Dept of Education declares that school must allow boy to shower with girls

[Phillip V]

'Federal education authorities found on Monday that an Illinois school district had violated anti-discrimination laws when it did not allow a transgender student [biological high school boy] who identifies as a girl and participates in athletics to change and shower in the girls' locker room without restrictions.'


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/us/illinois-district-violated-transgender-students-rights-us-says.html

[Admiral Yi]

Me too!

[Tonitrus]

I could foresee a lot of high school boys start claiming to identify as girls.

[Ed Anger]

Call me Christine.

[Eddie Teach]

ZOMG, Phil, you're such a transphobe. 

[Valmy]

I could foresee a lot of high school boys start claiming to identify as girls.

Yeah this will end well.

[Barrister]

I could foresee a lot of high school boys start claiming to identify as girls.

You know... I am not the most trans-friendly person around here,  But I don't foresee that in the least.

[Martinus]

I could foresee a lot of high school boys start claiming to identify as girls.

You know... I am not the most trans-friendly person around here,  But I don't foresee that in the least.

Yeah, it's one of the most moronic bigoted arguments I have ever heard and I have heard a lot. It's right there on par with Jeremy Irons' "if gays are allowed to marry, what is to prevent fathers marrying sons to avoid inheritance tax".

[Martinus]

The thread title is a piece of garbage, by the way.

[jimmy olsen]

I could foresee a lot of high school boys start claiming to identify as girls.

You know... I am not the most trans-friendly person around here,  But I don't foresee that in the least.

Got to agree with the Beeb

[Martinus]

I could foresee a lot of high school boys start claiming to identify as girls.

You know... I am not the most trans-friendly person around here,  But I don't foresee that in the least.

Got to agree with the Beeb

Though it's interesting to see whose mind immediately goes to deception as an acceptable means of getting sexual gratification - and whose doesn't.

[Admiral Yi]

I don't see anything remotely bigoted about the belief that guy guys will try to take advantage of this.

Nor is it moronic to think so.  After all, the only objective way to prevent it would be to create a test of female identification.  I presume the plaintiff in this case was not given one.

Of course a rather impartial test would be if the dude gets a woodie in the shower, but at that it's already mission accomplished.

[Archy]

I could foresee a lot of high school boys start claiming to identify as girls.

You know... I am not the most trans-friendly person around here,  But I don't foresee that in the least.

Yeah, it's one of the most moronic bigoted arguments I have ever heard and I have heard a lot. It's right there on par with Jeremy Irons' "if gays are allowed to marry, what is to prevent fathers marrying sons to avoid inheritance tax".

That one's easy its still incest. 

[Martinus]

I don't see anything remotely bigoted about the belief that guy guys will try to take advantage of this.

Nor is it moronic to think so.  After all, the only objective way to prevent it would be to create a test of female identification.  I presume the plaintiff in this case was not given one.

Of course a rather impartial test would be if the dude gets a woodie in the shower, but at that it's already mission accomplished.

I don't even know where to begin. Each of three lines of your post contain misconceptions and errors.

[Tonitrus]

I could foresee a lot of high school boys start claiming to identify as girls.

You know... I am not the most trans-friendly person around here,  But I don't foresee that in the least.

Got to agree with the Beeb

Though it's interesting to see whose mind immediately goes to deception as an acceptable means of getting sexual gratification - and whose doesn't.

Humor is lost on this place.   

You're all becoming a bunch of stodgy old curmudgeons and thin-skinned internet warlords who take everything way too seriously.