MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Around 150 students at Hillsboro (Mo.) High School walked out of school Monday to protest against a trans classmate using the girls’ locker room during gym class. Thirty or forty students also protested in support of Lila Perry, a Hillsboro senior who has identified as female since age 13 and came out as trans last school year.
Perry declined the school’s offer of a Title IX-compliant gender neutral locker room on principle, deciding to drop gym class altogether. She tries to avoid using the bathroom at school, but when she does, she uses the girls’ bathroom. And she will continue to do so.
“I am a girl,” she said, “I am not going to be pushed away to another bathroom.”
Comments
This is a far more complicated question than the use of restrooms. A school gym locker room is an open area with little privacy, and (at least for girls, but I imagine for some boys) can be difficult and embarrassing. I assume the young woman still maintains male genitalia - which makes this particular issue problematic.
by barefooted on Wed, 09/02/2015 - 12:24am
How can it be problematic? I've been informed here quite strenuously that gender is what ever a person says they are. As Lila said, "I am a girl." Several people here have explained to me that the fact that she has a penis is irrelevant.
Funny thing, I can support free speech without having to believe in the speech. As goes the old cliche, "I disagree with everything you say but I will defend your right to say it."
I can support freedom of religion without having to believe in the fantasies of the religious. No one seems to challenge that.
But for some reason I can't support the rights of transgendered unless I believe that they are women or men simply because they say they are.
The plight of LBGT is horrible and they certainly deserve to have their civil rights protected. But imo men do not become women and women do not become men just because they say they are. If Lila is a girl because she says she is then she has the right to use the girl's locker room. The other girls will just have to get accustomed to seeing her penis.
by ocean-kat on Wed, 09/02/2015 - 9:12am
But does she have a girl penis or a boy's penis? File under "questions your parents never had to ask."
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/02/2015 - 9:15am