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Title: Our Transgender Daughter Is Just Another Girl: Tell Her School to Stop Discrimi
Post by: Shana A on March 06, 2013, 09:54:08 AM
Post by: Shana A on March 06, 2013, 09:54:08 AM
http://www.change.org/petitions/our-transgender-daughter-is-just-another-girl-tell-her-school-to-stop-discriminating (http://www.change.org/petitions/our-transgender-daughter-is-just-another-girl-tell-her-school-to-stop-discriminating)
Our Transgender Daughter Is Just Another Girl: Tell Her School to Stop Discriminating
Petition by Kathryn & Jeremy Mathis
We are Kathryn and Jeremy Mathis, the parents of five children in Fountain, Colorado. One of our daughters, Coy, is six years old and in first grade. Just before Christmas, Coy's school told us that after winter break, they would no longer allow her to use the girls' bathroom, because she is transgender.
They gave Coy three options for where to go to the bathroom; the boys' room, the staff bathroom with adults, or the nurse's bathroom which is used by sick children.
Coy is not sick, she is not an adult, and she is not a boy.
Coy is a girl. She wears girls' clothes, is addressed by everyone at the school using female pronouns, and has been accepted by her classmates and teachers as a girl. But if the school separates her from all her classmates to use the bathroom, they are singling her out for mistreatment, and teaching her classmates that it's okay to discriminate.
We want our daughter to have the same educational opportunities as every other Colorado student.
Our Transgender Daughter Is Just Another Girl: Tell Her School to Stop Discriminating
Petition by Kathryn & Jeremy Mathis
We are Kathryn and Jeremy Mathis, the parents of five children in Fountain, Colorado. One of our daughters, Coy, is six years old and in first grade. Just before Christmas, Coy's school told us that after winter break, they would no longer allow her to use the girls' bathroom, because she is transgender.
They gave Coy three options for where to go to the bathroom; the boys' room, the staff bathroom with adults, or the nurse's bathroom which is used by sick children.
Coy is not sick, she is not an adult, and she is not a boy.
Coy is a girl. She wears girls' clothes, is addressed by everyone at the school using female pronouns, and has been accepted by her classmates and teachers as a girl. But if the school separates her from all her classmates to use the bathroom, they are singling her out for mistreatment, and teaching her classmates that it's okay to discriminate.
We want our daughter to have the same educational opportunities as every other Colorado student.
Title: Re: Our Transgender Daughter Is Just Another Girl: Tell Her School to Stop Discrimi
Post by: Lorri Kat on March 06, 2013, 03:01:02 PM
Post by: Lorri Kat on March 06, 2013, 03:01:02 PM
After that the battle of where to change for Gym class.. These 'current' mental scars over the potty are going to be nothing compaired to whats to come. :'( As crule as society is in general it does not even compare to the visceral onslught wrought forth by teenagers in a pack. I am estatic she does not have to pretend to be someone she is not and at the same time mortified for her by what I know lies ahead.
Title: Re: Our Transgender Daughter Is Just Another Girl: Tell Her School to Stop Discrimi
Post by: kelly25 on March 06, 2013, 04:55:38 PM
Post by: kelly25 on March 06, 2013, 04:55:38 PM
I have to say this makes me smile her parents fighting for her rights. I wonder what parent complained or parents I should say I betting some kid told there parents about her and there parents not understanding freaked out called a bunch of others parentss than called the bord to complaine that's usuall how these things happen common she been using the bathroom for half the year why all sudden the change
Title: Re: Our Transgender Daughter Is Just Another Girl: Tell Her School to Stop Discrimi
Post by: Lorri Kat on March 07, 2013, 01:01:11 PM
Post by: Lorri Kat on March 07, 2013, 01:01:11 PM
Quote from: kelly25 on March 06, 2013, 04:55:38 PM
I have to say this makes me smile her parents fighting for her rights. I wonder what parent complained or parents I should say I betting some kid told there parents about her and there parents not understanding freaked out called a bunch of others parentss than called the bord to complaine that's usuall how these things happen common she been using the bathroom for half the year why all sudden the change
School boards are 'elected'. Mob ruled democracy at its worst.