Transgender Child Wins Restroom Case

[Guest -guest-]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2347149/Coy-Mathis-Transgender-child-6-Colorado-wins-civil-rights-case-use-girls-bathroom-school.html

[Charlize]

She is such a cute kid. hope this begins an easier more 'normal' life for her.

Hugs,

Charlie

[Guest Jenn348]

All this bathroom crap, makes me think of the misconception out there that all LGBT people are potential rapists and child molesters. Therefore, the common thinking goes, such people should be kept away from women and children. How sickening that they'd extend such thinking to include children who are LGBT, as if she was some sort of threat to the girls at the school.

[KathrynJulia]

This little girl was featured with her parents on Katie courier. It was heart breaking to see how she was being treated by the school. I'm glad the family prevailed. This was a good win for kids everywhere.kathryn

[Carolyn Marie]

I'd like to think this will be the "happy ending" that we would all like to see. But I have a feeling it won't end here. Lets hope I'm wrong. Thanks for posting this, Kay.

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

[Guest LizMarie]

I don't understand how some people can be so cruel or so blase about bathroom issues. This is part of who we are. Face it, while some trans folk are genderqueer, most of us want to fit in, to be accepted within the context of the society in which we live. And which bathroom we go to is part of that. Some people are blatantly cruel about this, invoking "bogeyman" images about trans folk to publicly embarrass us. And others, within the trans community, who don't understand the basic psychological harm done to a child by forcing that child into the "other" social space simply boggle my mind.

I too hope this is the end of it, but it usually never is. Hatred, bigotry, and fear don't give up easily.

[VickySGV]

http://news.yahoo.com/rights-case-ruling-favors-colo-transgender-girl-142155581.html;_ylt=Aljq2EAdFLmHpFE0QXDK.YIJVux_;_ylu=X3oDMTJhaTFtMWdnBG1pdANBVFQgMyBTdG9yeSBKdW1ib3Ryb24gSG9tZSBDYWNoZWQEcG9zAzMwBHNlYwNNZWRpYUF0dFdpZGdldHJvbkFzc2VtYmx5;_ylg=X3oDMTFkcW51ZGliBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3BtaA--;_ylv=3

This is the same general news report, but in a way, this one describes it as a bit of a moot, pyrrhic victory since Coy and her parents are no longer in that school district. This ruling can still be appealed by the school district in one or two directions, and what bothers me is that someone will insist that the district do that. Thus district funds will be used on a legal hassle instead of new science text books that describe TG people as normal human beings, and social science text books that describe us as non-threatening and positively contributing members of society.

John Lenon's Imagine is going through my head just now.

[Guest LizMarie]

Vicky, this is what "pro-family" organizations publicly fight for. One of them (in Colorado no less) even recently claimed that transgender kids don't exist, and in the process demonstrated that they completely confused the concepts of gender identity and sexual orientation. This is the face of bigotry, very plain and simple.

[Guest -guest-]

Some people are blatantly cruel about this, invoking "bogeyman" images about trans folk to publicly embarrass us.

Sometimes I go to the comments section under articles like that and get people to tie themselves into knots trying to explain why the nonsense they're spouting makes sense. I learned from one that there's a veritable army of sex perverts anticipating a law like this so they can go into women's restrooms and assault the patrons.

The two questions that occurred to me are (1) why they would need a law to break the law and (2) whether people of that ilk really have the patience to follow the news and await a court decision before setting out to commit an assault.

Of course, the answer to those questions - like most others I ask to provoke the idiots - is that I'm a "lib".

[Carolyn Marie]

The story got play on the Nightly News tonight, too. Good to get main stream ("lame stream?") exposure.

No apologies to Mrs. Palin.

Carolyn Marie

[VickySGV]

Vicky, ..... This is the face of bigotry, very plain and simple.

Hence my reference to Lenon's immortal song Imagine,