State rules in favor of young transgender, is this right?
The Maine Human Rights Commission ruled Monday that the Orono School Department discriminated against a transgender child by denying him access to the girls bathroom.
Basics of the story, this 5th grade boy (5th grade in 2007) had been using the girls bathroom because he feels he is a girl. The school stopped in 2007 and told him he had to use the faculty bathroom.
Now he is 13 or 14 and in the 8th grade, should he be able to use the girls bathroom and locker room? When he is 16 or 17, should he be allowed to play on the girls volleyball or basketball team?
He still has all his male equipment.
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tb198919892010-04-13T13:05:14Z
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I think that if you're a male, you use the boy's facilities, and if you're a girl, you use the girl's facilities. Okay, he feels like a girl, but he could surely use a stall in the boy's bathroom, no? And playing on a girls' team? Also unfair. He will have a physical advantage that the other team does not have unless they also have a transgendered boy.
The entire thing starts a massive problem. If he is allowed to use the girls' bathroom, other straight boys might "play into it" just to spy on the girls. If I were transgendered, I would use the the bathroom that correlated to my born parts to make sure that everyone is comfortable.
"Basics of the story, this 5th grade boy (5th grade in 2007) had been using the girls bathroom because he feels he is a girl. The school stopped in 2007 and told him he had to use the faculty bathroom."
NO, this is a GIRL who was born with the physical anatomy of a boy, and there is no reason why a GIRL should be prevented from using the girl's restroom. The problem here is that dim people can't wrap their head around the concept that just because a person appears male, that doesn't mean they are male. She was born with a rather severe birth condition, but in principle it is no different than a person born with a cleft palate or a caudal appendage. When a person is born looking different, and society prevents them from doing things because of their appearance, it's called discrimination, and it's WRONG.
Transsexual people aren't just frivolously claiming to be the opposite gender, they ARE the gender they feel themselves to be, and these claims are backed by both scientific evidence, and the diagnosis of medical professionals who specialize in the care and treatment of transsexual people. It's high time that society got over its stupid prejudices, and started extending the same understanding and compassion to transsexual people that it extends to people born with more obvious types of debilitating conditions. Just because transsexual people *appear* to be unimpaired by their condition doesn't mean they are. Most are suffering just as badly, or worse, than those who have visibly apparent handicaps.
Hmmm, it's a very difficult subject. So i'm not going to lie and say I know the answer BUT i know at my university and a number of others we have unisex bathrooms so it wouldn't be a problem, but at school it's very difficult.
As a transsexual woman who socially transitioned as a young teenager (13) in school I had to use the nurses office instead of the girl's restroom or the girl's gym.
I would have given any thing to have been able to have used the girl's restroom. So you ask "is this right" YES IT IS
My mom in her late 40s hates this, she is called pets names by women younger than her when visiting my aunt in the nursing home about once a week. She calls me bitching up a storm about it,I think it's funny you asked this