Saturday, April 06, 2019

Too Bad District Officials Can't Be Sued As Individuals

This sex-is-not-gender thing has been taken so far to Crazytown that we get stories like this:
A federal court permitted a lawsuit to proceed against an Illinois school district that allows high school boys to use girls’ locker rooms, restrooms and showers in order to accommodate transgender students.

But girls who don’t want to be seen naked by boys got bad news: The judge ruled that they have no right to “visual bodily privacy” if the government says so...

U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso is letting Title IX and religious freedom claims go forward while throwing out other claims. Tom Petersen, director of community relations for the district, emphasized that “only three” claims are going forward.

“The District will continue to defend our practices that affirm and support the identity of all our students,” he wrote in an email to The College Fix...

They (the plaintiffs) also claimed the school district has “conveyed to students” they are “bigoted and intolerant” if they object to the school policy. Some have suffered “actual heckling” from other students, which dissuaded them from “asking to use a private locker room,” while the district has blocked some from using private facilities.

This “bigoted” allegation is why the plaintiffs’ First Amendment claim under the free exercise clause is also moving forward. Alonso called it the kind of “subtle departure” from “facially” neutral laws that the Supreme Court has frowned upon...

Perhaps most troubling for high school girls who are anxious about their developing bodies, the judge said they enjoy no right to not be seen naked by the opposite sex.
Who in their right mind thinks it's OK for boys to be in the girls' bathrooms or locker rooms at school, and vice versa?  Who thinks this is "reasonable"?

Sometimes lefties have such open minds that their brains fall out.

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