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wow..I'm speechless on this. The ultimate in PC on equality ?
I would really like to understand how a girl going into the girls room is discrimination.
I'm sure no one forced her and she chose that over the boys room.
This whole thing goes back to 2007. A little boy that dresses and identifies as a girl was followed and harrassed while using the girls room. The Grandfather of the boy that followed the child sued after his Grandson was suspended for harrassment. The Child was then told to use a single faculty bathroom and the Grandfather was upset that the child was "getting special privelages. Maine considers banning biology-based restrooms
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Biology-based restrooms to be banned?
'Transgender ID' in schools under scrutiny by human-rights commissio
State rules in favor of young transgender - Bangor Daily News (http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/109732.html - broken link)
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The discrimination in question first occurred in October 2007 when the child was in the fifth grade at Asa Adams School. Until then, she was allowed to use the girls’ bathroom, although she was biologically male. But that fall, the transgender child was followed into the girls room by a male student who had “previously started to harass her by stalking her and calling her ‘******,’” according to the Maine Human Rights Commission investigator’s report.
After the second such episode, the boy was suspended and removed from the transgender child’s class. At that point, school officials told the transgender child that she had to use a single-stall faculty bathroom at the other end of the school, and that was when her parents decided to take the matter to the Maine Human Rights Commission.
Paul Melanson, grandfather of the boy accused of harassing the transgender student, also filed a complaint with the Maine Human Rights Commission, saying that not allowing his grandson to use the girls bathroom or the faculty bathroom as the other child did was a violation of his grandson’s right to public accommodation under the Maine Human Rights Act. Melanson had given his grandson permission to use the girls bathroom as long as the transgender student was doing so, according to the report.
No, I don't think bathrooms should be coed in schools but, I do think kids with these "issues" (wherever they come from) should be allowed to use a single lavatory.
wow..I'm speechless on this. The ultimate in PC on equality ?
I would really like to understand how a girl going into the girls room is discrimination.
I'm sure no one forced her and she chose that over the boys room.
Is Maine that liberal and progressive ?
Only Portland and thereabouts. The states voters rejected homosexual marriage, after all...this is really a handful of people forcing their will/agenda on the state.
Having done a short stint as a teacher and having been educated well on every topic concerning education/children/etc....I must say, this is one instance where it's absolutely necessary. Allowing males/females of young ages to be in the same bathrooms, is going to lead to many problems, including very serious ones (think of the sexual abuse issues that will emerge, both real and false accusations only made possible by this, then there's emotional issues from girls uncomfortable with boys looking on, etc.). This is absolutely stupid and irresponsible. One issue with one kid does not warrant this.
Only Portland and thereabouts. The states voters rejected homosexual marriage, after all...this is really a handful of people forcing their will/agenda on the state.
This all started over an issue at an Orono Elementary school. A ten year old child that dressed and identified as female (I do wonder about the home situation in this) using the girls room. It wasn't an issue, it was being "handled" by the school and the situation would have been resolved if the child hadn't been harrassed and the "Adult" in the situation hadn't filed a suit.
I don't have first hand knowledge here though I was told by an individual there that the child was actually born "intersexed" and will be having corrective procedures when "she" is old enough. Thus the school was trying to help her fit in before the gender correction. If that is the case, I understand a bit better.
Having done a short stint as a teacher and having been educated well on every topic concerning education/children/etc....I must say, this is one instance where it's absolutely necessary. Allowing males/females of young ages to be in the same bathrooms, is going to lead to many problems, including very serious ones (think of the sexual abuse issues that will emerge, both real and false accusations only made possible by this, then there's emotional issues from girls uncomfortable with boys looking on, etc.). This is absolutely stupid and irresponsible. One issue with one kid does not warrant this.
The girls lavs are all seperate stalls, there was no "looking on".
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