The families, represented by right-wing attorneys, claim the federal government’s policies on trans students amount to “discrimination” against cisgender students.
One transgender student. A whole lot of cisgender students. Result: lawsuit against trans*persons inclusivity, non-discrimination and protection policies.
The Obama administration is bullying Illinois families by requiring cisgender (nontrans) students to share a locker room with a transgender classmate, according to a federal lawsuit filed by 51 families in Palatine, Ill.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Chicago, claims the federal government is discriminating against students by allowing a transgender girl at William Fremd High School to use the locker room that corresponds with her gender identity.
The families are being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom and Thomas More Society, both notorious right-wing, anti-LGBT legal nonprofits, which claim that the U.S. Department of Education’s inclusive stance on trans bathroom access is a “blatant violation of student privacy.”
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Wilson represents the 73 parents and 63 students who are named plaintiffs in recent lawsuit. The court filing alleges that since that ruling was handed down, using the locker room with a trans student has made life difficult for the plaintiffs’ families. “Every day these girls go to school, they experience embarrassment, humiliation, anxiety, fear, apprehension, stress, degradation and loss of dignity because they will have to use the locker room and restroom with a biological male,” the complaint reads.
The suit further claims that female students who weren’t comfortable undressing in the presence of a trans person were “ridiculed and harassed by other students to such an extent that the stalls are not a practical option.” The students filing the claim further stated that their peers labeled them “transphobic” and “homophobic” due to their discomfort.
ThinkProgress‘s Zack Ford notes the irony that the aggrieved families refuse to accept the same accommodation the school initially offered the trans student — that she use a private restroom and changing facility, away from all other students.
Zack Ford has an in-depth story at Think Progress. The Advocate also has this story.
Of course gender identity is self-perception. ALL IDENTITIES ARE SELF-PERCEPTION.
*flips table*
Literally: Your existence is harassing me.
I had to laugh when I read that a good part of their distress was being caused by other students calling them transphobic and homophobic. Umm…
And laughed again at:
These fucking people, nothing is ever good enough. Nope, all you, you, none-normative people just go away! We’ll stomp our feet until you do! They’re having the equivalent of a melt down temper tantrum. And it’s not at all funny, but some days, if I don’t laugh, it’s unbearable.
I am cis -- hetero and I experienced embarrassment, humiliation, anxiety, fear, apprehension, stress, degradation and loss of dignity while going to school.
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I exited high school over forty years ago without having met a single trans person.
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Maybe the girls’ embarrassment, humiliation, anxiety, fear, apprehension, stress, degradation and loss of dignity has another source.
Are those people in the photo all in the same church choir?
Look at their hand positions.
Hnh. ‘Cuz treating minorities decently is just so freakin’ awful, such a burden, you see, treating a little girl like she’s a little girl and letting her be her little girl self like all the other little girls, so much more effort than waging a campaign of bullying and ostracization against this child, yup…
/sarcasm
By these people’s logic, it was “bullying” to integrate black students into white schools, or to mainstream disabled children. (Granted, the latter did require a bit of work on the part of the schools, as buildings and restrooms had to be made accessible.)
I do wonder, though -- in how many of those families is it actually the children who are bothered by their classmate using the locker room with them? And in how many families is it the parents who are actively working to instigate the feeling of threat in their children?
Ok so the complaints are
-the kids are distressed by having the trans girl in the locker room
-the kids get (rightfully) called trans- and homophobes by other cis people
So the trans girl’s crime is peacefully existing.
No accusations of waving around dicks, forcing anybody to look etc. No, she’s not doing anything besides being. That’s the conservative definition of bullying. Given that they themselves are the bullies and never see their own behaviour as wrong it makes some kind of twisted sense.
BTW, #1’s cis girl friends object to seeing other cis girls’ prepubescent nipples (kind of unavoidable when having swimming classes) in a fit of pre-pubescent prudery. I guess they’re now being bullied by each other for existing
@rq — Guarantee it’s 100% the latter. Kids generally don’t care unless they’ve been conditioned to freak out over the sight of intimate parts.
Palpitating and ill christian fanatics in Palatine, Ill.
Theirs is the mindset that said it was a bad idea to integrate schools back in the 1960s. They would go back to “separate and unequal” if they could. It’s what they’re advocating now.
BCE, when (perhaps rather tellingly), slavery was common throughout the world.