Showing posts with label Transgender Students. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transgender Students. Show all posts

6/16/13

Victory In Queensland! 9 Year Old Transgender Student Will Use the Girls Room

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Emma Hayes' Queenland school had originally denied her access to the girls bathroom but after her mother complained the school relabeled the disabled toilet to read Unisex. Do this only served to increase the possibility of bullying by 'othering' her.

That wasn't good enough, and her mother threatened to file a human rights complaint so the school threw in the towel, so to speak.

On Friday, Education Queensland North Coast regional director Colin Allen-Waters said Emma had been given permission to use the girls' toilets and will be allowed to play sports Nine News Reports

11/10/11

Transgender High School Teens Harassed One Suspended for using the Restroom

FORT COLLINS - Two Fort Collins High School students say they don't feel welcome on campus because they say they're not allowed to use the restrooms they want. Both identify themselves as transgender.

Sixteen-year-old Dionne Malikowski was born male, but she now identifies as transgender. Her friend Kurt Peters, also 16, was born female and says he is transgender as well."
Source 9News.com 9 News.com

"This is who we are we're just like everyone else, normal teenagers."





School officials said there wasn't any official policy regarding transgender students using public faculties. So let me help you out on that. Source: transgenderlaw.org/ndlaws/ColoradoFAQ