This morning while I was surfing the web for news articles to comment upon I came across a couple of articles on about Atherton High School in Oklahoma new policy to integrate trans-students in their gender identity.
The student identifies as a girl and has a girlfriend and the opposition is milking the bathroom to the hilt. The school principal said that the high school will not discriminate against gender identity or expression, the school will follow the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights extended federal civil-rights protections for trans-student under Title IX.
On Thursday the school based council held a hearing on the issue and the article in the Courier-Journal said that it is mainly the parents, who have a problem,
Um… Mister attorney, did you ever hear of lesbians? What are you going to do about them?
WHAS has a program on their station called Moral Side of the News; they have a panel of religious leaders discussing the morality of allowing the trans-student to use the girls’ bathroom. On the panel were four men and one woman who was a rabbi while the other men were all Christians, one person got it and the others didn’t. Do you want to guess who got it? The men were all arguing that it is what’s between your legs that count and she was arguing that it is about your identity.
The student identifies as a girl and has a girlfriend and the opposition is milking the bathroom to the hilt. The school principal said that the high school will not discriminate against gender identity or expression, the school will follow the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights extended federal civil-rights protections for trans-student under Title IX.
On Thursday the school based council held a hearing on the issue and the article in the Courier-Journal said that it is mainly the parents, who have a problem,
Most of the students who spoke supported the controversial procedure, drawing loud applause in a largely cordial meeting that Aberli said was the only school council meeting that had attracted any public speakers in nearly five years -not to mention a bank of TV news cameras.Those opposed to the policy were mainly organization affiliated with conservative religious organizations. One of the speakers was Clint Elliott, an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is a Christian-based legal group, besides the usual “boy in the girl’s bathroom” argument, he also complained (to paraphrase him), that this boy is attracted to girls and is going to be going in the girls’ bathroom.
Um… Mister attorney, did you ever hear of lesbians? What are you going to do about them?
WHAS has a program on their station called Moral Side of the News; they have a panel of religious leaders discussing the morality of allowing the trans-student to use the girls’ bathroom. On the panel were four men and one woman who was a rabbi while the other men were all Christians, one person got it and the others didn’t. Do you want to guess who got it? The men were all arguing that it is what’s between your legs that count and she was arguing that it is about your identity.
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