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Transgender student pleas with CCSD to step up, protect her rights

Started by traci_k, May 27, 2015, 06:49:30 AM

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Transgender student pleas with CCSD to step up, protect her rights

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/education/transgender-student-pleas-ccsd-step-protect-her-rights

By NEAL MORTON
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Kristina Hernandez waited nearly a year before she could use the girl's restroom at Harney Middle School.

A sixth-grader at the time, Kristina spent the summer after elementary school preparing to transition from male to female — something she had desired for years. She encountered no in­tolerance from other students and said no parent lodged a single complaint about their child sharing a restroom or locker room with her.


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Traci Melissa Knight
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suzifrommd

A very balanced article from a part of the world known to be somewhat partisan. Gives me hope.
Have you read my short story The Eve of Triumph?
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