One Month Later: How California's Transgender Student Law Is Affecting Public Schools

[Guest LizMarie]

http://mediamatters.org/mobile/blog/2014/01/31/one-month-later-how-californias-transgender-stu/197864

Basically, all the whining, gnashing of teeth, predictions of doom, gloom, glaciers and Armageddon... fell flat. And as Los Angeles has noted, already using these same policies for nine years they actually solve problems, not create them.

[VickySGV]

Why am I not surprised at this???

[Guest jnemo]

Why am I not surprised at this???

Ha, I was about to post, "Colour me not at all surprised," when you posted this.

[Carolyn Marie]

Given past behavior, I predict some fake instances of "abuse of the system" on the horizon. Luckily, there seems plenty of good folk on the lookout.

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Brenda Hailey]

I am trying to imagine a normal cis gender male child pretending to be transgender just to go into a girls bathroom.

Do these adults really think there is a kid in the student body brave enough to risk being labeled "transgender" for some sort of bathroom peep show? I dont think so, reputations are to important to lose over something like that, the risk of that label sticking and being taunted just like the real transgender kids is way to high.

I hardly think a "normal" child is willing to bare the transgender label for the sake of some perverse childish kicks,when so many of the real transgender kids wont even admit it to themselves much less a school principle.

As Carolyn states I am sure there will be some cases of shill abuse to try and score political points but the premise of the whole argument falls flat on its face regardless.

Brenda

[Guest jnemo]

Given past behavior, I predict some fake instances of "abuse of the system" on the horizon. Luckily, there seems plenty of good folk on the lookout.

Carolyn Marie

Like the reports manufactured by that PJI group? (link from the article: http://equalitymatters.org/blog/201312290001)

As for the whole peep-show thing, as is pointed out in the article (and as was pointed out to objectors before the bill was even passed), the hurdles to cis kids using this as a way to use the bathroom are going to prevent that. Besides, in this era of cell-phones that can stream video (and probably be remote-controlled, it seems far more likely that peeping toms would be breaking wire-tap laws to see what they want to see.