The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to intervene in the debate over bathrooms for transgender students, rejecting an appeal from an Indiana public school district.
Federal appeals courts are divided over whether school policies enforcing restrictions on which bathrooms transgender students can use violate federal law or the Constitution.
In the case the court rejected without comment, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an order granting transgender boys access to the boys’ bathroom. The appeal came from the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis.
Hey! I appreciate your support, trans rights are human rights!
In the future, could you please use transgender instead of transexual? The latter is a really dated term and ties a gender and societal issue to sexuality. While they may be closely associated, they’re not the same thing and any little bit helps break that association.
I’ve proven I can’t remember this kind of stuff, but I’ll try.
That’s how it’s done, people.
Good on you for working on it though!
You can also edit your comments, it would be preferred if you would change it so that you aren’t using what many of us consider a slur.
Would it not be better to leave it as is to teach others? Censoring serves no purpose here and it would prevent people from learning
You can edit in a cross out with two tildas ~ surrounding the word and put the correct word next to it if that’s your style. But it’s still somewhat akin to using the n word for some of us.
It’s not our word for how we describe ourselves/ what we transition for, when we transition, and it can have nothing to do with sex, mostly, we can be any sexuality.
That old language centers everything on the fact that people see us as sexual fetishes and not people. Transition is about gender, of which sex sometimes is not even a part, asexuality exists too. Thus the word transgender
Not disagreeing about the use of the word, just erasing a teaching moment. Fair enough regarding the editing choice though
And yet it’s still the most upvoted comment, keeping a slur up that hurts many trans people, but sure the teaching moment is more important than being inaccurate and insulting, but keep patting yourself on the back.
It’s the most upvoted comment because many people don’t know it’s a slur. The only way that will change is with calm teaching moments like these.
It’s also upvoted because it is a slur and bad actors like to chip in their support knowing it’s a slur.
Alternatively you can collapse the comment and you no longer have to see it.
Seconded, transgender is more accurate and how we describe ourselves.
The one exception is older trans folk who use that label because it is the one that resonated with them when they were figuring themselves out. Despite the label’s history with transmedicalism some of the elders are not down to have their identities questioned by us younger folk and their experiences are valid.
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Yeah a transexual sounds more like someone who is sexually attracted to transgender people.
The actual word for that is Skoliosexual…
( weak and offkey GI Joe theme played on a kazoo as I melt back into the internet)
OkCupid has a definition that means someone who wants to align their gender to a biological sex through medical intervention.