World Events and the Bible WEB Notes: California has already passed their own transgender law as well. We have become a nation of perversion, we are asSodom and Gomorrah.
(Yahoo) – School officials violated state anti-discrimination law when they would not allow a transgender fifth-grader to use the girls’ bathroom, according to a ruling by the highest court in Maine that’s believed to be the first of its kind.
The family of student Nicole Maines and the Maine Human Rights Commission sued in 2009 after school officials required her to use a staff, not student, restroom.
“This is a momentous decision that marks a huge breakthrough for transgender young people,” said Jennifer Levi, director of the Boston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders’ Transgender Rights Project after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling on Thursday.
The court concluded that the Orono school district’s actions violated the Maine Human Rights Act, which bans discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, overturning a lower court’s ruling that the district acted within its discretion.
The ruling is the first time a state high court concluded that a transgender person should use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify, according to GLAD. Federal courts haven’t taken up the issue.
Students at the southern Maine high school Nicole now attends stood up and cheered when news of the ruling was announced, said her father, Wayne Maines.
School administrators across the country are grappling with the issue.
Colorado officials said last year that a suburban Colorado Springs school district discriminated against a 6-year-old transgender girl by preventing her from using the girls’ bathroom.
In California, there’s an effort afoot to try to repeal a law that allows public school students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their expressed genders.
In the Maine case, Nicole Maines was using the girls’ bathroom in her elementary school until the grandfather of a fifth-grade boy complained to administrators. The Orono school district determined that she should use a staff bathroom, but her parents said that amounted to discrimination.
Nicole is a biological male who identified as a girl beginning at age 2.
Nicole, who’s now 16, said after arguments before the high court last summer that she hoped the justices understood the importance of going to school, getting an education and making friends without having to be “bullied” by other students — or school administrators.
Nicole’s father said all he had ever wanted was for his daughter to be treated just like her classmates. He said he was overcome with emotion when he learned of the decision.
“It sends a message to my kids that you can believe in the system and that it can work,” Wayne Maines said. “I’m just going to hug my kids and enjoy the moment, and do some healing.”
Melissa Hewey, lawyer for the school district, said the ruling provided clarity not just to Orono, but to schools around the state.
“The court has now clarified what has been a difficult issue and is more and more common in schools, and the Orono School Department is going to do what it needs to do to comply with the law,” she said.
In the 5-1 ruling, the court had to reconcile two separate state laws, one requiring separate bathrooms based on gender and the other prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
In this case, in which the child had a formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria, “it has been clearly established that a student’s psychological well-being and educational success depend upon being permitted to use the communal bathroom consistent with her gender identity,” Justice Warren Silver wrote.
The Supreme Judicial Court pointed out that its ruling was based on the circumstances of the case in which there was ample documentation of the student’s gender identity. “Our opinion must not be read to require schools to permit students casual access to any bathroom of their choice,” he wrote. – Yahoo: Maine court rules in favor of transgender pupil
http://brandontward.blogspot.com/2014/02/maine-court-rules-in-favor-of.html
“Nicole is a biological male who identified as a girl beginning at age 2”
“….discriminated against a 6-year-old transgender girl”
This is just plain sick. How does someone “identify as a girl” at two years old? Are two year-olds even conscious of their gender?
You might have a son who’s a bit of a sissy, but there’s no need to encourage it by dressing him up as a girl, and you would think that it’s only sensible to wait until puberty before he makes those decisions, rather than have parents make those decisions for them. When 2 & 6 year-olds get caught up in “gender identity issues”, I have to think they had some sick parents adding to the confusion.
As for the bathroom issue, gender identity should be assigned based on anatomy, and nothing else, because that’s the reason we have separate bathrooms in the first place.
As long as we’re fighting to have people with penises enter the girl’s bathroom, why can’t I go in there too? Are you now discriminating against me because I’m NOT transgender? What about the girls who don’t want to undress in front of someone with a penis? Do they have no right to gender-based privacy?
““Nicole is a biological male who identified as a girl beginning at age 2″
“….discriminated against a 6-year-old transgender girl”
This is just plain sick. How does someone “identify as a girl” at two years old? Are two year-olds even conscious of their gender?”
Man, you said it, JR. You hit the nail on the head on that one.
I agree with Jolly Roger, this is just plain sick. You are male or female. These people push themselves to be both.
male and female are what animal sexes are referred to but most ppl call them self’s animals anyway humans masculine and feminine are the correct references to man now you know why all corporation forms ask for male of female and in there own documents you are refereed to as animals hu man
only ones to blame for messed up brains like this are the parents and public fools systems putting this bs in there heads
My Fellow Americans:
Well,.. no denying this manifestation of complete moral and ethical decay in this country.
BUT,.. but,.. if someone wanted to actually try to execute a solution,.. it might looks something like this:
Sane Adult: So,.. which bathroom do you want to use Nicole”
Nicole: The girls bathroom,…
Sane Adult: (Smacks Nicole in the head),…. so,.. what bathroom do you want to use?
Nicole: The girls bathroom,…
Sane Adult: (Smacks Nicole in the head again,.. HARDER!),.. so,… what bathroom do you want to use?
Nicole: Ahhh,.. the girls bathroom??
Sane Adult: (Smacks Nicole in the head AGAIN,.. and even Harder,… and gives HIM,.. a hop in the ass with his shoe!),.. so,… what bathroom do you want to use,.. boy?
Nicole: Uuhhhmmm,.. the,.. boy’s bathroom???
Sane Adult: (Smacks Nicole in the head and gives Nicole two hops in the ass!),.. so,… what bathroom do you want to use,.. boy?
Nicole,… The boy’s bathroom.
Sane Adult: Very good.,.. There we go,.. 16 years of liberal idiocy,.. and “Boston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders’ Transgender Rights” perversion undone in 45 seconds.
Now,.. go use the boy’s bathroom since your a boy.
END OF STORY.
JD – US Marines – You want to find out who is really behind the “Queeritization” of this country,.. just look into WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM, to run perversion organizations like, “Boston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders’ Transgender Rights”.
“Nicole’s father said all he had ever wanted was for his daughter to be treated just like her classmates. He said he was overcome with emotion when he learned of the decision.”
These are the kind of MORONS who need to be scrubbed from the gene pool.
No apologies for that, either.
None of the comments appear to have noticed the most horrifying part of the story. Its fellow students stood up and cheered when the ruling came down.
The next generation is ruined already. It is too late to try and put them back together. If things don’t get changed very soon then it will be too damned late.
True, sadly enough. The indoctrination will have to be beaten out of them, no doubt.
Literally.
I guess we’ll have to resort to JD’s method then. lol
Yep, if you can’t accept your natural born gender it is not nature that got it wrong, it’s you.