CherryPanda
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A transgender teenager, who was born male but identifies as a female, can continue to use a women's restroom and locker room at a Jefferson County Public School.
In a 5-to-1 vote, an appeal board upheld Atherton High School's nondiscrimination policy Thursday, which states the school must accept the gender identity each student asserts and shouldn't discriminate on the use of school space on the basis of gender identity nor gender expression.
The current JCPS policy allows individual schools to set their own policies on the use of facilities.
Appeals board upholds high school bathroom policy for transgende - wave3.com-Louisville News Weather Sports
The story is so controversial that I had to spend several minutes just digesting it and coming to an opinion. And I had to say I am shocked.
First, I didn’t get from the article if the kid has already undergone the transgender surgery (haven’t found either if such surgery is even possible for teenagers). Because if he is physically a boy than it’s not really healthy to let him go to girls’ restroom.
Second, has anyone asked the girls how they would feel about a boy coming to their lady’s room? I bet they don’t care that he’s a girl in his head. So I wonder why it is considered ok that the right of the many for privacy is overruled by the right of one for… what, exactly?
Though I sympathize the kid in his/her struggle for identity and all, I don’t see the situation and the resolution as fair.