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Calif. districts grapple with transgender law


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By Alejandro Lazo, Wall Street Journal

SACRAMENTO — School districts in California are grappling with a newly enacted, first-of-its-kind law that spells out rights for those students who don’t identify as being the gender of their birth.

California law AB1266, the first such statewide legislation in the country, grants students who identify themselves as transgender the right to choose the sports teams and extracurricular activities—as well as the bathrooms and locker rooms—that correspond to their gender identities. Backers of the measure say transgender children have been subject to bullying in such settings and have thus taken to avoiding using the restroom or participating in athletics.

There are no firm estimates of how many such students might attend California schools, and no specific guidelines for determining if a youngster should be considered transgender.

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  1. suspicious mind says - Posted: January 25, 2014

    It is not that they don’t agree with their “birth gender”, but that they don’t agree with their DNA and therefore their XX or XY chromosomes that truly determined their biological sex.
    Talk about opening a kettle of fish. Another liberal feel good mess that is taking our culture further down that road to h….

  2. cosa pescado says - Posted: January 25, 2014

    “road to h….”

    Just say it. Hell.
    Road to hell.

    Why don’t you take your bible banging Angry Sky Man xenophobia on a long walk off of a short pier.
    Your book is made up. Your ‘god’ is ridiculous. If there is a god out there, it sure as hell isn’t as ignorant as yours is.

  3. Dogula says - Posted: January 25, 2014

    Wow? Is that the Fish, arguing AGAINST science??? I mean, other than his frenzy over somebody else’s suspected belief in God, we’re talking XX and XY and what is scientifically factual. And Fish protests?

  4. cosa pescado says - Posted: January 26, 2014

    How did I argue against science?
    Do both you know the difference between sex and gender?
    You are making things up again.