Of course, that makes the girls the h8rs.
In the middle of last school year, Lila Perry came out as transgender. Before that, she had been living as a gay male.
But that’s not who she really was. No longer was she going to pretend, Lila said.
So this year, she told teachers and administrators at Hillsboro High School, where she is a senior, that she would no longer be content to use a unisex faculty bathroom. She wanted to be treated like other female students, including access to bathrooms and locker rooms for girls. […]
“The girls have rights, and they shouldn’t have to share a bathroom with a boy,” said Tammy Sorden, who has a son at Hillsboro High. It is fine to be different, she said, but it is not right to give Lila special treatment “while the girls just have to suck it up.”
Students and parents interviewed after the walkout were overwhelmingly in support of keeping Lila, 17, out of the school facilities for girls. […]
Lila said, she should be able to use the facilities girls use.
“I wasn’t hurting anyone. I didn’t want to be in something gender-neutral,” she said, referring to the faculty bathroom administrators encouraged her to use. “I am a girl. I am not going to be pushed away to another bathroom.”
This young man should be treated with civility. However, donning a wig, a dress and makeup doesn’t make him female.
Locker rooms are fraught with enough angst for young people of either sex when balancing their own concerns about privacy and bodily integrity without making them co-ed.
This young man can “feel” whatever he feels between his ears. But he is still a fully intact and functioning male and has no business changing for PE in the girls locker room.
This is about requiring the world to participate in and celebrate someone else’s delusion. Last time I checked, there is no right requiring me to accede to your counterfactual reality.
(Yet another reason, BTW, to remove one’s children from the public schools.)
I think this is part and parcel of the crazy years we are living in. Mental illness is being celebrated as empowering.
The journalist who wrote the report quoted, Doug Moore, and the Editor who let it pass inspection, both should be shot for referring to the boy as ‘she’.
This age makes me so sick that sometimes I am almost impelled to stop at a corner and start calling down curses from Heaven.
—George Orwell
Shermlaw –
I think that gay marriage opponents are being required to accede to counterfactual reality – but then, I never realized how reality can be so profoundly changed by redefining a word.
We never should have allowed the word ‘marriage’ to be used metaphorically, I guess – maybe that’s what provided the wedge opening.
This young man should be treated with civility
Why? He’s not being civil. He’s having a tantrum and needs to be ignored or put in time out.
“This young man should be treated with civility.”
If that means pointing and laughing, sure, why not.
Greetings:
Lesbians, on the other hand, should just do whatever comes unnaturally in the girls’ showers.
Me, I going with the one, big, happy everyone showers until the Progressives wake up. Let some heteros have similar fun or are we to discriminate against that sexual orientation. (Not that we haven’t been for the last generation or two.
As untoward as this young “man’s” behavior is, the obvious direction of his path has be beaten for many a year. This is just another socio-political cramdown that will undermine and diminish even further what used to be our culture. And that cramdown is the result, as in so many other socio-political situations of allowing the initial misstep to go unchallenged due to false notions of politeness toward and compassion for those who intend to return neither. For me, all these issues were lost when the American Psychological Association was allowed to vote homosexuality out of its diagnostic manual back in 1973.
Yet, the years go by and no one anywhere challenges or even mentions that decision.
Plutarch, Caesar: 10. At the time of which I speak, Pompeia was celebrating this festival, and Clodius, who was still beardless and on this account thought to pass unnoticed, assumed the dress and implements of a lute-girl and went to the house, looking like a young woman. He found the door open, and was brought in safely by the maid-servant there, who was in the secret; [2] but after she had run on ahead to tell Pompeia and some time had elapsed, Clodius had not the patience to wait where he had been left, and so, as he was wandering about in the house (a large one) and trying to avoid the lights, an attendant of Aurelia came upon him and asked him to play with her, as one woman would another, and when he refused, she dragged him forward and asked who he was and whence he came. [3] Clodius answered that he was waiting for Pompeia’s Abra (this was the very name by which the maid was called), and his voice betrayed him. The attendant of Aurelia at once sprang away with a scream to the lights and the throng, crying out that she had caught a man. The women were panic-stricken, and Aurelia put a stop to the mystic rites of the goddess and covered up the emblems. Then she ordered the doors to be closed and went about the house with torches, searching for Clodius. [4] He was found where he had taken refuge, in the chamber of the girl who had let him into the house; and when they saw who he was, the women drove him out of doors. Then at once, and in the night, they went off and told the matter to their husbands, and when day came a report spread through the city that Clodius had committed sacrilege and owed satisfaction, not only to those whom he had insulted, but also to the city and to the gods. [5] Accordingly, one of the tribunes of the people indicted Clodius for sacrilege, and the most influential senators leagued themselves together and bore witness against him that, among other shocking abominations, he had committed adultery with his sister, who was the wife of Lucullus. But against the eager efforts of these men the people arrayed themselves in defence of Clodius, and were of great assistance to him with the jurors in the case, who were terror-stricken and afraid of the multitude. [6] Caesar divorced Pompeia at once, but when he was summoned to testify at the trial, he said he knew nothing about the matters with which Clodius was charged. His statement appeared strange, and the prosecutor therefore asked, ‘Why, then, didst thou divorce thy wife?’ ‘Because,’ said Caesar, ‘I thought my wife ought not even to be under suspicion’
So the desires of the one outweighs the desires of the many?
Lila get to chose but, the ordinary girls don’t. It is special treatment not equality.
Only slightly related but, funny to me.
In high school there was a hallway that led from the Football field/track and pass the boys locker room/showers and also led to the main gym.
The girls had their own gym but often used the main gym because the girls gym was old and small.
One day a girls PE teachers marched her girls from the main gym to the football field short cutting down that connecting hallway. I stood there half naked along with others in various stages of undress and do you know not one girl turned her head and even noticed what they were doing. I am not sure many of the boys noticed either. It came up short of being a great high school memory.
Don’t tell me, let me guess: “Lila” is a “lesbian trapped in a male body”.
Oh, I see a member of the “Juvenile Schoolyard Taunt Party” has paid us a visit.
(Second comment meant for the previous thread. Sorry.)
I’m going with the one, big, happy everyone showers until the Progressives wake up.
Yes, they’ve been shouting “please don’t throw us into that briar patch” for decades. Remember whom we’re dealing with:
The progressives are plenty awake and they know exactly what they want: to obliterate individuality. “Tolerance” for transgendered children is a Means To An End, not an end in itself.
It’s the rest of the country–who believes that the absurdity must certainly have an end–who need to wake up.
I think proggs hate innocence as much as individualality. That’s what Miley Cirus is about.
Innocence is no longer regarded as important to society, and so we culturally rot…
The most basic thing one can own is one’s own self, and not letting others touch that self in ways you don’t like is an exercise in self-ownership.
I was arguing with a couple of people who decided I must *hate* transpeople cuz I said the girls have a legitimate objection.
I asked over and over why they had no right to bodily integrity and privacy?
Never ever an answer… closest I got was that “anatomy isn’t important”
Yeah, right.
Why is it leftists can’t read a piece of distopian fiction (in this case, Brave New World) without turning it into a roadmap?
Means to an end, Ernst.
Unfortunately, acting like the alligator doesn’t make you less likely to be eaten by him.
Why is it leftists can’t read a piece of distopian fiction (in this case, Brave New World) without turning it into a roadmap?
Because they plan to be the boot stomping on someone’s face forever, not the face being stomped.
Socialism works splendidly for the Party Members: they can eliminate their enemies in the messiest way possible, they can glut themselves on the labor of the masses, and they can make wide swathes of people tremble in fear at the merest twitch of their eyebrows.
What’s not to love?
This young man should be treated with civility.
No, this young man should be treated with Vitamin H and whatever other psychiatric treatment he may respond to, unless he is just being a jackass in which case a strong pimp hand is clinically indicated.
BTW, it’s worth noting there is no mention of this kid’s parents. Where are they in all this?
In our socialist utopia, the parents are irrelevant.
This young man should be treated with civility.
Blame my own upbringing … I’ve dealt with any number of mentally challenged people; you can remain both firm and civil at the same time.
This young man has had his delusions enabled, feted and gilded for years. It isn’t all his fault and I wouldn’t treat him uncivilly…
but I would have him treated …