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srican69

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Mon Mar 18, 2013, 03:29 PM Mar 2013

where do you stand on this trans-gender kid? [View all]

Dispute on Transgender Rights Unfolds at a Colorado School

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/us/in-colorado-a-legal-dispute-over-transgender-rights.html?hp

“It became really clear that it wasn’t just about liking pink or feminine things,” said Kathryn Mathis, Coy’s mother, recounting how Coy had anxiety attacks when people treated her as a boy. “It was that she was trying so hard to show us that she was a girl.”

In December, however, when Coy, 6, was a few months into the first grade, the Mathises angrily pulled her out of school after being told that she could no longer use the girls’ bathroom but could instead use a gender-neutral restroom.

A letter from a lawyer for the Fountain-Fort Carson school district explained that “as Coy grows older and his male genitals develop along with the rest of his body, at least some parents and students are likely to become uncomfortable with his continued use of the girls’ restroom.”



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Kid should be allowed to use the girl's restroom.
7 (70%)
Kid should be allowed to use the girl's restroom only after the surgical removal of the penis and the construction of an artificial Vagina.
0 (0%)
Kid is a boy - he should use the boy's restroom.
2 (20%)
This issue is too complicated for you to wrap your head around.
1 (10%)
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