The Hater Keep Trying To Pick Away At Our Human Rights

It is easy to see why the Trump administration pulled out of the UN Human Rights Council. In 1995 the U.S. was a signator to the Convention on the Rights of the Child which Article 9 states…

States Parties shall ensure that a child shall not be separated from his or her parents against their will, except when competent authorities subject to judicial review determine, in accordance with applicable law and procedures, that such separation is necessary for the best interests of the child.

But that is not what I want to write about today, I want to write about an attempt to strip the human rights from trans students.

Hate group tried to argue in court that trans students threaten privacy. It didn’t go well.
"The appellants’ real objection is to the presence of transgender students, not to any 'environment' their presence creates."
ThinkProgress
By Zack Ford
June 19, 2018

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit this week completely rejected hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)’s attempts to discriminate against transgender students. This is a very significant defeat for ADF, which has been losing cases challenging transgender students’ rights all across the country.

The decision comes on the heels of a pretty unusual proceeding. After hearing oral arguments in the case, in which ADF challenged a Pennsylvania school’s transgender-inclusive policy, the circuit panel deliberated for less than an hour before issuing a ruling from the bench. This week, the Court issued its written opinion agreeing with a lower court’s decision not to enjoin the policy.
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As part of the policy, Boyertown Area Senior High School (BASH) added single-use stalls to all of the facilities in the school — which should have resolved any privacy concerns the ADF clients had regarding sharing facilities with their transgender classmates. “Yet they insist that the policy should be changed,” the decision explains, “to require that transgender students use individual bathrooms if they do not wish to use the communal facilities that align with their birth-determined sex.”

And get a load of what the judges had to say,

“Adopting the appellants’ position would very publicly brand all transgender students with a scarlet ‘T,’ and they should not have to endure that as the price of attending their public school,” the Court writes.
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ADF has said it may appeal the Boyertown case.

I hope that when we school district wins that they will sue the parents for reimbursement of their court cost.

The current administration thinks they can do whatever they want and they keep getting rebuffed by the courts. Whether it is trans servicemembers, trans healthcare, trans employment or trans education the courts so far have blocked all their attempts to strip us of our human rights.