Another "I need a cigarette" court opinion - Transgender

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bathroom access in schools...

GG, by his next friend and mother Deirdre Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board

G.G., then a fifteen-year-old transgender boy, addressed the Gloucester County School Board on November 11, 2014, to explain why he was not a danger to other students. He explained that he had used the boys’ bathroom in public places throughout Gloucester County and had never had a confrontation. He explained that he is a person worthy of dignity and privacy. He explained why it is humiliating to be segregated from the general population. He knew, intuitively, what the law has in recent decades acknowledged: the perpetuation of stereotypes is one of many forms of invidious discrimination. And so he hoped that his heartfelt explanation would help the powerful adults in his community come to understand what his adolescent peers already did. G.G. clearly and eloquently attested that he was not a predator, but a boy, despite the fact that he did not conform to some people’s idea about who is a boy.

www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/161733R1.P.pdf

(footnote 1: footage of his compelling speech can be seen on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=My0GYq_Wydw&feature=youtu.be)

(I just wish it was more than merely vacating a preliminary injunction. But it's beautiful to read.)

[erbear]

I feel like a broken record but WHY DO YOU CARE?! (Not you, the general public who opposes this). How is it harming anyone to allow someone to use a goddamn bathroom? It's clearly not about the bathroom so what is it? Fear of the unknown? Homophobia? Idiocy of not understanding gender identity?

I teach middle school. I have had a transgender student each of the last three years. All have used bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. They stayed in gender appropriate cabins on school retreats. Hell, the athletics league we play is says they play on the teams that match their genders. Everyone is fine and I can't understand the other side here.

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And here's an almost as lovely WaPo article on him and the case. www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/judges-hail-transgender-teen-gavin-grimm-as-human-rights-leader/2017/04/07/ade47f12-1bc8-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html?utm_term=.b321ddc4d5f4