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Post by Daniel on Oct 29, 2015 13:57:21 GMT -5
Students' right to privacy? Feds say no
Bob Kellogg (OneNewsNow.com) October 28, 2015
A Chicago-area school district is trying to ensure the privacy of all students when it comes to the use of bathrooms and shower areas, but the Obama administration is intruding on that plan.
The federal Office of Civil Rights is demanding that Township High School District 211 (Palatine, Illinois) open its bathrooms and showers to members of the opposite sex. Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society says such a demand puts an undue burden on students.
“Kids have enough to deal with nowadays,” he says. “They shouldn’t have to deal with worrying about whether they are changing in front of a member of the opposite sex, as some of the young ladies in district 211 have had to worry about over the past year or two.”
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Post by Daniel on Nov 14, 2015 10:32:51 GMT -5
Feds To School Girls: Transgender Rights Supersedes Your Right To Privacy
By Jack Minor November 13, 2015
The Obama administration has told girls in an Illinois school district that if they feel uncomfortable having a boy undress and shower with them that is just too bad, and they have no say in the matter.
Township High School District 211 in Palatine, Illinois, like many schools has been grappling with the issues of transgender students. In an attempt to balance the rights of all students, the district made an accommodation to a boy who said he believed he was a girl. The boy has not yet had sex-reassignment surgery, meaning anatomically he is still a male in every way.
The district allowed the boy to use the girl’s restroom and even participate on girls sports teams. In addition, the school even allowed him to use the girl’s locker room since that is the gender he says he feels like he is.
However, the district drew the line when it came to undressing and showering with the girls, who were understandably uncomfortable about being nude in the presence of a person who is by all appearances and in every physical way, a boy.
The school attempted to honor the wishes of everybody by creating a separate shower facility and changing room for the transgender student. However, the ACLU said that was good enough and it was irrelevant how the girls felt about it, what was important was that the transgender student’s feelings were hurt by not being allowed to shower with the girls.
In response, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights send the district a scathing letter threatening to withdraw Title IX funding if they didn’t allow the boy full access to be with the girls, including undressing and showering with them.
“All students deserve the opportunity to participate equally in school programs and activities. This is a basic civil right,” said Catherine Lhamon, the Education Department’s assistant secretary for civil rights, in a statement reported by the New York Times.
“Unfortunately, Township High School District 211 is not following the law because the district continues to deny a female student the right to use the girls’ locker room.”
However, the district has so far stated it will refuse to give in to the bullying of the federal government, and will instead continue respecting everyone’s privacy rights, not just the one who claims to be transgender.
continue reading www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/November13/134.html
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txlulu
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Post by txlulu on Nov 22, 2015 12:31:32 GMT -5
Accidents happen in showers every day....
Always seems the rights of the one weirdo outweigh the rights of everyone else....
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Post by Cindy on Nov 27, 2015 13:06:03 GMT -5
This is also happening where we live. it's completely disgusting!
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fearnot
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Post by fearnot on Nov 27, 2015 21:58:45 GMT -5
Those poor young girls! good grief there are some married woman that don't want to shower with their beloved husbands and these girls are supposed to shower nude with a boy who 'thinks' he is a girl?! It is disgusting and sick! Maybe he is confused and thinks he is a girl ( he is not of course) but maybe he is a sicko peeping tom potential rapist who has found a great way to foster his evil.
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