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NEW: @DailySignal spent this week in Randolph, Vermont, speaking to high school girls who face heavy criticism + potential punishment from their school for pushing back against a biological male using their locker room. Here's what these girls have to say for themselves:
First, the story broke. Then, the story was removed when the ACLU and various LGBTQ activists complained about it. The news outlet agreed to work on a new story that met their approval. The Daily Signal traveled to Vermont to get the girls' side of the story.
During a well-attended Tuesday evening forum with parents, school Superintendent Layne Millington claimed that coverage of the girls’ pushback has sparked hatred and bigotry toward both the trans-identifying student and the school district. And other parents and students criticized Blake and her family for speaking up on the matter.
Parents who spoke with The Daily Signal said the superintendent and the forum did not focus on the most pressing matter at hand: their daughters’ discomfort at having a biologically male student in the locker room able to observe them while they are changing.
Parents we spoke with told us that they are outraged that the school district and the high school would allow such an incident to even occur—they don’t want biological boys in their daughters’ locker rooms, and they are bewildered as to why the school system is apparently prioritizing the needs of students who identify as transgender over their daughters. They also strongly pushed back against allegations that speaking up is hateful.
“I want all kids, all kids at RUHS to feel safe, all kids nationwide to feel safe in their spaces where they need to change or are supposed to be private spaces,” Blake’s mother, Jessica Allen, told us. “We have to get creative as a nation to really figure out how to keep everybody safe, and everyone working together. The hate really does need to stop, because that’s not what this is about…let’s have an open dialogue about how to keep everybody safe and feeling comfortable, because we’ve taught children to protect their bodies.”
Why should girls have to be made uncomfortable because a male wants to use their shower and changing room? Why?
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: infolurker
The locker room was to shield kids from the other genders body and to minimize the tension sexuality induces, it has nothing to do with your DNA...
They should change them to vagina and tities and pecker rooms... Problem solved...
I can guarantee you the guy with a vagina is much worse off in a male locker room...
but I guess you phobic folks would actually wish that on him...
If he feels like a woman looks and acts like a woman, it's prolly just some xenophobic religious zealots trying to bitch around...they come in all gender...
Now certainly there are lesbians...
...and some are predators...
...it should be handled just as swiftly as any sexual predatory behavior.... but again noting to do with DNA...
originally posted by: Spacespider
Again.. where are the parents in all this ?
They are the ones that can put a stop to this madness happening in the schools.
The Daily Signal has spoken with a number of parents who are outraged that the school and Orange Southwest School District allowed such an incident to occur. These parents do not want biological boys in their daughters’ locker rooms, and they are bewildered as to why the school system apparently prioritizes the needs of students who identify as transgender over the needs of their daughters.
“We allowed a child who is biologically the opposite sex, male, go in a locker room where biologically girls were getting fully changed,” one of the girls’ mothers told The Daily Signal. “The biological child was not changing and sat in the back and watched girls getting changed. That made girls feel uncomfortable, made girls feel violated and not protected.”
“When parents and kids went to the school principals they were told it was a law—nothing they could do about it,” she added. “The law gives them room to protect all and they did not.”
But female student B said that on Thursday, during a math class, some of her friends showed the news hit to the trans-identifying student. According to female student B, the student allegedly reacted to the video by allegedly saying, “I’m going to f—ing kill someone,” before allegedly adding, “I f—ing hate” female student B.
Female student A and B both told The Daily Signal that the student had allegedly also said, “my male instincts are kicking in,” referring to another female students’ breasts (though neither female student A nor female student B heard the remarks made herself).
“I am the mother of the trans student in question and my daughter did not make any comments at all. The entire team can back this up, other than the girl that made up the story for attention,” Facebook user Mo Sivvy posted (she did not immediately respond to a request for comment).
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: Boadicea
So what...?Is the separation in looker about the genitalia or about the DNA?
I doubt the males in question still have a pecker.
I'd say if the teeny bitches...
...didn't knew he transitioned they wouldn't be aware of the diffrent DNA...
So it is based on some irrational phobia rather than a direct thread of male genitalia invading female lockers...
If however it's a horny smart ass boy, that taught he could go and watch the girls if he cross dress I totally agree and it isn't ok.
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: Boadicea
So what...?Is the separation in looker about the genitalia or about the DNA?
I doubt the males in question still have a pecker. I'd say if the teeny bitches didn't knew he transitioned they wouldn't be aware of the diffrent DNA... So it is based on some irrational phobia rather than a direct thread of male genitalia invading female lockers...
If however it's a horny smart ass boy, that taught he could go and watch the girls if he cross dress I totally agree and it isn't ok.
WCAX news director Roger Garrity said the station took it down last week "to prevent others from using our reporting to attack people in the transgender community.