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Meh. Transgender doesn't qualify for a handicap sticker. Listen I'm not that defensive about it but to my personal bias, unisex bathrooms in public institutions such as grade school just don't make sense. Especially if the school is personally catering for one transgendered boy/girl.
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What rights are being infringed upon?
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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I didn't say it did. I was just saying that unisex bathrooms aren't all that wierd in public institutions.
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Certainly you aren't naive enough to think this kid isn't going to have the teachers walking on eggs. Just trying to remember to never refer to him as him or her, and making sure none of the other kids insult him. You know he's going to get special attention that detracts from the time spent on other kids. Hell, they are already spending money to send out pamphlets to all the parents.
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Letter home is no different (expense-wise) from the nits and strep ones. Teachers are already walking on eggs. They are afraid to hug crying children for fear of sexual abuse accusations. this is no biggie, comparatively.
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It's not a letter it's packets of information, not a sheet you run off on the xerox.
All this bullshit because this little bastard won't wear pants? Fuck him, he needs a good swift kick in the ass
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Perhaps the packets of information were donated by some agency or group to help this child. There's really no reference to what these 'packets' of information are. In fact, the word 'packet' can refer to a steam of images from a movie set even, as you no doubt know. I don't see what the problem is. Srsly. What's wrong with a school educating parents a little anyway? Aren't schools supposed to educate?
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And perhaps they weren't. The little brat still needs a kick in the ass.
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Hmmm....I think my kids need a man like Bruce around.
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As an example of what NOT to be.
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Bah, the kid may be queer, or just effeminate, or whatever, but third grade is too early to figure that out. Put on a pair of pants and get with the program.
He can make major lifestyle changes, on his own time, when it becomes important.
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I'm not sure what the actual day-to-day impact of this would be. They're not teaching different curriculum to boys and girls, so, what's the difference which gender he wants to "identify" with?
I have a weird first name, many teachers asked me what I want to "go by" ...so calling people different things is already in place. No change there. Schools already have a dress code, so shouldn't be any question there. Everybody wears the uniform. If you can get a doctor to diagnose you as needing to wear a different uniform for some medical reason, then that part would be a factor. What else is there?
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'nuff said.
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