Like most fresh soil in the realm of civil rights, this here is wobbly ground. A transgender student down at Miami University has filed a discrimination complaint against the school. The filing basically tosses the administration out into the hot lights and forces them to make a decision — one that, unfortunately for Miami, is probably going to piss off some camp regardless of how they go.
Student Kaeden Kass wants to be a RA in a male dormitory, according to Newsnet5. No biggie — except Kass was born a female and now self-identifies as a male. Kaeden was assigned a female dorm, so he decided to file the civil rights suit charging housing discrimination.
The student says the school indicated they were just going by what was on Kass’ legal record (female), not with the chosen label herself (male). The report points out the school does offer gender neutral housing, which are usually delicate arrangements schools set up in order to keep at bay any actual confrontations over transgender student life. Kass is obviously rocking that balance — as is his right.
This article appears in Mar 21-27, 2012.
WTH? He’s a HE. If the driver’s license lists him as male then that’s how it is.
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Do he have a crank? Do it get hard? If not, then she gotta live with the girls. Is it Miami of Ohio or the Fla one?
@Kenny Jaeger So if someone has ED they get to sleep with the girls??
Good question Kage Neko..I did not think it through that far..I guess I could have left it ‘do he have a crank…well wait a minute though…What if he had it shot off or something in a war? Nothing is ever easy when it comes to 2012.
If she has female sex organs , she is a female.
Mr. Swenson, I’ve read and reread the Constitution dozens and dozens times. I missed the part where the transgendered have separate, or specifically mentioned, civil rights. Where might that be? Or do want to admit, you just make crap up and hope it sticks? Tell me, what journalism school teaches the “make crap up technique”? Please enlighten us all to how, “the facts don’t matter but my bs rhetoric is more important”. The sad thing about is, you’ll do it again, and more importantly, you haven’t a wit of shame.
joe18750..Why in God’s name would the constitution enter into a plain and simple silly story about a kid who may or may not have a crank?
So if I want to live in a dorm full of college aged girls all I have to say is that I now feel that I am a female or transgendered and I have rights. Wow I never thought it was that easy. If you were born with female genitalia then you are a female and vice versa. To say that you “feel” that you were meant to be the other just doesn’t cut it, take action to change it.
what a idiot fat slob likke chaz bono
@Kenny Jaeger…………..You make me wonder about your reading comprehension. Did you read the first line of Mr. Swenson’s piece? There is only one place you are allotted civil rights KJ. That’s the Constitution. Good grief, your knowledge of civics is deplorable.
Just becuase her driver license says this woman is a man doesn’t make it true. Nature decided she was a woman at the moment of conception. No matter how much surgery or hormones she takes she is a still a woman. She needs serious mental health care not society promoting her mental illness.
His momma named him Clay, I’m gonna call him Clay!
Here’s the part that I don’t get. If some guy believes that he’s Neopolean Bonapart, none of the other people around him are required by law to pander to his delusions. He may believe himself to be a squirrel or the Queen of Sheeba, and I still don’t have to take him seriously. So what kind of stupid logic requires that I accept a guy with a erect penis in the women’s showers??? I am seriously sick to death of this crap.
These dudes are all over the lesbian community, they LOVE women-only spaces because it makes them feel validated. Since when did any protected class need OTHER people to say, “yes you look like a Black person to me” in order to feel good about themselves??? The whole thing is messed up…
No, these things aren’t decided at the moment of conception. One can be genetically male, but have androgen insensitivity and fail to develop male genitalia and appear to be female. One can be genetically female and have the metabolic disorder CAH, which can cause masculization of the fetus. Often in the past, a child would be born with ambiguous genitals and be surgically assigned female gender, despite their genetic gender. Despite efforts to raise them as girls, they would often still self identify as boys.
It is not simple and a very complex and nuanced area.
As a transgendered woman(biologically male) myself I can definitely identify with Kaeden. There is always a bad feeling when someone forces your birth sex on you. Looking at these comments I am appalled with the anti-transgender mentality that still exists. Being transgender is not a mental illness, or an attempt to pick up lesbians, or a way to deny homosexuality by convincing yourself that you are the opposite gender.
imagine that tomorrow, you woke up as the opposite sex. Would you be able to go from a big burly biker to a reserved house-wife easily? Would you simply change your entire personality and how you feel cause you are in the wrong body? No! You can’t change who you are on the inside and you probably don’t even want to. Same goes for transgendered people except they started in the wrong body.
Whether you know it or not, a lot of you are saying very hurtful things about people just like you. These aren’t aliens or monsters. Transgendered people are people! And as people they deserve some respect and not this ridicule.