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In looking at the Palatine, Illinois case, where parents are suing the school board because a trans student was granted access to the girls locker room, it looks like the school only made the decision because of guidance from the Department of Education.

So, again, it was the heavy handedness of the federal government that helped to create the issue.

 

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Is that the claim?

Here's what the Chicago Tribune says the plaintiffs in the Palatine case are arguing:

In a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday, the group contends that the actions of the Department of Education and Palatine-based Township High School District 211 "trample students' privacy" rights and create an "intimidating and hostile environment" for students who share the locker rooms and restrooms with the transgender student.
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"Students have an expectation of privacy in restrooms and locker rooms, and that expectation is violated when a school puts the opposite-sex student in those kinds of private and intimate facilities," said Jeremy Tedesco, attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious legal advocacy group representing the plaintiffs.
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The religious liberty group Thomas More Society also is representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which seeks to keep the district from enforcing the locker room agreement and restroom policy and to bar the Department of Education from taking action against the district. The plaintiffs also argue in the suit that the locker room agreement prevents students from practicing the modesty that their faith requires of them.
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"To impose such a rule on still-developing teenage girls — already struggling with puberty's changes on their bodies and social pressures to look a certain way — undermines their dignity and tells them that their rights don't matter," Floyd said.

One student who opted to use the privacy stall said she was called "transphobic" and "homophobic," according to the lawsuit, which stated that she now wears her gym clothes under her school clothes to avoid changing in the locker room.

Lawsuit filed after transgender student gets locker room access in Palatine

 

So if not for the heavy handedness of the federal government the student who identifies as a girl could take a hike?

 

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Yes, that's the claim by a lot of people who are in favor of bathroom bills that restrict usage of the facilities that match the birth certificate.

 

Would there be no other way to accommodate this girl?

A hockey team I played against in high school had a backup goalie who was a girl. She didn't change in the locker room with the rest of the team. There have been other examples of this on sports teams.

I'm pretty sure they could have found a place for this girl to change, that would have respected her privacy, as well as the concerns of other kids and parents.

 

Is it the claim in any of the lawsuits?

 

I don't disagree. I don't know all of the back story behind the North Carolina law or why Republicans in that state suddenly thought they needed to make this their cause. It's kind of a silly issue for both sides to decide should be one of the great battles of our time, considering it probably actually affects a tiny number of people (in the three or four figures, most likely) in any given city.

 

I never said it was. But those lines have been used quite a bit by those in favor of the ban and that was who I was talking about.

 

Sensibly, yes, but when you have people looking to take out their anger on schools -- and that should sound familiar to you -- you get someone suing because the facilities are "unequal."

 

So, in contrast, tourism to places like Paris, where large numbers of refugees have been accepted must be way up, as travelers show their appreciation with their wallets, right?

No. Not really.



(Also, Trump is apparently hammering Paris as unsafe in today's CPAC speech. LOL.)