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where do you stand on this trans-gender kid?
Dispute on Transgender Rights Unfolds at a Colorado Schoolhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/us/in-colorado-a-legal-dispute-over-transgender-rights.html?hp
“It became really clear that it wasn’t just about liking pink or feminine things,” said Kathryn Mathis, Coy’s mother, recounting how Coy had anxiety attacks when people treated her as a boy. “It was that she was trying so hard to show us that she was a girl.”
In December, however, when Coy, 6, was a few months into the first grade, the Mathises angrily pulled her out of school after being told that she could no longer use the girls’ bathroom but could instead use a gender-neutral restroom.
A letter from a lawyer for the Fountain-Fort Carson school district explained that “as Coy grows older and his male genitals develop along with the rest of his body, at least some parents and students are likely to become uncomfortable with his continued use of the girls’ restroom.”
In December, however, when Coy, 6, was a few months into the first grade, the Mathises angrily pulled her out of school after being told that she could no longer use the girls’ bathroom but could instead use a gender-neutral restroom.
A letter from a lawyer for the Fountain-Fort Carson school district explained that “as Coy grows older and his male genitals develop along with the rest of his body, at least some parents and students are likely to become uncomfortable with his continued use of the girls’ restroom.”
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| Kid should be allowed to use the girl's restroom. | |
7 (70%) |
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| Kid should be allowed to use the girl's restroom only after the surgical removal of the penis and the construction of an artificial Vagina. | |
0 (0%) |
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| Kid is a boy - he should use the boy's restroom. | |
2 (20%) |
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| This issue is too complicated for you to wrap your head around. | |
1 (10%) |
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It would be totally be a non-issue.
But the woman in the above photograph looked like this when she was a girl:
So this restroom problem was an issue for her, too.
She's still the same person that she was as a child, but one difference is that, now, nobody complains when she uses the women's restroom.
Should have been re-enrolled as a 'she.' Name change, all of that, awaiting the surgery to repair the problem for her. Is there some law in Colorado saying the child couldn't have papers to that effect?
TG in my family had the birth certificate, driver's license, etc. changed to reflect gender as it turned out to be, not as stated on the original birth certificate.
Leaving school hurts socialization.
Forcing her to go to the boy's room with urinals would be wrong and damaging. The girl's room has privacy with stalls. Some may not want to admit it, but some boys sit down and take a pee like a girl, too.
No one would have noticed a thing, and the girls wouldn't object, even if there weren't hormones given to stunt the effects of testerone on appearance, since some girls and women have mannish looks.
The child already knows she doesn't want to use a penis like a boy in the rest room and doesn't want to be a boy. So using the girl's room, or better yet, in case of questions, the teacher's restroom would have worked.
In my public school years there were kids with medical conditions that meant they couldn't participate in physical education classes. This is a case that requires adults to protect this child, not politicize her condition.
