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High schools changing rules for gowns at commencement
Boston Globe ^ | May 16, 2015 | Jeremy C. Fox

Posted on 05/17/2015 3:55:43 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

For years, Sharon High School parents had help finding their sons and daughters among the sea of gowns on graduation day: boys all sported deep maroon, while girls wore pristine white.

But last year, students approached principal Jose Libano with a proposal: end the tradition, which alienated some students. Now, all graduates wear maroon.

Around the region, longstanding customs of assigning graduation colors by sex are giving way to new realities, driven by transgender student activists and supportive educators and classmates of all stripes.

The change reflects a growing awareness that simple categories of male and female do not fit every teenager.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: arth; commencement; education; gown; gowns; graduation; graduationday; highschool; highschools; lgbt; transgender
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"Some are sorting out their gender identity."

This is the new progress?

1 posted on 05/17/2015 3:55:43 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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normal people have their “gender identity” sorted before they are 2

“Oh look, I go a pee pee, I’m a boy!”


2 posted on 05/17/2015 3:57:21 PM PDT by GeronL (NEW ARRIVALS -> 99 cents buy here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/541331)
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Well, there was that commencement scene at the end of “Patch Adams”, lol.


3 posted on 05/17/2015 4:01:32 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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The quest to normalize deviancy is becoming more severe and unrelenting.

Satan: “I am no devil for there is none, and there is no God and therefore there is no sin, except for whatever I happen to condemn.”

Sums it up pretty well, in my opinion.


4 posted on 05/17/2015 4:01:46 PM PDT by JustTheTruth
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I guess you have all kinds of time to sort out your gender when the employment prospects for their generation is bleak


5 posted on 05/17/2015 4:03:06 PM PDT by LMAO (("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush))
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I tend to think this is a fad, which may last a decade or two. Then, the high schoolers will see Grandad and Granmas Cap and Gown pic’s online, and become envious, or at least curious.


6 posted on 05/17/2015 4:03:20 PM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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Attention whores/queers, hollering, “hey, everybody, look at me”!


7 posted on 05/17/2015 4:03:34 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (`)
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Did/do these people have to register for selective service like 18-year-old-males? Then again, under President Hillary Clinton that could be deemed sexist and 18 year-old-women will have to register in order to attain college loans. Now, what about those who question their body parts? To register or not to register?


8 posted on 05/17/2015 4:06:32 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Mars Attacks press conference scene: *androgynous person says in heavily wrong voice* “Do the aliens have two sexes like we do?”


9 posted on 05/17/2015 4:08:43 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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driven by transgender student activists and supportive educator

cause, you know, they represent the majority of people.

10 posted on 05/17/2015 4:09:03 PM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Francis)
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The change reflects a growing awareness that simple categories of male and female do not fit every teenager.

Evidently biology has escaped everyone in the district...

11 posted on 05/17/2015 4:09:41 PM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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All Lads will wear a full Scots Kilt in the McElison CLAN Tarten.

That's CLAN with C, not NOT A K.
12 posted on 05/17/2015 4:11:29 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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“The change reflects a growing awareness that simple categories of male and female do not fit every teenager.”

Honestly, I have no clue as to how to respond to that statement, except to say that it is more of an indictment against the adults. How can such insanity be trotted out as wisdom?


13 posted on 05/17/2015 4:11:34 PM PDT by odawg
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They were not capable of distinguishing....My rule would have been if you have a penis, maroon is your color...if you don’t...white is it....discussion OVER.


14 posted on 05/17/2015 4:14:28 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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Simple question....the biology teacher couldn’t tell the difference between male and female>>>>>>see ya!


15 posted on 05/17/2015 4:16:23 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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>sarc>All Lads will wear a full Scots Kilt in the McElison CLAN TartEn.

That's CLAN not with a K but a C..
16 posted on 05/17/2015 4:20:55 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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William F Buckley’s home town.


17 posted on 05/17/2015 4:24:00 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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I’ll lay money on it the idea to do this did not originate within the student body itself but rather a perv activist organization who made the suggestion


18 posted on 05/17/2015 4:29:39 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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The battle is lost when it comes to government schools. Those of you taking refuge at private religious schools must be on guard for the SJW youth ministers, liberal lay people, and those wacky English teachers who want your kids to read filth.


19 posted on 05/17/2015 4:30:05 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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The battle is lost when it comes to government schools. Those of you taking refuge at private religious schools must be on guard for the SJW youth ministers, liberal lay people, and those wacky English teachers who want your kids to read filth.


20 posted on 05/17/2015 4:30:15 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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