Maine Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Pupil

IMHO it is all about personal dignity and mutual respect..

I know the children did not get a vote in this, nor should they have, and I don't think the court got it right either. Not to mention the article was plainly biased by referring to a six year old child, who happens to own a penis, as a "girl" and repeatedly referring to this biological boy as "she".

My vote is still out on this, I don't think any person with a dick should be sharing a bathroom with elementary aged little girls. Whether that person considers them self a girl or not does not change biology.

and Frued was a bigger sexual freak than even you, but that aside. I still have to question the wisdom of allowing a person with a penis to be sharing the bathroom with little girls, I just can't see how this can be a good thing.

Contrary to what some would like us to believe, there is a big difference between boys and girls, men and women, just because one little boy is confused about his/her sexual identity, do we want to confuse an entire school of little girls as well. I am all for "minority rights" but not at the expense of the many

My bad... Read 5th graders & missed the 6-year old

Which makes this really weird...

Freud among other was aware of this and wrote extensively about it.

The overwhelming majority of humans on this planet are either men or women, boys or girls and figuring out one's sexual identity and where we fit in the world is tough enough under the best of circumstances, asking little children to deal with the complexities of transgender sexual identities is simply not fair to the little girls that are going to be affected.

If you hadn't noticed, even adults have a hard time dealing with this subject, do we really want to subject thousands of little girls to having to deal with this years before they even get their first period?

Chik-Fil-A founder yesterday, I would have thought you were more progressive when it came to sexual identity, and the randomness of the human body.

"Nicole is a biological male who identified as a girl beginning at age 2."  I would like to know a little more about how that all came about at age 2 and by whom.

Just who in their right mind would be looking to see if a toddler was "indentifying" as a male or female, and more importantly WHY???!!!

It does sound like some adult has an agenda here, sort of the opposite of the sicko Christians who claim to "pray the gay away" either way, something sounds seriously fucked up here.

I only skimmed the article.

Re: My bad... Read 5th graders & missed the 6-year old

Two different stories. The article was about the ruling in favor of the 5th grader (who would be between 10-11), and then also mentions the case in CO about the 6 year old who also was transgender.  

...but I'll go even further than those here who think this one is a "bit too much".

I still don't understand why several big cities have public high schools for LGBT students.

In my class in high school, I'd say that 50% or fewer of the students were sexually active at all.  Probably 1/3 or so had zero contact of any kind with the opposite (or the same) gender--no "second base", no "petting", no nuthin'.

Several guys and gals in that class professed interest in the opposite sex--and then later on "came out" as gay/bi.

My point?  I'm not sure why there is such a rush to have high school-aged (or younger) students to identify their sexual identities to begin with.  Many young people don't necessarily know "where they're at" sexually, and are still trying to figure it out.  I don't think that sexual activity among high-schoolers is necessarily a "given"--for some, it's probably best that they refrain until college-aged.

Adults give kids far too much credit for "understanding it all" IMHO--even in our modern hyper-sexualized culture.

Leave 'em alone.  Give the kids time to be kids.  Don't force an issue on them that they don't need to deal with.  Getting through adolescence is tough enough as it is.

(Go ahead and flame me now for being insufficiently open-minded now...I can take it...)

One may not know who one is sexually attracted to until later years, but a difference in gender, that can come early on.