Transgender 6-year-old barred from girls' restroom

[jimnyc]

This crap is getting absurd. a 6 year old? And we're supposed to encourage our kids using the same bathrooms as the opposite sex, because another child obviously has issues? Regardless of the reason, a child with boy parts should not be mingling with the girls. I wouldn't want my little girl perhaps seeing another kids wiener, whether that person 'believed' they were a little girl or not.

The parents of a transgender 6-year-old have filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division because the child's elementary school banned her from using the girls' restroom.

The child, Coy Mathis, was born male but identifies as female. She had attended the public school in Fountain, Colo., south of Colorado Springs, since December 2011 before being pulled out by her parents.

"This is significant for both Colorado and nationally," said Michael Silverman, executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, who is representing the family. "For Colorado, it is the first test of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act as related to access to bathrooms by transgender students.

"On a national level, as we see more and more transgender people coming out at younger and younger ages, people will be watching what happens in Colorado."

In November, a Maine state court ruled that a school district did not violate a transgender student's rights under the Maine Human Rights Act when it prohibited her from using the girls' restroom.

Wm. Kelly Dude, the lawyer for Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8, said there are no Colorado cases requiring public schools to permit transgender students to use restrooms of the gender with which they identify.

Transgender identity is a relatively new issue in the nation, so there is little uniformity among school district policies. Some in Colorado, including Boulder Valley Schools, have crafted detailed policies citing the state Anti-Discrimination Act. Others have not.

Boulder's guidelines specifically address restroom accessibility, stating that "students shall have access to the restroom that corresponds to their gender identity consistently asserted at school."

Coy Mathis wears girls' clothing, and students and staff used female pronouns when referring to her. But Fountain-Fort Carson administrators decided over winter break that the child should use the boys' restroom, the staff's restroom or the one in the school nurse's office.

That decision took into account "not only Coy, but other students in the building, their parents and the future impact a boy, with male genitals, using a girls' bathroom would have as Coy grew older," Dude wrote in a Dec. 28 letter to Silverman.

http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-wo...girls-restroom

[fj1200]

This crap is getting absurd.

Lack of parenting usually is.

[jimnyc]

Lack of parenting usually is.

But worse, how many people are now going to 'go to bat' for this kid, for his/her "rights"? The "movement" will get larger and everyone will be some sort of bigot for denying them these "rights".

[Syrenn]

I do not agree with it either.... i am rather sick of the PC crap.


simple solution to the problem is to stop calling them girl or ladies bathrooms... or boys or mens bathrooms.


Vaginas and Penises.... that should take care of the issue.


none of the crap of what sex you are, think you are or want to be involved..... Dangly bits to the right.... no dangly bits to the lett.

[tailfins]

A six year old mind isn't capable of coming up with this stuff. I call psychological abuse, likely from the parents.

[fj1200]

The child, Coy Mathis, was born male but identifies as female. She had attended the public school in Fountain, Colo., south of Colorado Springs, since December 2011 before being pulled out by her parents.

http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-wo...girls-restroom

That's why God invented private schools. Not every accommodation should be made for this sort of thing.

[darin]

Fucking clearly a case of child abuse. Those parents need a savage beating of their mindsets. Tragedy right there.

[glockmail]

I tried that trick in elementary school too, and it didn't work for me either. Sadly, it was many years later that I was finally able to see what was underneath those short little skirts...

[Robert A Whit]

It it looks like a duck, don't put it in with chickens.

If the child looks like a male, the females will resent the male being with them.

I blame parents for messing up their kid so a male thinks he is a she.

[Noir]

Gender designated restrooms for elementary schoolers?

[fj1200]

Gender designated restrooms for elementary schoolers?

In my six-year olds class they have one bathroom but those in the halls are designated.

[Thunderknuckles]

From the article:
"On a national level, as we see more and more transgender people coming out at younger and younger ages, people will be watching what happens in Colorado."

I am willing to bet both left and right testicles that the reason for this has nothing to do with them actually being transgender and everything to do with our society saying this is now an acceptable behavior as in "Hey kids, if you were born with a penis but think it would be cool to live life as a girl, go for it! Be whatever you want to be!"
There is no way a 6 year old comprehends the issues behind true transgenderism , if such a thing even exists which I highly doubt.

I know God did not design human beings like this and there is now way Evolution would end up with a good sampling of such an epic genetic mishap.

[Abbey Marie]

I do not agree with it either.... i am rather sick of the PC crap.


simple solution to the problem is to stop calling them girl or ladies bathrooms... or boys or mens bathrooms.


Vaginas and Penises.... that should take care of the issue.


none of the crap of what sex you are, think you are or want to be involved..... Dangly bits to the right.... no dangly bits to the lett.

Lol, I like it!

And in keeping with our "don't bother learning English" attitude, just a representative drawing on each door only. But then the questions begin: In what "condition" do they draw the penis? Circumsized or not? Pubic hair or not? And what a party we can draw on the Family bathroom at the mall! Oh, the questions go on and on.

[logroller]

Seems if people just closed the door to the stall, dangly bits would remain a private matter.

[Syrenn]

Lol, I like it!

And in keeping with our "don't bother learning English" attitude, just a representative drawing on each door only. But then the questions begin: In what "condition" do they draw the penis? Circumsized or not? Pubic hair or not? And what a party we can draw on the Family bathroom at the mall! Oh, the questions go on and on.

well??


it works doesn't it?