned from the February school break requesting to be treated as a boy.
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The story has attracted the attention of local and national media, including a half-dozen television stations, according to Superintendent Phillip Littlefield, who spent most of yesterday fielding parent and media calls.
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Littlefield said the child has asked to be called a masculine version of his name, which the superintendent declined to disclose, upon the family's request. Other than that, nothing has changed, he said, and most of the 1,100 students at the Comprehensive Grammar School are taking the situation in stride. The child has not undergone sexual reassignment surgery, he said.
''For the kids who aren't close to him, it was Phyllis and now it's Phillip," said Littlefield, using other names for examples. ''And it's OK. They want to know what's for lunch."
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In 1999, Brockton school officials barred a 15-year-old student who is biologically male, but identifies as female, from attending school dressed in girl's clothing. A school psychologist diagnosed the student with transgendered disorder when the teenager was 13, in seventh grade, and the student started wearing makeup, skirts, wigs, and padded bras to school. The state Appeals Court upheld a Superior Court ruling in 2000 that a transgender male student can wear female clothing to class.
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Littlefield said the school has made appropriate accommodations for the child at the parents' request, but he said he has promised the parents confidentiality and could not be more specific. If students bring home questions that parents cannot answer, he said, they should call the school to speak to a staff member familiar with gender identity issues.
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Complete article:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/05/methuen_school_faces_parents_queries_on_students_gender_issue/
For more information about the rights of transgender students in Massachusetts public schoools, see:
http://www.transgenderlaw.org/resources/transyouthflyer.pdf
From what I understand the documentry is to inform people, not 'normalize'.
But if I remember correctly, the "Traditional Values Coalition" did a study a few years ago on transsexuals that did not include any input from transsexuals.
The TVC likes to preach with their collective head in the sand.
Nutcases watching nutcases. Rome circa 300 ace comes to mind.