VA Christian school bans 8-year-old girl because her tomboy looks aren’t ‘biblical’

[Judi Lynn]

VA Christian school bans 8-year-old girl because her tomboy looks aren’t ‘biblical’
By David Edwards
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:30 EDT

An 8-year-old girl in Virginia has been told that she can not return to her Christian school because she defied “biblical standards” by looking like a boy.

Doris Thompson told WSET that her granddaughter, Sunnie Kahle, was forced to enroll in public school and has been refused admission for the next school year until she can express the proper gender identity.

“You’re probably aware that Timberlake Christian School is a religious, Bible believing institution providing education in a distinctly Christian environment,” a letter from Timberlake Christian School’s principal said.

According to WSET, the letter said that school rules said that students could be banned for “condoning sexual immorality, practicing a homosexual lifestyle or alternative gender identity.”

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[TDale313]

1. Seriously sick.

I wish the girl well. She'll be better off out of there, but that doesn't make the school's actions any less hurtful or wrongheaded.

[Ilsa]

2. So sad.

I bet she'll eventually be glad she didn't go there and get a bunch of guilt or shame laid on her by looking or being different.

[Dorian Gray]

10. Or...

hopefully... her parents will realize the school sucks and be happy she went where she will next year.

While the school has a right to deny her re-admission... I would immediately withdraw my child from a school that did this to another child.

[msongs]

3. great news for her! the bible does not like women very much anyway nt

[Jgarrick]

4. While I'm sure this upsets the young girl, she'll be better off in the long run escaping from

That sort of environment.

[joeybee12]

5. They're assholes, and when you think about it, this little girl is probably the most "biblical"

of them all...let's go back to "biblical times" no make-up, no hairdressers...let's faces, there wasn't as much back then to differentiate the sexes as there is today.

[Demo_Chris]

6. Hopefully this is a lesson to her and her family. Leave that ignorant nonsense in the past. nt

[shenmue]

7. Sad

How dare they? How ridiculous are they if they can't stand to look at somebody different and still love them, as Christ said to do?

[PumpkinAle]

8. So who wore the pants in Jesus' family

you know someone had to have been good religious "Bible" folk and all that. Because men are to be men and the female are to be female right? // snark.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. If the boys turned up with long hair and in robes, as in standard depictions of Jesus,

would they get extra merit for being extra-biblical? I think not. But the modern style of trousers (full length and loose) - as opposed to breeches - is only about 200 years old.

[RobinA]

11. Really

Jesus is most often depicted with long flowing hair and what is arguably a dress. Not that I'm complaining, he looks hot, but he's not the picture of modern day stereotypical masculinity.

[Tanuki]

12. Because this is apparently their ideal of what is more appropriate for a young Christian girl:

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http://tcs4u.org/cheerleading.html

I missed the chapter in the Bible on cheerleading...I'll have to go look for it later.