Judge Rejects Parent's Suit to Block TG Student's Restroom Access

[Carolyn Marie]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-transgender-student-locker-room-palatine-20161018-story.html

Yes!

Carolyn Marie

[Ravin]

That is fantastic!

[Guest]

This is great, however I truly wish people would find more constructive hobbies than these frivolous lawsuits.

[MarcieMarie12]

Honestly I think the schools should not announce that they have any transgender students. I think it is between the parents of the child, the school and the child. No one else needs to know, and it will better protect the child's privacy.

[Alejandra]

8 minutes ago, MarcieMarie12 said:

Honestly I think the schools should not announce that they have any transgender students. I think it is between the parents of the child, the school and the child. No one else needs to know, and it will better protect the child's privacy.

I agree. Brilliant!

[Ravin]

It's entirely likely that the school did nothing to violate the child's privacy, word simply got around after a child transitioned.

[Alejandra]

3 minutes ago, Ravin said:

...word simply got around after a child transitioned.

Yes, and why is that?  What efforts were made to protect that child's privacy?

[Ravin]

Other students may have known the student before transition. Peer gossip does not require the school staff or teachers to violate privacy rules.

[Alejandra]

1 hour ago, Ravin said:

Peer gossip does not require the school staff or teachers to violate privacy rules.

I am not just talking about the school. I am referring to the parents especially.  They are the one's primarily responsible for their child's well being. Transitioning a child at school is as traumatic if not more so than transitioning an adult on the job.

Who wants to be forever trans*; forever something 'other than', just plain old male or female? I know that that was my greatest fear and I took steps to make sure that never happened....ever!

[Ravin]

Alejandra, we don't know at all that the parents failed to protect their child's privacy. In all likelihood this student has supportive parents, or else they would not have advocated for them the way they have. 

The problem here is not the trans student's parents, but parents of other students in the school who hired lawyers instead of telling their kids to mind their own business.

[MarcieMarie12]

3 hours ago, Ravin said:

It's entirely likely that the school did nothing to violate the child's privacy, word simply got around after a child transitioned.

Yes, but it seems to me that the school giving a blanket "We can neither confirm nor deny as we cannot divulge that information, as it would violate the student's privacy."

[Charlize]

A good decision.

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize

[Alejandra]

2 hours ago, Ravin said:

In all likelihood this student has supportive parents, or else they would not have advocated for them the way they have.

I agree. The child obviously has parents willing to advocate for their child, no doubt whatsoever "for the good of their child".  That is their decision, their right and their duty as parents. I salute them for their best of intentions. Sadly, IMMHO and most likely uninformed opinion, they are advocating for their child to be recognized as a sex which they clearly are not, thereby condemning them to be forever trans*

That is not what I would have wanted my parents to do, and it not what I would do for my child if I were ever to have been placed in that most difficult of positions. Further, at this point that child has no idea of what the full ramifications of such a special entitlement will be in the long term.  The parents are essentially choosing that child's future without the consent of the child and even more importantly on the advice of "specialists" which have been schooled exclusively by the politically controlled WPATH SOC's.

There has got to be a better way. But then....what do I know? I am just a happy old woman who has lived her life as far away from the trans* culture as possible.