Penises to the left, Gina's to the right... Or not?

[Spomd]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/...ker-rooms/


NEW CALIFORNIA LAW ALLOWS KIDS CONFUSED ABOUT THEIR ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ TO CHOOSE RESTROOMS, LOCKER ROOMS
Aug. 12, 2013 6:15pm Oliver Darcy
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Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a new law into effect on Monday afternoon affording students confused about their “gender identity” a host of new rights, including the ability to use either a boy’s or girl’s restroom and either locker room.

The legislation, Assembly Bill 1266, authored by Democratic State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano from San Francisco, allows students in grades as young as kindergarten to use “facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records.”

Ammiano’s spokesman, Carlos Alcala, told TheBlaze on Monday afternoon the bill would even permit high school males who say they identify as females, to use a woman’s locker room.

“If that’s his deep gender identity, yes,” Alcala said.


California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1266 into law on Monday allowing students confused about their “gender identity” to use either the boy’s or girl’s restroom. (AP)
Speaking to parents and students who may be unhappy with the new law, Alcala said Ammiano would tell them that “being uncomfortable does not justify discrimination.”

Alcala, however, added that if “somebody is a boy or has appeared as a boy for six months of school comes to school one day and says I’m a girl and need to use the girl locker room… I think school officials would have a hard time saying that’s fine.”

He admitted that under the new law there is no method in which a school official can actually deny such a student the ability to use whichever facility he or she says they identify with.

“There is nothing in the bill to spell out what the process is,” Alcala said.

Randy Thomasson, of the socially conservative advocacy group SaveCalifornia.com, called the law “insanity.”

“This radical bill warps the gender expectations of children by forcing all California public schools to permit biological boys in girls restrooms, showers, clubs and on girls sports teams and biological girls in boys restrooms, showers, clubs and sports teams,” he told Fox News.

The bill only applies to grades K-12 and does not apply to private schools, according to Alcala.

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CHAOS!!!

[ramseycat]

Good grief.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

That is truly fucked up

[HairOfTheDog]

Ignorant and unnecessary law, IMO.

But, then, most of Ammiano's sponsored bills are ignorant and push unnecessary laws on the huge majority in order to champion the perceived wishes of the very very very few. The man's less rational in face-to-face debate than in his inane bill drafts even. He's a funny guy, and not in a good way.



Brown, well, I don't know what he was really thinking when he signed the bill into law.

Anyway, Gina will probably live.

The other kids will live.

And, I imagine very few kids would be willing to admit being gender-confused or fake being gender-confused just to use the bathroom or locker room of the biologically opposite sex. If it does happen, smart school administrators can push it right back at the assemblyman and the governor if any chaos ensues.

[Spomd]

My assumption is that only the ones that want to take advantage of the system will use the privilege...the ones far from "confused" about their gender identity. The ones that want to see the boobs! Cause some chaos in the girls' locker room... or the opposite. Maybe it will be those mean bully girls who decide to pop into the boys' locker room. Yup, that's probably more like it. Ruining lives, one bully and stupid law at a timeLOL

[sally]

“being uncomfortable does not justify discrimination.”

How is it discrimination to expect that your daughter shouldn't be forced to watch he/shes whip out their schlongs in the locker room? Or vice versa. I don't think high school boys would mind, but I'm sure quite a few elementary school boys would feel uncomfortable going to the bathroom with girls. What about their rights to take a shit in peace?

[Spomd]

If this happened here I'd pull my kids that day. No way I'd place them into a setting where they are sharing a restroom with hormonal teen boys. Locker rooms, EVEN WORSE! They already check their rights at the door. WTF!

[sally]

My son goes to high school with a couple of boys that dress and act as girls, I could see them utilizing that law. They really do want to be girls, but unfortunately everyone knows they have dicks and to undress in the girls locker room just isn't appropriate.

I can already picture the black girls in the locker room "oh no he didn't girl, oh no he didn't".

[Duchess]

It's ridiculous to apply that to little kids. When I was in kindergarten and a few years beyond, I related more to little boys than to little girls with all their pink, prissy bullshit. I would have been labeled gender confused. That's such a crock of shit.

[HairOfTheDog]

There are plenty of opponents throughout California; this is something that probably has a good deal of support in San Francisco and Berkeley; some public schools here already have their own transgender student policies. But, I'd imagine the vast majority of the state opposes it.

Ammiano is from San Francisco and he's a champion of the LGBT community; it goes a long way with his voter base to author and push through such legislation.

But, there are still 3 more days for lobbyists against the law, which includes allowing transgender kids to choose whether they want to play on the boys or girls sports team, to collect the required signatures for repeal. If enough signatures are gathered, then the law won't go into effect as of Jan 1^st, as currently slated. Instead, it'll be up for vote in California in 2014. If it goes to vote, it will fail.

Interesting times.

I feel for anyone who has gender identity issues, or thinks that they do. But, it really makes no sense to suggest, as Ammiano and his cronies have, that this law would prevent little boys dressed as girls from being bullied in the boys' rooms. Lots of little girls and teen girls are scarier than their male counterparts, in my experience.

Just don't think this is one for the law books.

[Duchess]

Lots of little girls and teen girls are scarier than their male counterparts, in my experience.

I think they rank up there with the Taliban & al Qaeda. I'm only slightly, very slightly, exaggerating.

[Maggot]

Well it sure opens the door for Boomer the dog.......

Boomer the dog has a bone to pick with the world. He wants to be accepted for his doggie lifestyle.

Born Gary Matthews, the retired technology worker and a self-confessed "nerd" thinks he is a dog. The 48-year-old wears a dog collar, eats dog food from a bowl — his favorite is Pedigree – and loves milk bones and dog cookies.

"I don't eat dog food every day," Matthews told ABCNews.com "It's a special thing for me to do once in awhile to get closer to feeling like a canine. I eat the canned kind. It's not bad -- it tastes OK. I eat regular human food, too, like pizza."