FEDERAL COURT TO SCHOOL: OPEN BOY'S BATHROOM TO GIRL
Dissenting judge calls decision 'illogical and unworkable'
Cheryl Chumley
A federal circuit court ruled a Virginia school board violated Title IX law by prohibiting a girl who considers herself a boy from using the male restroom facilities.
And the dissenting judge was not happy, telling his two colleagues who ruled against the school that their way of thinking was “illogical and unworkable,” Breitbart reported.
The case stems from a girl who was listed in court filings as G.G. and who claimed she actually felt like a boy. The Gloucester County school she attended let her use a private bathroom that was available for use by all students, but she didn’t like the arrangement and said it caused her anxiety and therefore, wanted to use the boy’s facilities.
The school at first said OK, but parents complained to the school board. The board members ruled the girl had to use either the restroom that corresponded with her birth gender, or the private facility that had already been provided.
G.G. sued, lost and then appealed to the Fourth Circuit and won.
Judge Henry Floyd, an appointee of President Obama’s who decided in G.G.’s favor, called her a “transgender boy,” and said parents who complained of her use of boys’ facilities to the school board had “displayed hostility,” he said, Breitbart reported.
But dissenting Judge Paul Niemeyer slammed the majority’s opinion.
“The majority’s opinion, for the first time ever, holds that a public high school may not provide separate restrooms and locker rooms on the basis of biological sex,” he wrote, Breitbart reported. “Rather it must now allow a biological male student who identifies as female to use the girls’ restrooms and locker rooms and, likewise, must allow a biological female student who identifies as male to use the boys’ restrooms and locker rooms. This holding completely tramples on all universally accepted protections of privacy and safety that are based on the anatomical differences between the sexes.”
And he went on, the news outlet reported: “This unprecedented holding overrules custom, culture and the very demands inherent in human nature for privacy and safety, which the separation of such facilities is designed to protect.”
He called the opinion “illogical and unworkable,” and said “no restroom or locker room separation could ever be accomplished consistent with [this] becuase a transgender student’s use of a boys’ or girls’ restroom or locker room could not satisfy they conjuctive criteria.”
Title IX prohibits discrimination based on gender. But recent determinations from the federal Department of Education, sent to the school via a letter last year, has muddied the law because it put forth the notion “gender identity” falls under those same Title IX protections.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/04/fed-court-to-school-open-boys-bathroom-to-girl/#XezAQjckvXkcF00f.99My comments: This Evil Court Ruling is Against God and His Word and they will, one day, give an account to Him.
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