Transgender Triplet banned from 1st grade Restroom

[my my my!]

http://gma.yahoo.com/transgender-tri...ws-health.html

Coy Mathis, born a male triplet, has behaved like a girl since she was 18 months old. When her brother Max was consumed with dinosaurs, she was playing with Barbie dolls. By 4, she was telling her mother that something was wrong with her body.

Since being enrolled at Eagle Elementary School in Fountain, Colo., the 6-year-old has presented as female and wearing girls' clothing. Her classmates and teachers have used female pronouns to refer to her, and she has used the girls' bathrooms.

But since December, school officials have told her parents she can no longer use the female facilities and ordered her to use the boys' or nurse's bathroom.

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What do you guys and girls think about this?

[dabaldone]

People are still very ignorant when it comes to trans issues. They continue to believe that gender AND sexuality are simple black and white issues. The comments folks make are disgusting. That's why so many young trans folk commit suicide. Shame!

[maxpower]

Good article about Coy Mathis and trans youth rights in the new issue of Rolling Stone.


http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/...ender-20131028

[tsmirandameadows]

Good article about Coy Mathis and trans youth rights in the new issue of Rolling Stone.


http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/...ender-20131028

Great article. But as is always the case, the article comments make clear that this an issue of which most people don't want greater understanding nor do they want the empathy which such understanding would bring. For most of the world, trans people are still disgusting degenerates fully deserving of the scorn and pariah status they have to put up with. That hurts, and the only consolation is that the under-35 set seems to be much more open minded in this regard, and eventually the haters are just going to die off.

[my my my!]

Great article. But as is always the case, the article comments make clear that this an issue of which most people don't want greater understanding nor do they want the empathy which such understanding would bring. For most of the world, trans people are still disgusting degenerates fully deserving of the scorn and pariah status they have to put up with. That hurts, and the only consolation is that the under-35 set seems to be much more open minded in this regard, and eventually the haters are just going to die off.

Miranda, I've brought this up before as well.

Many Transgendered individuals associate themselves with "gay pride" parades, marches, and gatherings, where there are hairy men wearing dresses with no wigs and no attempt to show transsexuality in a positive light making out in public and showing a very degenerate version of a LGBT individual to the public.

The rest of the world sees footage of these parades or public gatherings of LGBT groups, and probably think transsexuals are a bunch of old men perverts dressing up for kicks. And real transgendered individuals standing next to them on the floats, get lumped in with that group.

I think the Transgendered struggle should be independent and not associated with the LGBT movement other than in solidarity. But showing up at those flamboyant , out there events sheds a negative light and actually sets transgendered progress back a little bit.

[maxpower]

Great article. But as is always the case, the article comments make clear that this an issue of which most people don't want greater understanding nor do they want the empathy which such understanding would bring. For most of the world, trans people are still disgusting degenerates fully deserving of the scorn and pariah status they have to put up with. That hurts, and the only consolation is that the under-35 set seems to be much more open minded in this regard, and eventually the haters are just going to die off.

I read it in the magazine, so I wasn't subjected to the moronic comments. The haters are always the most vocal. I think society at large is a little more accepting than those comments would make it seem. At least I hope it is. People who are supportive aren't as rabidly vocal and obnoxious about it. Maybe we should be more outspoken.

[tsmirandameadows]

That's partly why I've never been to a pride event, and put distance between myself and drag/crossdressing culture. This isn't to imply a judgment on my part against these folks. Rather, I just don't identify with them, at all, and thus don't feel a particular need to be a part of their celebratory events. Drag in particular has always bothered me because it seems to be predicated on the idea that it's funny and entertaining when men "pretend" to be women. I just want to be myself and be accepted for that, no more no less.

[tsmirandameadows]

I read it in the magazine, so I wasn't subjected to the moronic comments. The haters are always the most vocal. I think society at large is a little more accepting than those comments would make it seem. At least I hope it is. People who are supportive aren't as rabidly vocal and obnoxious about it. Maybe we should be more outspoken.

Well my concern is that such comments are a function of anonymity. Yes, polite society largely won't say such things, unless they're appearing on Fox News, but I kinda suspect that it's a result of polite society not wanting to say anything offensive in person, as opposed to truly not having prejudice in its heart. But I may be reading it wrong. As I've said elsewhere, the three year period in which I was unemployed and facing constant rejection and shunning, was a pretty searing experience, which has left me highly suspicious of the notion I'll ever have a place in mainstream society, even if I'm much more passable and pretty now.

[itis618]

This is not an issue at all. If you are a parent, would you want a chick with a dick to use the restroom with your daughter. How confusing would that be for the daughter. Coy should use the nurses bathroom. Its really not an issue at all.

[danthepoetman]

This is not an issue at all. If you are a parent, would you want a chick with a dick to use the restroom with your daughter. How confusing would that be for the daughter. Coy should use the nurses bathroom. Its really not an issue at all.

A "chick with a dick"? Man, we're talking about a 6 years old, here! Besides, she's a transsexual girl, which simply means, a little girl! You are confusing porn and reality, as so many guys are, here on HA -and elsewhere. The "Chicks with dicks" are fantasies! Transsexual women are not futanaris or Dick Girls, damn it! They are regular women, born in the wrong body. At this age, they're just completely confused and hurt to realize that their sense of identity is negated by their own body. Do you have any kind of idea how this must feel?
This little girl is not thinking about anything else, of course, than to go to school like any other little girl, and do the same things that any of the other little girls are doing!
Itis, you have to get some information about transsexuality before commenting on topics like this one. Right now, even though a member of a site where you can exchange with t-women, you're obviously still a part of the problem...