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Discussion in 'Homeschooling in the News' started by Actressdancer, Aug 20, 2012.

  1. Actressdancer

    Actressdancer New Member

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    Nothing to say to this. I'm afraid to offend. just....wow.
     
  4. JosieB

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    Well I don't care who I offend if I know I'm right. LOL

    And I certainly wouldn't want a little BOY in the bathroom with my young daughter no matter what HE wears or what label HE or HIS parents or the LGBT community slap on HIM.

    Should the other little boy have been bullying him, no. But if your DNA says you're a boy, you need to stay out the little girl's bathroom.
     
  5. 2littleboys

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    Yes, I started to reply last night, but I wasn't sure how to do it without offending. I wouldn't want a girl in my sons' bathroom just because she was feeling manly, and I wouldn't allow my boys in a girls' restroom just because they felt womanly. The Bible is very clear that men should dress and behave like men, and women should dress and behave like women, and that men & women should teach their children from birth to adulthood the ways of the Lord. This is just a case of parents not teaching their children about sexuality and bullying.

    Is any of this the fault of the children? Absolutely not. They're not old enough to understand the implications of what's happening around them. They're being used as their parents' pawns. I let my sons play with dolls, but I expect them to be fathers one day. There's nothing wrong with that. I do NOT let them dress up as if they were dolls, though, and I don't let them bully other children because those children are different from them, no matter what the difference. If they have a problem with someone, they should confront that person in a loving way to discuss it.
     
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    You said it so much more eloquently than I did! LOL I don't think I should post at 4 AM much LOL
     
  7. leissa

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    Ok, you guys did that much better than I would have. I just wanted to say that when I was little, I wanted to be a bird. Seriously, I wanted to be a bird. So should my parents have offered to let me have surgery to alter my arms so I could fly? or add feathers? Since when do we let young children decide their futures? How does a child get the idea that they can be transgender in THE 5TH GRADE!? I agree that the bullying was wrong. Bullying is always wrong. But why in the world does the school have to bow to the whims of a child? It violates his human rights? Seriously? One could argue that it's not his fault he was born in the wrong body, and that it's not fair for him to have to live with it, so he has a right to his own transgender restroom. Well, it's not right that I'm only 4'11". I should have been about 5'7". I've always felt like I should ahve been taller. So I'm suing the grocery stores for even having top shelves that high. It violates my human rights to have to ask for assistance. And don't even get me started on the short jokes I have endured my entire life. I've been traumatized and ridiculed. The bank tellers counters are too high, the seat in my car was not designed for short people, and clothes never fit me right. who should I sue first? (sarcasm-heavy, I'm really cool with being short)
     
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    Well, that was disturbing. I'd definitely be pulling my kids out of that school system.
     
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    To be fair, it's not the school in the wrong on this one. Which is actually more disturbing to me. One lone school doing something stupid is just, well, one lone school doing something stupid. But when a court orders them to do something stupid? That spreads.
     
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    This made me giggle. It reminded me of my son wanting to be a truck when he was little. Not a truck driver but a truck. Always chuckle when I think of that. With the cost of gas I am sooo glad he is a human boy. Although, that could be just a expensive to fill.;)
     
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    To me, it should be a matter of plumbing....if you have female anatomy, use the ladies' room and vice versa. If you dress like a lady, it doesn't make you a woman.

    Did anyone else catch that the child is heterosexual? I especially don't think it is appropriate for him to use the girls' bathroom if he is attracted to girls.
     
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    I have to giggle because your post made me think of 2 things...

    One, Jenny's prayer in Forest Gump "Please make me a bird so I can fly far, far away" It made me smile :)

    and these guys
    lizardman
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE9FRxoC7zc

    and cat man
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ7zyNnEeyM&feature=related
     
  13. Jackie

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    Did anyone else notice that this "biological" male child is refered to as SHE?
     
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    Yes, because it's politically correct to call a transgender person by the sex they feel they are.

    Yet if I wanted everyone to call me 'her royal highness' because I felt like a princess I'd be called crazy... :roll:
     
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    LOL!!! Good point, Josie!
     
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    No... a heterosexual transgender is attracted to the "same physical sex." He is considered a SHE and hetero girls are attracted to boys. You have to remember that "transgender" sort of switches the meaning of homo/heterosexual.
     
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    My son says there is a transgender student in his high school. The student is male but acts female and uses the girl's restroom. I can't wait until he graduates (this year!) and I hope I never have to send my younger kids to school.
     
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    I thought of that for a second after I posted, but was still so confused that I figured they would at least use the scientific terminology. Guess not.
     
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    I'm an occasional browser, but I won't be returning after reading these replies.

    You are the people who give homeschooling a bad name.

    :eek:
     
  20. seekingmyLord

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    Katienk, when people voice their opinions on any subject, which we have the right to do in this country, it is always going to go against someone else's opinion who also has that same right. Homeschooling parents by nature are strong individualists usually with well-defined opinions, but also with huge hearts.

    This said, the most intolerant people I have ever met are the ones who tell everyone else how tolerant others should be. Are you intolerant to people who do not share your beliefs and values? Then how can you expect anything different from any other person?
     
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    This entire transgender concept being accommodated by law in public schools is rather disconcerting on so many levels for me. My head is just swimming with the confusion all this creates--and I am thinking of locker rooms and showers in the middle and high schools. I suppose that in the not too distant future it will be politically correct for schools to just have unisex bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers or else each school will have to have extra bathrooms and locker rooms for transgender individuals? Then there are the homosexuals who are in lockers rooms with the same sex to which they are attracted so it seems that unisex locker rooms are going to be the most practical solution...eventually.

    How can any public school possibly accommodate every individual's choices otherwise?
     

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