jimnyc
10-05-2014, 07:29 AM
This article mainly pertains to these confused people and sports in the schools. They need to somehow accommodate 10-11 of them per year. And I ask - WHY? Suppose there were 10-11 reported kids per year who reported to school officials that they have a similar mental issue, but they see males as females and females as males. Do we let them switch bathrooms too, even if it's the smallest minority in existence? What if 10 kids per year report a mental issue where they are literally deathly afraid of the opposite sex? Do they switch bathrooms, given classes with only the same sex? At what point do you separate a responsibility from a school, to a responsibility of the parents/child? Why must EVERY mental issue be accommodated? So now every school that has a transgender student - the opposite sexes need to be placed in a position where they may potentially be uncomfortable in the locker room with the opposite sex? And YES, regardless of what these mental people feel - they ARE the opposite sex - end of story on that one.
Kids with other mental diseases do not get such special treatment. They may get small accommodations, but nothing like this. Many, many, many kids are sent off to private schools or homeschooling, as the schools simply cannot accommodate them. But when it comes to the stupid "lgbt" crap, they must accommodate, or fear the wrath of the liberals and ninnies screaming for equality. Bullshit. Letting a person screwed up in the head to chill in the locker room of the opposite sex is NOT equality. One person accommodated while an entire locker room is displaced? Not equality. Send them to private schools. Send them somewhere where others aren't made uncomfortable. Make a different locker room, let them change in a classroom that is cordoned off. There are TONS of alternatives. But what they want, is to place them in the same locker room, which only serves to tell people they are the "same" and "normal" - THEY ARE NOT.
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It had been a relatively quiet policy debate until the full-page ad appeared in the local newspaper. “A male wants to shower beside your 14-year-old daughter,” it said. “Are you OK with that?”
The ad, placed by a socially conservative group in Minnesota, was meant to snap attention to a proposal to allow transgender students to play on teams based on their preferred gender rather than the sex assigned to them at birth.
It appears to have worked. More than 100 community members flooded a meeting this week near Minneapolis, and thousands more sent e-mails. In response, the quasi-public body governing high school sports in Minnesota decided to delay a vote on a new policy covering sports participation by transgender students. Members of the board of directors said they needed more time to study the issue.
The policy, which they now plan to vote on in December, was an attempt to grapple with a question that has bedeviled many states: How do you deal with the growing number of children identifying as transgender who want to participate in the highly gender-specific worlds of high school sports and extracurricular activities?
School systems have scrambled to adopt policies to deal with these students while also being sensitive to concerns over locker-room privacy and any advantages a more physically imposing transgender female might have on the field against other girls.
“Generally, our society is becoming more accepting in its understanding of gender identity and what that means, and we’ve been very lucky that in the last few years this cadre of young kids has started identifying themselves as trans from a young age,” said Helen Carroll, sports project director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, who helped write a model policy for school systems. “It’s really pushing folks to really grapple with and understand what it means.”
But activists like Carroll have run into opposition, including from groups that say gender is a biological fact rather than a social choice and that schools should not cater to a small subset of the student body.
The number of students asking for such accommodations nationally is indeed very low, Carroll said, estimating that, nationally, fewer than 10 students a year make such requests. Advocates and students say that is because transgender students are typically afraid of bullying or very self-conscious about their bodies and therefore choose not to participate in sports.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-question-for-schools-which-sports-teams-should-transgender-students-play-on/2014/10/02/d3f33b06-49c7-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html
Kids with other mental diseases do not get such special treatment. They may get small accommodations, but nothing like this. Many, many, many kids are sent off to private schools or homeschooling, as the schools simply cannot accommodate them. But when it comes to the stupid "lgbt" crap, they must accommodate, or fear the wrath of the liberals and ninnies screaming for equality. Bullshit. Letting a person screwed up in the head to chill in the locker room of the opposite sex is NOT equality. One person accommodated while an entire locker room is displaced? Not equality. Send them to private schools. Send them somewhere where others aren't made uncomfortable. Make a different locker room, let them change in a classroom that is cordoned off. There are TONS of alternatives. But what they want, is to place them in the same locker room, which only serves to tell people they are the "same" and "normal" - THEY ARE NOT.
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It had been a relatively quiet policy debate until the full-page ad appeared in the local newspaper. “A male wants to shower beside your 14-year-old daughter,” it said. “Are you OK with that?”
The ad, placed by a socially conservative group in Minnesota, was meant to snap attention to a proposal to allow transgender students to play on teams based on their preferred gender rather than the sex assigned to them at birth.
It appears to have worked. More than 100 community members flooded a meeting this week near Minneapolis, and thousands more sent e-mails. In response, the quasi-public body governing high school sports in Minnesota decided to delay a vote on a new policy covering sports participation by transgender students. Members of the board of directors said they needed more time to study the issue.
The policy, which they now plan to vote on in December, was an attempt to grapple with a question that has bedeviled many states: How do you deal with the growing number of children identifying as transgender who want to participate in the highly gender-specific worlds of high school sports and extracurricular activities?
School systems have scrambled to adopt policies to deal with these students while also being sensitive to concerns over locker-room privacy and any advantages a more physically imposing transgender female might have on the field against other girls.
“Generally, our society is becoming more accepting in its understanding of gender identity and what that means, and we’ve been very lucky that in the last few years this cadre of young kids has started identifying themselves as trans from a young age,” said Helen Carroll, sports project director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, who helped write a model policy for school systems. “It’s really pushing folks to really grapple with and understand what it means.”
But activists like Carroll have run into opposition, including from groups that say gender is a biological fact rather than a social choice and that schools should not cater to a small subset of the student body.
The number of students asking for such accommodations nationally is indeed very low, Carroll said, estimating that, nationally, fewer than 10 students a year make such requests. Advocates and students say that is because transgender students are typically afraid of bullying or very self-conscious about their bodies and therefore choose not to participate in sports.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-question-for-schools-which-sports-teams-should-transgender-students-play-on/2014/10/02/d3f33b06-49c7-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html