Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Oh When Will They Ever Learn?

They are always trying to push the clock back.

You might remember the recent court decision in the Grimm’s case…
Gavin Grimm wins bathroom court case against transphobic school board, but…
Even though he won, the issue isn't entirely settled, and here's why...
LGBTQ  Nation
By Daniel Villarreal Saturday,
August 10, 2019

Yesterday, a federal court ruled that the Gloucester County School Board of Virginia wrongly discriminated against transgender former student Gavin Grimm in 2015 when the board’s policies forbade him from using school bathrooms matching his gender identity during his high school years.

The court ruled that the school board’s policies violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which guarantees equal protection and due process under the law, and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 which “prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.”

The court also ruled that the school was wrong not to list Grimm’s official gender as male on school records and ordered the school board to pay for all of Grimm’s attorney’s fees.
Okay in light of the ruling what do you think a West Virginia teacher did?
Trans boy sues school after teacher demands he ‘prove’ he should be in male bathroom
Pink News UK
By Nick Duffy
September 1, 2019

A transgender teen in West Virginia is taking legal action after a teacher demanded he use a urinal to “prove” he belongs in the men’s bathroom.

15-year-old Michael Critchfield was allegedly followed into the bathroom at Liberty High School in Clarksburg, West Virginia, by assistant principal Lee Livengood

A lawsuit filed in US circuit court on August 27 claims that after pursing the teen into the bathroom, Livengood “began berating him while he was in the stall”.

When Critchfield explained that he is a boy, the teacher is alleged to have challenged him to “come out here and use the urinal” to prove his gender.

The teen was held in the bathroom for four minutes during the altercation, the lawsuit claims. When the teen left the bathroom, the teacher is said to have followed him and said: “I’m not going to lie, you freak me out.”
[…]
“For four long minutes, Michael was held against his will by a man twice his size and who was in a position of authority, who was screaming at him and demanding he expose himself.
I don’t know about you but when the teacher told him to pee in front of the teacher, that’s creepy.

Hopefully the Supreme Court case this October will settle this once and for all and hopefully it will be settle in our favor. It will all boil down to Chief Justice Roberts and how he votes.

Isn’t it amazing that our human right to exist all comes down to the vote of one man in a black robe.

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