The Massachusetts Department of Education has issued a new directive for schools in the handling of
transgendered students, including allowing them to use whichever restroom they choose.
“Transgender students who are uncomfortable using a sex-segregated restroom should be provided with a safe and adequate alternative, such as a single ‘unisex’ restroom or the nurse’s restroom,” the 11-page directive reads.
The directive also states even though some students may feel uncomfortable with sharing the same sex-segregated restroom or locker room as the transgendered student, the “this discomfort is not a reason to deny access to the transgender student.”
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The directive also requires that all transgendered students be allowed to participating in gender-specific activities that he or she identifies with.
“A student who says she is a girl and wishes to be regarded that way throughout the school day and throughout every, or almost every, other area of her life, should be respected and treated like a girl,” the guidelines stipulate.
If you have a problem with any of this, you must be... disordered.
Get it?
The most generous estimate of transgendered people I found was 0.2%, with many sources placing the percentage around 0.01% or even less.
Posted by: alfred | Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 11:13 PM