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News: Transgendered first grader banned from using girls restroom
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Transgendered first grader banned from using girls restroom
Full article here:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/27/us/col...ool/index.html
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(CNN) -- A transgender rights group announced Wednesday that it has filed a discrimination complaint in Colorado on behalf of a first-grader who was born a boy but identifies as a girl.
The filing stems from a decision announced last December by officials at Fountain-Fort Carson School District that Coy Mathis could no longer use the girls' bathroom at Eagleside Elementary.
Mother Kathryn Mathis said she and her husband were shocked.
"We were very confused because everything was going so well, and they had been so accepting, and all of a sudden it changed and it was very confusing and very upsetting because we knew that, by doing that, she was going to go back to being unhappy," she told CNN. "It was going to set her up for a lot of bad things."
Coy was born with male sex organs but has identified as female since she could express herself, her mother said. The child had attended classes during her kindergarten year with no problems and no complaints from anyone at the school, Mathis told reporters at the Colorado Capitol in Denver, where she was flanked by her husband, Jeremy, and four other children.
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Wearing a girl's winter coat, Coy stood behind her mother.
Afraid bullies would make fun of her daughter, Kathryn Mathis said she pulled Coy out of school during winter break.
"In the end, we just want what is the best for Coy," Mathis said about the complaint. "We want her to be able to go back to school and be treated equally without discrimination and harassment."
Attorney Michael Silverman of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, which is representing Coy, said the complaint -- which was filed with the Colorado Civil Rights Division -- is intended to have an impact beyond a single family or school.
"For many transgender people, discrimination is a daily part of life. Unfortunately for Coy, it has started very early," he said, adding that the complaint is a "test of Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Act."
"The world is going to be looking at the school," he said, which can "send a message to the world and teach tolerance, fair play and equal rights."
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Gender issues are the stupidest. Why can't she just use the bathroom she wants to use? There's no reason. It's the worst.
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Member Since: 12/16/2008
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Well, they were rude for doing so but I guess it was weird for the little girls to see her/him come into the bathroom, idk.
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Member Since: 11/27/2008
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First grade? Whoa, that's the earliest I've ever seen a kid identify as transgender.
Anyways, that was just stupid. Don't they have stalls in bathrooms? It's not like the other girls would see anything.
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Well there's nothing ya can do about it. I mean, even if he identifies himself as a girl, it's still a girls' restroom...
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Member Since: 8/29/2011
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Originally posted by eli's_rhythm
Gender issues are the stupidest. Why can't she just use the bathroom she wants to use? There's no reason. It's the worst.
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+1
Gender neutral bathrooms work too.
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Member Since: 8/29/2011
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Originally posted by brIt-()nstar
Well there's nothing ya can do about it. I mean, even if he identifies himself as a girl, it's still a girls' restroom...
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But she is a girl.
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Originally posted by Ramcoro
But she is a girl.
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Biologically, he is not.
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Member Since: 3/1/2012
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More importantly why the hell would you let a child change gender at such a young age? Surely he isn't capable of making such a massive decision at that age, I mean tomorrow he'll want to a fireman then a dog etc.
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Member Since: 3/31/2012
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Wait, so a first grader had their sex change? 
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Member Since: 9/24/2011
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WTF is his parents do i mean 1st grader,he still can't make up his mind..i blame his parents.....
the worst scenario is his parents treat him like a girl,cause they wants a girl child.....
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I don't think the kid had a surgery. 
Transgender and Transexual have different meanings.
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Member Since: 7/3/2011
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It' a first grader. make her use the damn boys restroom and stop spoiling the bitch. Who cares if it upsets her, SHE/HE'S IN FIRST GRADE. Ugh, parents make me mad.
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Originally posted by brIt-()nstar
Biologically, he is not.
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So when she starts taking hormones, and develops breasts, and eventually has gender reassignment surgery, what is she then? Still a boy?
Tsk, so narrow minded. 
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the parents are a mess for letting there child do this at that age you dont know **** about what u wanna be
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Member Since: 3/11/2012
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Guys, it's called gender confusion. This develops around their age or earlier. She didn't decide as a first grade to have a sex change, and if her parents didn't allow the process, she would undergo deep depression in the future.
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Originally posted by Nikko
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No. He acts like a girl so (assumedly) his parents have convinced him that he is a girl born in the wrong body. Which, erm, I guess isn't a big deal but I mean he IS very young.
I can't help but feel that his parents have played a big role in his transgender-ness. I just don't think that a child so young could understand the scope of thinking that he should have been born a girl.
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I didn't know you could realise that that early 
And people on here not knowing the difference between "transgender" and "transsexual" 
Anyway it's not a big deal tbh.
It's probably too much for the young girls and using the boys restroom won't kill him so
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If the kid identified as a girl since she could express herself who the hell are you guys to say she's wrong? 
If she goes to school as a girl why would it be "weird" for her to go into the girl's restrooms? I didn't realize trans people had big neon labels on their body.
Y'all are the pits sometimes.
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Originally posted by Rigalo
No. He acts like a girl so (assumedly) his parents have convinced him that he is a girl born in the wrong body. Which, erm, I guess isn't a big deal but I mean he IS very young.
I can't help but feel that his parents have played a big role in his transgender-ness. I just don't think that a child so young could understand the scope of thinking that he should have been born a girl.
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Because telling your kid "No you're wrong shut up and be a boy" would be the responsible parenting action to take.
They have 4 other kids.
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