The "ME!" generation on steroids - but on the individual level? Another LGBT mish-mash about to go badly - Granite Grok

The “ME!” generation on steroids – but on the individual level? Another LGBT mish-mash about to go badly

male gym shower roomYeah, I’m an old fogey, but this story out of California has trouble written all over it.  I look at this akin to the practice of “mainstreaming” of students except this is about sex instead of ability (or, really, what seemingly can be the ping-pong of gender identity today vs tomorrow vs yesterday – a la ABC’s Don Ennis) – everyone has to conform to a lowest common denominator (as it is clear that even the educationalists have to admit that while there may be value for some of the “delayed / handicapped / challenged / lower ability” students (ok, I’m tired of knowing what the PC word du jour is), it does hold back potentially high performing students, especially in districts that can’t afford gifted student tracks).  Or, some twerps (be they male or female) who are just going to be high school kids that want to push the boundaries and make the school administrators look stupid (reformatted, emphasis mine):

The Arcadia Unified School District in Southern California will now allow a female ninth grade student to use the boys’ bathroom after the Department of Justice launched a discrimination investigation based on a complaint.

Of COURSE it is Obama’s DOJ going after this – nothing says “fundamentally transforming” America by teaching our kids that sex means nothing (unless they are encouraging the verb sense of the word – at which case, have a condom or a pill, or even an abortion or a slot in the day care!  Teen moms – that’s the ticked to stimulating the economy!

…“Under the agreement, approved by the district’s school board unanimously last night, the school district will take a number of steps to ensure that the student, whose gender identity is male and who has consistently and uniformly presented as a boy at school and in all other aspects of his life for several years, will be treated like other male students while attending school in the district,” the DOJ announcement stated….

…“The complaint alleged that the district had prohibited the student from accessing facilities consistent with his male gender identity, including restrooms and locker rooms at school, as well as sex-specific overnight accommodations at a school-sponsored trip, because he is transgender,” the announcement stated

I bet you know where I am going with this.  I will, with one stipulation – there is nothing in the post that stipulates that reassignment surgery has been done.

From what I remember from both Jr. High and High School, the boys gym had open room showers – 4 walls with shower heads like that above.  It was bad enough for those of us that had never experienced that before, especially with guys at different stages of development. Now a guy comes in with the wrong equipment and my admonishments to my sons on decorum when around the other sex goes swirling down the drain.  Sure, that transgender’s parents are doing what they think is right, but in terms of MY boys, I’m looking at this from the aspect of the Tyranny of the Minority.  Why do MY sons have to be at the tip of the spear of this social experiment?

Now, like I said, I’m an old fogey with traditional values – don’t mix the sexes like this in the nude!  Why do my family’s values have to take a back seat to what Obama’s DOJ enforced morality?  And make no mistake, this also overrules my religious teachings and beliefs as well – on the alter of Progressivism’s new sexual credo – and like with all things Progressive, you and me WILL participate the way they want us to.  But I digress because here comes the possible disaster part:

  • Amend its policies and procedures to reflect that gender-based discrimination, including discrimination based on a student’s gender identity, transgender status, and nonconformity with gender stereotypes, is a form of discrimination based on sex.
  • Train administrators and faculty on preventing gender-based discrimination and creating a nondiscriminatory school environment for transgender students.

Bear with me for a moment – my head hurts in trying to get this next bit’s terminology straight (yes, another facet of Progressivism forcing us from traditional Christian values to a secular one where morality is what those in charge say it is – redefining our language right from underneath us); so now the school has to let the gender selected guy with what is still a female body into the boys shower with a bunch of flip-that-switch- horny guys whose own bodies are starting to fill with their own hormones.  This is a disaster in process – it is who guys are at that age and no pontification is going to change that. But wait, there’s more – the legal problems.

So, what will end up happening?  Some adult is going to have to monitor the students in the shower room.  REMEMBER, the DOJ has made it clear that “will be treated like other male students while attending school in the district” – which means if all the other guys are in the shower room, this transgender MUST be as well, otherwise, by definition, there is no equal treatment.  Frankly, I would not want MY sons in that situation (although, they might disagree with my feelings on this).  The DOJ made it clear that the “and locker rooms” was to be obeyed. So, some adult is going to have to monitor the students in the locker room, too.  The guys will “hear” the message but in growing up, how many teens did you know were straight laced in front of adults and then Mr. Hyde’s when they left?

So, what male adult is going to want to stand at the doorway of the shower room to watch this guy’s female equipment.  And then realize that if in a commercial aircraft sitting next to a minor female child, the airline and society is already going to judge him to be a perv?  And that he may be put at risk legally for just being there?  Oh, no, Skip, there’s no chance of THAT slippery slope!  Sorry, that guy is already toast just waiting to be buttered – just look at the Christians that are being sued simply because they do not wish to participate in a gay marriage (the bakery, the religious camp, and this latest one).  I was used to the gym teacher or the coach coming out of their office once in a while – and then go back in, leaving “the boys” to themselves.  And yes, I both saw and was the target of hazing – that’s just what goes on.  Not fun when you’re a freshman and the others were seniors who were 220 lb linemen on the championship football team that could press you to the ceiling one handed.

OK, now flip it; would I want to be a freshman in that shower room or in the locker room and the “monitor” was a female adult?   No, not at all for all the reasons  you can think of.  And in the parental mode, I’d be filing a lawsuit plenty quick.  So, again, what female adult would want to put themselves in that position.

Look folks, I take a dim view of this whole thing for the above reasons and more (including either building new facilities or doing a retro of existing ones.  I also go back to my sophomore year in high school.  Before school started we all used to watch Captain Kangaroo, Bozo the Clown,  and Major Mudd tv shows in the am (yes, the whole school was wired for cable from the in-house TV studio) – shows that were meant little kids with cartoons, skits and games targeting 5-7 year olds.  Until one day, a bunch of the seniors got all the tickets to the Major Mudd show.  Nothing says “not appropriate” like a “blow the ping-pong ball” game that taxes a 5 year old’s lungs and a senior sends it off the set.

Just wait until a group of smart-alecks decided they are now female and try out for the girls volleyball team and the school can’t do a thing about it.  I’m betting that there will be a whole lot of inappropriate when the male adults are brought into the girls locker rooms.

Or will they?

Policies like this, that are instituted to change Society’s norms and morality, will not end well.  But as Glen Reynolds from Instapundit is categorizing the slow motion K-12 implosion, this will lead to more and more parents moving their kids to either private schools,  charter schools, or home schooling.  And at that point, this may solve this situation but in ways that our Overlords cannot forsee.

>