Posted on 11/20/2019 4:00:51 PM PST by Altura Ct.
The school board of District 211 in Illinois voted last week, in a 5 – 2 decision, to allow biological males into the female locker room at Palatine High School. The board said that all students should be “treated and supported in a manner consistent with their gender identity.” This “support” apparently necessitates obliterating the privacy and safety of every girl at the school.
A student named Nova Maday, a biological male who identifies as transgender, filed a lawsuit in 2017. The lawsuit came after a Department of Education mandate in 2015 forced Palatine High to allow boys like himself into bathrooms and locker rooms with girls. The school tried to strike a compromise, inviting the gender-confused males into girl-designated areas but setting aside a separate, private area for them to use. Maday was not happy with this compromise. He demanded access not just to the girls locker room, but to the exact same area where the girls change. His basic human rights are apparently violated in horrific fashion if he is not able to actually see girls get naked and himself get naked in front of them.
The school board found his deranged arguments convincing, and now every girl in the school must shut up and cooperate as biological males invade their private spaces. If you need any help in understanding why this situation is egregiously immoral and insane, a video from the Daily Herald may help. A Herald reporter interviewed Maday before and after the school board vote. They also interviewed a female student, Julia Burca. The contrast between their two reactions is stark. In fact, even if you don’t need help understanding why this is crazy, I’d still recommend following the link and watching the rather striking footage.
Maday, sporting a “Queen” shirt and long pink hair, celebrates the decision. He says he is “ecstatic,” calling the new policy a “great step forward.” Naturally, however, he still complains that it doesn’t go quite far enough. “It’s not everything we wanted,” he says, but it’s a “first step” towards “many more steps.”
The tenor changes dramatically with Julia’s reaction. Her voice shaking and tears in her eyes, she says that she is “uncomfortable that my privacy is being invaded.” She explains that she is a swimmer and therefore has to get changed “multiple times, naked, in front of the other students in the locker room.” Yet even in the face of this outrageous trampling of her basic privacy rights, she still attempts to be as generous as possible to the other side, acknowledging the school’s “obligation to all students” but arguing that she should also be accommodated.
Now, I don’t think the school board or Maday or the trans activists pushing this deserve even the slight concession she offers them. But I want to highlight the contrast between the two sides. Maday has no evident concern whatsoever for the feelings and rights of the girls at his school. He makes no mention of them and expresses absolutely no sympathy for them. Julia, on the other hand, even though she is completely and totally in the right and would be justified in screaming profanities into the camera, still exhibits more dignity and class than the other side.
This is not a complicated issue. This is a black-and-white, right versus wrong, good versus bad, issue. We have two competing claims to weigh. On one side, the claims and concerns of a small handful of gender-confused males who would prefer to change with girls because it would make them feel more like girls, even though they are not girls. On the other side, the claims and concerns of the girls in the school, who just want a private place to get changed and use the toilet.
One side is demanding that the whole system be reworked for their sake, and that the privacy of every girl in the school be abolished in the process. The other side is not trying to impose anything on anyone, is not asking for any special accommodation of any kind, is not asking for anything unreasonable, is not even demanding that gender-confused boys get changed with other boys. They could use private stalls. They could work out any other arrangement they want. All this side asks is that their private areas — the areas where they are in the most vulnerable and exposed state — remain private. There is no contest here. The scales are tipped 100% in favor of the girls.
At the very least, if you support forcing scared and humiliated young girls to change in front of boys, please do not pretend to care about women’s rights, especially women’s privacy rights. And please do not ever sermonize about the dangers of “rape culture” or “patriarchy.” You are willing to put a girl’s safety at risk and expose her to the shame and embarrassment of changing in front of boys all for the sake of the LGBT agenda. You are an enemy of women, not a supporter. At least be honest about it.
Alinskyite “science” says that there are a hundred-and-shut-up human sexes.
This is the same kind of “science” that gives us “climate change.”
The perverts are pounding the nails in their own coffin and are clueless.
The pendulum is going to swing so far back in the next ten years you are going to swear that homos don’t even exist anymore.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes would have been a refuge for this girl to go to to at least have somebody to talk with about the subject. FCA are young Christian men and women within schools that let young people know that sanity based on Christian principles still exist in the world.. Chik Fil A just abandoned FCA.
A campaign issue for 2020. This situation shows the difference in thinking between most people and the progressive ruling class. Trump will appoint judges who will follow the original meaning of the constitution and laws, and not invent new meanings according to the media fads of the day.
Equality. They wanted it, they’re getting it. Now for registering for the draft.
No, it isn't, and I think we all know that.
Perhaps a sane and humane method of dealing with this would be to send all trans to one school for only trans and subsidize the cost.
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You do realize that you CAN’T bring a logical solution to a LIB hanging don’t you?
This is probably what they really want.
There are standing laws about discrimination etc and this would definitely allow them to take that tack.
Once that camels nose is under the tent, it is all downhill from there.
Check out your local school board and ‘investigate’ the people that have NO or never had ANY kids in that school district.
That should answer why these definitely anti-family regulations are passing all over the country.
As a ‘working stiff’, I don’t really know how violent my reaction would be if my DAUGHTER’S spot in a College Athletic Scholarship (supposedly) for girls and she comes in third behind two BOYS.
NO!
So you know what everybody else thinks?
I am so honored to meet someone with such high self-esteem for no apparent reason.
Every parent of every girl in that school should keep the girls home until this decision is reversed. The entire school board should also be tarred, feathered and rode out of town on a rail. Really
Never admit to a battery. Better the girls should do as you say, but then tell investigators that the “girl” with nuts was standing on a chair or bench and waving the nads at passing females. The confused child slipped and fell onto the place it was standing, injuring the sensitive area itself.
Being angry as hell is understandable. But there is simply no demonstrable evidence that any Leftist policy that’s gained a foothold in the past 25+ years will be rolled back.
All it should take is a #metoo incident, and one can be easily manufactured by any girl, where she claims that, the confused-male-not-male, stared at her and made her feel very uncomfortable. What would the school system do then?
Alternately, if a male-not-male person undresses in front of any girl and seems aroused, then, a #metoo incident claim can be made. What then?
I’ve been hearing this argument for decades. It isn’t swinging back anytime soon. We have too many “woke” people and it’s getting worse. I’m not saying it won’t ever happen but this path can’t be corrected that quickly as a society.
You can’t foresee the future anymore than I can.
Did you foresee this gender-derangement insanity ten years ago?
No, I didn’t. That’s the whole point. The things coming down the pike will make “boy uses girls’ locker room” look reasonable.
Shim has face hair, what an ugly girl.
“The females demanded we love and support the sex crazies.”
Oh yes, indeedy, we women rose up en masse and demanded that any horrible thing that any perverted man wants to do to us, be allowed!
These bizarre and evil things that a bunch of left wing perverts want to do, female AND MALE, do not represent the wishes, wants, or needs of American women.
I am so sick of those man who think we deserve this. I hope every last one of you women haters who enjoy seeing women hurt like this, who feel we deserve this since we had the temerity to demand equal civil rights, have daughters some day.
So you have admitted you can’t foresee the future, but you know the future?
Check.
Parents, there is two things you can do to stop the insanity, one is to elect a school board that will fight for your girls and boys. Two is to HOMESCHOOL. You can stop this, you can fight to make the school board teach traditional studies not Transgender History...
We have those schools already. They are called insane asylums. Places for the mentally ill.
I agree with the people on this forum who support drastic action. The crisis needs to be raised to the next level.
What Trump did with the NFL.
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