Gender Identity Confusion Activism Tying Up Courts

Gay Teens Are Using the System
Students fight personal cases of discrimination through the courts and political activism.
By Seema Mehta - Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 12, 2006

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>>Gay high school students across California are increasingly using the courts and political activism to fight individual cases of discrimination and to promote tolerance.<<

Using the courts to promote tolerance? So, you are promoting "tolerance" by force? How tolerant of you.

>>"It's a reflection of the students' desire to not just not be beat up, but to actually have full equality," said Carolyn Laub, executive director of the Gay Straight Alliance Network in San Francisco. "They want to be treated just the same" as their straight classmates.<<

Okay, well, as I recall, sex isn't an official topic in high school classrooms, except in Biology and Health. But in Biology, the subject is reproduction, which doesn't happen in relationships lacking one of the sexes. In Health, it was about STDs... which are much easier to spread with certain practices than others.

>>Bakersfield students sued their district after a principal barred the school newspaper from printing articles about homosexuality that identified gay students by name Â? even with their parents' permission.<<

I've met people who would have identified as homosexuals in high school but no longer do so. What if they had an article from their high school days there on the Internet for all to see for the rest of their lives?

>>And hundreds of gay, lesbian and transgender youths converged Monday on Sacramento to champion proposed legislation that would allow the state to withhold funds from districts that fail to abide by a California law that protects gay students from discrimination.<<

"Transgendered" means that they are pretending to be the other sex... sometimes, it means dressing inappropriately. Sometimes it means having their genitals destroyed through surgery. Either way, I don't see why they should be lumped with people who are not confused about their sex but are attracted to people of the same sex.

>>Some contend the students are being used as pawns by adult gay activists and argue that school is no place for such volatile issues.

"They are being manipulated by the adults to push the gay agenda," said Richard Ackerman, president of the Pro-Family Law Center in Temecula. "My kids should be going [to school] to learn math, reading, writing. It shouldn't be an opportunity for someone else to Â? destroy the values I have worked so hard to instill in my children."
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"More and more students are realizing, 'Wow, when the principal censors my speech just because it has something to do with sex orientation, that's something that violates the law,' " said Christine Sun, an ACLU attorney representing students in the Garden Grove and Bakersfield cases.<<

Only because it is a public school paid for by tax money... which is itself unconstitutional.

>>Debates over whether to allow same-sex prom dates or after-school gay-straight alliance clubs are rare in California; by comparison, Utah legislators, to give one example, recently debated a bill that would allow educators to ban such clubs.<<

So I guess if a student wanted to join one of those alliance clubs and kept bringing up the data on the harmfucorrelationsns tied to these "alternative" lifestyles, they'd be welcomed with open arms? If so, I say flood the clubs with secureinoculateded straight kids who aren't afraid to counter the activispropagandada. If they can save one student from health problems, psychological problems, or domestic violence, then it would be worth it.

>>"Before, it was more that 'I have an identity and I don't want to be harassed because of it,' " Savin-Williams said. "Now it's, 'This is who I am, these are my attractions, desires, arousals and love affairs, and I have a right to them.' That subtle shift is a very important one because it reflects a sense of empowerment."<<

How wonderful for kids.

>>Garden Grove senior Charlene Nguon, 17, is suing the school district for discrimination, arguing that she was punished for being affectionate with her girlfriend on campus while straight classmates exhibiting the same behavior went unchallenged.

Nguon is also accusing officials of outing her to her mother and forcing her to transfer to another school to separate her from her girlfriend.<<

So, you want to be able to kiss your girlfriend in public, but still not have your parents find out about it?!?

>>Alyssa Paris Smyth, 18, who graduated last June, was born a male but is in the process of becoming an anatomical female.<<

In other words, he's having his genitals surgically mutilated, he's dressing inappropriately, and he's being shot full of hormones. Hey, nobody would stop you from doing whatever you wanted to do with another willing guy, pal. No need for all of this.

>>"I've lived in Los Altos all my life, and my parents have lived here a very long time. It's my hometown," said Smyth, who began wearing makeup at 14, started taking hormones at 16 and is preparing to get breast implants this year. "My own City Council rejecting the proclamation felt like they were rejecting me."<<

You're basing an awful lot of your self-esteem on the approval of people you don't even know.

>>About 500 gay, lesbian and transgender youths and their straight allies gathered Monday in Sacramento to lobby for legislation that would force compliance with a 1999 law that offered protection to students who are gay or perceived to be gay.

In addition to requiring that sexual orientation and gender identity be included in a school's discrimination policy, the proposal would ensure that teachers and staff are trained to deal with harassment and require documentation of any complaints.<<

What about dealing with same-sex domestic/relationship violence? That's much more common than heterosexual violence combined with harassment, I'm thinking. How about training them to offer help to teens who want to change these strangfeelingsds they are having? How about training them to recognize substance abuse among such students, or when such students are being preyed upon by older people?

How about we stop having government schools, and we let people financially support and attend schools that will serve them better? That way, we can stop spending so much time and money and stop tying up the courts with these disputes.

And yes, I think a person who harms the person or property of another, except in self-defense, should be prosecuted... regardless of the motivation, so that does include prosecuting those who would harm these students.