A Victory

We need victories now more than ever and we won in Pennsylvania court.

Judge Upholds Bathroom and Locker Room Policy for Transgender Students Amid Lawsuit
The judge denied a request for a preliminary injunction that would have banned transgender students Boyertown Area School District from using bathrooms and locker rooms in line with their expressed gender identity instead of their sex assigned at birth.
NBC 10
By NBC10 Staff
August 26, 2017

As a lawsuit continues to play out in court, transgender students in the Boyertown Area School District are still allowed to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity after a ruling from a federal judge in Easton, Pennsylvania Friday.

Judge Edward G. Smith denied a request for a preliminary injunction that would have banned transgender students in the Boyertown Area School District from using bathrooms and locker rooms in line with their expressed gender identity instead of their sex assigned at birth.
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"The existence of a transgender person living their life appropriately at school cannot constitute sexual harassment," Byard [Eliza Byard, executive director of Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network] said. "It might make another student uncomfortable and in that case, there is a common sense legal remedy of providing separate accommodations to the student who feels uncomfortable."

During the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s you heard the argument that having blacks in the bathroom with whites would terrorize the children. In the 70s and 80s it was the gays who were the target of the bathroomphobes and now it our turn to be targeted by the right-wing bigots.

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Yesterday I was at the Pride festival in New London with five other friends at Ocean Beach Park, a private park on the tip of New London overlooking Fisher Sound. It was first time I attended it because of the high price of parking but since I was with other people it wasn’t like going along and spending an hour wandering around. Yesterday we set up two canopy tents on the beach and hung out in their shade al day, we arrived a little after noon and left a little bit before six.