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So, After All The Bullshit Bathroom Panic Bills About Trans Kids ... (Original Post) ItsjustMe Apr 2021 OP
I might've enjoyed seeing that fight Walleye Apr 2021 #1
If she was my daughter, I would Haggard Celine Apr 2021 #2
+1000 MLAA Apr 2021 #4
+1, right !? uponit7771 Apr 2021 #5
Agreed. Caliman73 Apr 2021 #17
Terrifying. Yes. Anything she needed to do to get out of there safely is reasonable. lostnfound Apr 2021 #24
Toxic adolescent males,.. magicarpet Apr 2021 #3
"buy-bull" BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #19
Washingotn Post article about the incident csziggy Apr 2021 #6
That's one way to end a stupid protest IronLionZion Apr 2021 #10
That girl deserves a medal Warpy Apr 2021 #11
If she felt threatened, she got over it. keithbvadu2 Apr 2021 #14
OR... her autonomic nervous system kicked in for the FIGHT response. Caliman73 Apr 2021 #18
expulsion is overkill dsc Apr 2021 #21
picking nits... SleeplessinSoCal Apr 2021 #7
I hope she sues! Behind the Aegis Apr 2021 #8
Suspended for freeing herself from unlawful imprisonment and probable rape? Takket Apr 2021 #9
Please Don't Throw Around The R Word If There Was No R DanieRains Apr 2021 #12
Sounds to me like she used force to escape a kidnapping. world wide wally Apr 2021 #13
She should have had a gun, they'd be so confused. zaj Apr 2021 #15
Guard the door. keithbvadu2 Apr 2021 #16
Perhaps she thought she was helping him with his own transition. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #20
So where is Catlyn Jenner..oh wait she's on team racist, bigotedrepublikkklan who hate ..wait for it RestoreAmerica2020 Apr 2021 #22
This message was self-deleted by its author RestoreAmerica2020 Apr 2021 #23
April 2019, how is this relevant? It's on social media as clickbait wedge issue. Nt lostnfound Apr 2021 #25

Haggard Celine

(16,820 posts)
2. If she was my daughter, I would
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 03:33 PM
Apr 2021

take her out to eat and buy her something nice. You have to be proud of a girl who doesn't take any shit from anybody.

Caliman73

(11,690 posts)
17. Agreed.
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 05:16 PM
Apr 2021

Look, violence is not the best solution in 99% of cases, but when you feel threatened and other options have been exhausted, the school
"Zero Tolerance" policies can be stupid.

I have told my kids, that if I ever hear about them bullying anyone, I will come down harder than the school ever could, but if they have to defend themselves and have exhausted other options and get suspended, I will take them to Disneyland or something of the sort.

Being trapped in a bathroom, especially by a group of stupid teenage boys would be terrifying. She was right to want to defend herself and if she did and it was all legit, then I would react the same way.

magicarpet

(13,935 posts)
3. Toxic adolescent males,..
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 03:44 PM
Apr 2021

.... boy will be boys,... thems out of control male hormones.

Punish the girls for not being totally submissive.

After all that is God's Plan & God's Design.

It is in the buy-bull.

csziggy

(34,119 posts)
6. Washingotn Post article about the incident
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 04:32 PM
Apr 2021
Boys stormed a girls’ bathroom to ‘protest.’ A girl got expelled for fighting back, family says.
By Meagan Flynn, April 15, 2019 at 6:30 a.m. EDT

{SNIP}

It all went down at North Pole High School in North Pole, Alaska — a small, Christmas-loving city southeast of Fairbanks — on the morning of April 4. The snap at issue: a student transitioning from female to male posted a selfie from the boys’ bathroom.

Some boys at the high school who saw the selfie, however, were angry and decided they would walk into the girls’ bathroom to take their own Snapchat selfie “as a form of protest,” Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Superintendent Karen Gaborik told The Washington Post.

But they would not get far. The first boy to enter the girls’ room was met by a girl ― who kneed him in the groin. With that, the “protest” was over.

And now the girl has been expelled, her family told The Post.

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/15/boys-stormed-girls-bathroom-protest-girl-got-expelled-kneeing-one-them-crotch-family-says/


The girl who kneed to boy was not the transitioning student. It is not made clear if she felt threatened but I would suspect she was.

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
11. That girl deserves a medal
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 05:04 PM
Apr 2021

Every boy in that "protest" needed to be sus[ended and their parents should have been ordered to take parenting classes.

Her action was entirely appropriate, given the circumstances.

And yes, I'd be just as hard on girls who invaded a boys' bathroom over a trans girl using theirs.

And no, religion is no excuse for bullies.

Caliman73

(11,690 posts)
18. OR... her autonomic nervous system kicked in for the FIGHT response.
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 05:21 PM
Apr 2021

Humans are hard wired for Flight, Fight, or Freeze when they encounter danger. If she felt threatened she most certainly could have had a biological reaction to defend herself aggressively.

When you see prank videos where someone comes out in a scary mask, many people run away, some drop down to the floor (freeze), but you will also see some who slap the "monster" in the face. All three are typical responses. Flight and Fight eliminate the threat by either running away, or neutralizing the threat. Freeze is about overload of the limbic system.

dsc

(52,129 posts)
21. expulsion is overkill
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 05:50 PM
Apr 2021

I do understand suspending her, though he should also be suspended, but expulsion should be reserved for either students who repeatedly refuse to follow rules or present a risk of serious injury in one incident with that incident being unprovoked.

SleeplessinSoCal

(8,992 posts)
7. picking nits...
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 04:40 PM
Apr 2021

"..School in North Pole, Alaska — a small, Christmas-loving city southeast of Fairbanks..."

How can North Pole be southeast of anything?

Behind the Aegis

(53,823 posts)
8. I hope she sues!
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 04:42 PM
Apr 2021

I mean I hope she REALLY sues the fuck out of those assholes, their parents, and the school...hell, sue Alaska too!

BobTheSubgenius

(11,535 posts)
20. Perhaps she thought she was helping him with his own transition.
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 05:30 PM
Apr 2021

At the very least, he transitioned from standing to lying down.

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,433 posts)
22. So where is Catlyn Jenner..oh wait she's on team racist, bigotedrepublikkklan who hate ..wait for it
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 06:36 PM
Apr 2021

..trangender anyone albeit in military, in use of bathrooms, high school sports [not sure if bill affects lower gradeschool kids ..but it will if hate filled republikkklans can add] anyway --she's useless! And, she wants to be governor? What a fucking leader! She has a national platform so if she if wants to lead, then tell her buddies to shut that bill down.

Honestly, does anyone really think that the republikkklan party..the grand ole party of racists bigots, mysogynists, xenophobics living in CA will vote for her? That hate filled party?

No this isn't just about Catlyn --my rant is about leadership..it's about children, teens being treated with dignity and respect. Republikkklans, libertarians and yes some independents are evil, vile people who wish to harm the lgbtq, nonwhite, nonchristian people living in America.

Paz.

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