CNN Legal Analyst Peddles Misinformation About Transgender Students, Gender Id

[Amelia Pond]

CNN Legal Analyst Peddles Misinformation About Transgender Students, Gender Identity
CARLOS MAZA, August 14, 2013, 5:44 PM EDT

CNN legal analyst Paul Callan criticized a recently enacted California law that will allow transgender students to have access to facilities and sports teams that correspond to their gender identity, arguing that non-discrimination law had moved too quickly with respect to transgender elementary school students.

During the August 13 edition of CNN Newsroom, host Ashleigh Banfield invited Callan and criminal defense attorney Danny Cevallos to discuss the recently enacted law. Cevallos warned that the measure might "infring[e] on the privacy of other children," asserting - without evidence or explanation - that the mere presence of a transgender student would be enough to violate other students' privacy rights.

Callan echoed his concerns, suggesting that protections for transgender students had "moved a little too fast in this area" and questioning if children in the first grade could even be identified as transgender[.]

[Vicky]

For the truly little this bill really did, it is sure a hot button item out on the staboard wing of the spacecraft.  Less than 20 words were added to an existing statute on California's books.  There are more than adequate safeguards and physical privacy enhancements made to student sanitary facilities in California Schools, some of them requested by relgious groups long before TG became an issue, others mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act and its California spin-off.  Some have been in place for half a century.   Much ado about doo doo.