Colorado parents of transgender 1st-grader file complaint over restroom ban

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The fact that it's a SCHOOL MATTER and not a "public matter".

"The district firmly believes it has acted reasonably and fairly with respect to this issue," it said. "However [it] believes the appropriate and proper forum for discussing the issues identified in the charge is through the Division of Civil Rights process."

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/colorado-tr...d=18607443

When it comes to a 6 year old we are not talking about his sexual desires. We are talking about how he likes to dress up and play, and his parents are pushing a fantasy agenda "Pssst, don't call him a him". The bathroom is being used because it is the only point they can push because the school is living in a reality they don't want to share. They can't sue because the teacher refuses to use the feminin pronoun.

This really is not about the kid at all. He is their plaything. A 6 year old who has no sexual fetish, but just likes dolls and dressup.

Just because his parents are living on the planet "woo-woo" doesn't meant that the rest of the world has to go with it.

Please see my above post, this is totally about the kid.

The Mathis' have a set of triplets and two other children, Dakota, 8, and Auri, 2. The father, Jeremy Mathis, 31, is a former Marine who was honorably discharged with injuries. Kathryn Mathis, 27, is a certified nurse assistant and takes care of Coy's triplet, Lily who has been severely disabled since a viral infection after birth. She must be fed through an IV and is quadriplegic. "When she was able to be a girl," said Kathryn Mathis, "she blossomed."

Coy started kindergarten as a boy but soon became unhappy when classmates treated her like a boy. Being made to stand in the boys' line made her cry. Doctors diagnosed her with gender-identity disorder. After a few months in kindergarten, Coy's parents consulted with therapists and began to help her make the social transition from boy to girl.
"When the transition happened, some kids asked what happened, that Coy was a boy and is now a girl," said Kathryn Mathis. "The teacher said, 'Coy is a girl, and that's it.' Kids at that age are very accepting."

In December, officials in Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 ruled Coy would have to use the boys' bathroom at Eagleside Elementary, or the staff or health-room restrooms. Her parents on Feb. 15 filed a complaint with the state Civil Rights Division.

In fact - when you send your child to a school, you are agreeing to abide by their rules.

And when a school opens under federal or state institution guidelines (and receive funding from those sources), if those state and/or federal guidelines change to accomodate a policy: they're expected to uphold said policy. Colorado policy seems to have revised it's definition of sexual orientation to include transgender status.

Colorado Revised Statute § 24-34-401
Definitions: (7.5) “Sexual orientation” means a person’s orientation toward heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, or transgender status
Statute breakdown by state

Schools have enough things to worry about without having renegade parents who are unhappy with the school rules that they agreed to when they sent their children there.

I highly doubt a family with five children, one of which is quadrapalegic (I've taken care of such a patient), are purposefully trying to be renegades. Seems more to me that they are trying to represent a minority population and it's social rights.

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The Division of Civil Rights does not have statutory power to act upon its own initiative to eliminate discriminatory behavior.
• Plaintiffs must first exhaust administrative remedies before they are permitted to file a complaint
in civil court.
• Litigants are precluded from receiving compensatory damages (damages recovered in payment
for economic loss or injury).
• Litigants are precluded from receiving punitive damages.
• Litigants are not allowed to recuperate attorney fees from the party at fault

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Pediatricians see growing number of cross-gender kids like Coy Mathis

"We're seeing it all across the state," said Dr. Daniel Reirden, a Children's Hospital Colorado physician who said his referrals "went up 200-fold" after he spoke on the issue of children and gender-identity disorder at a recent conference.
Described as "gender-variant," these children typically begin to demonstrate cross-gender behaviors between the ages of 2 and 4. They express a strong desire to live as the opposite gender — clothes, toys, pronouns.

Sometimes, it's typical preschool curiosity. But for other kids, it's the beginning of a life out of the ordinary, challenging societal expectations of what defines their gender.

Sex is assigned at birth according to biological status, but gender deals with the roles, behaviors, activities and expressions that society deems appropriate for males and females.

Children who are gender nonconforming are not considered to have mental disorders unless they experience great distress and discomfort at being unable to express who they believe they are.

As the general public becomes more aware of the issue through stories about kids such as Coy, the scientific community is also starting to expand its research into life cycles of transgender people to include children.
By granting equal treatment under the law, we can ease the pain of inter-generational trauma experienced by the transgender community which has been perpetuated for years.