I just wanted to share this piece of good news:
The Colorado Civil Rights Division ruled Monday that a 6-year-old transgender girl, Coy Mathis, must be permitted to use the girls’ bathroom in her school.
In its 16-page decision on the matter, Civil Rights Division director Steven Chavez wrote that the school, in its separating out of Mathis, “demonstrates a lack of understanding of the complexity of transgender issues” and “creates a barrier where none should exist.” Further, it stated, “Telling [Mathis] that she must disregard her identity while performing one of the most essential human functions constitutes severe and pervasive treatment, and creates an environment that is objectively and subjectively hostile, intimidating or offensive.”
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This is the first of it's kind ruling in the country regarding the rights of transgender students. No court, no tribunal has ever said what the Colorado Division of Civil Rights has said today which is that trangendered students must be treated equally. They specifically referenced the outmoded concept of separate but equal and told us that separate but equal is very rarely equal and it is certainly not equal in Coy's case.
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