Hot Potato Topic April #3

So the email from the concerned mom basically states, "If you have a penis, pee in the bathroom with the urinals. If you have a vagina use the appropriate bathroom. Urinating according to how you "feel" is not something I should be teaching my impressionable children. Of course when our sons start getting sodomized and our daughters raped we'll see what our fellow transgenders have to say then."
From Concerned Mom

So there you have it ladies and gentlemen. Concerned mom is in support of North Carolina and is asking others to help her with this ever evolving issue. Maybe we don't need public restrooms anymore....maybe the route to go is making sure you go before you leave the house will become the new norm.
Also remember we are to treat everyone fairly. We should never discriminate, even if we don't agree. You might think all penises should be with other penises and the same for the female genitalia but we are living in a world where the fight against labels and people with evil hearts and intentions, so we must all be careful. Arm yourself with knowledge and information. Below I have put the ACLU has to say. Decide for yourselves.

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Open Letter to Schools about Restroom and Locker Room Access for Transgender Students

This open letter to principals and superintendents explains why public schools have a legal obligation to allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity.

Re: Transgender students’ access to sex

-segregated facilities

Dear Principal or Superintendent:

You have been presented with this letter because at least one of your schools may be denying transgender students access to the same restrooms and facilities used by other students that correspond to their gender identity. The school’s decision to exclude transgender boys from the boys’ facilities and transgender girls from the girls’ facilities harms transgender students by

stigmatizing them and impairing their ability to participate fully at school and to enjoy a safe learning environment. I write to in form you that allowing transgender students to access restrooms and other sex-segregated

facilities that correspond to the gender they live every day not only is in the

best interest of the students, but also is required by federal antidiscrimination

law.

Background

A transgender person is someone whose gender identity is different from the

sex they were assigned at birth. For example, a transgender boy is a person

who was assigned the sex female at birth, but his gender identity is male.

Gender identity is a person’s deeply held sense of their own gender.

Medical opinion is unequivocal that gender identity is not a choice.

Many people in school or even before they reach school age have and express a clearly established gender identity that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.

Requiring transgender students to use the restrooms that correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth, instead of the gender they live every day,

or requiring them to use separate single user restrooms, is profoundly harmful.

Excluding transgender students from the same restrooms used by other students that correspond to their gender identity sends a message to transgender students and their peers that transgender students

should be treated differently and that their mere presence in

the same facilities used by their peers is unacceptable. When transgender students are required to use separate facilities, it does not go unnoticed by other students. Being separated from other students in this way would be damaging to anyone, but it is especially harmful for transgender children. Transgender children are at heightened risk of stress and victimization by other children and adults, and those stressors can lead to problems in adulthood including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and suicidality.

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In addition, requiring transgender students to use single user restrooms can cause a host of problems because those facilities may be far from classrooms, causing students to be late for class after using the restroom. Students often try not to use the restroom even though they need to leading to painful urinary tract infections or other problems to avoid being tardy or being forced to use restrooms that do not correspond to their gender identity. Your school or school district’s refusal to allow transgender students to use the appropriate facilities harms their health and well being and disregards widely accepted standards of medical care for transgender people. It also violates federal antidiscrimination law, as explained below.

Legal Analysis

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) prohibits

discrimination based on sex in any education program, such as a public

school, that receives federal financial assistance.

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Federal courts have ruled that Title IX’s prohibition on discrimination “on the basis of sex” protects students from discrimination based on their gender identity, gender nonconformity, or transgender status.

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Likewise, many courts have also recognized that discrimination against transgender people is sex discrimination under other federal laws.

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Additionally, many states explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

Read entire letter at
https://www.aclu.org/letter/open-letter-schools-about-restroom-and-locker-room-access-transgender-students