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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: corbe on January 16, 2018, 06:16:07 pm
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School District Pays Teen $800,000 For Refusing To Let Her Sleep, Micturate With Boys
A Wisconsin school district will pay a transgender student $800,000 to settle a lawsuit she filed in a successful attempt to share bathrooms and overnight sleeping quarters with male high school students.
By Joy Pullmann
January 16, 2018
A Wisconsin school district will pay a transgender student $800,000 to settle a lawsuit she filed in a successful attempt to share bathrooms and overnight sleeping quarters with male high school students. Ash Whitaker’s attorneys will get $650,000 of that amount, and she gets the rest. The money will be paid out by the district’s insurance company, after using taxpayer dollars for their $25,000 deductible.
Before the settlement, the case had been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Whitaker’s favor. The court agreed that Kenosha Unified School District “illegally singled Whitaker out for discrimination because he [sic] is transgender.†Whitaker also demanded to be allowed to run for prom king, and won that fight last year as well.
“[Whitaker’s] claimed fees were $1.7 million, so we estimated if we went up to the Supreme Court, and/or back down to trial court to try the case and go through anything, that their fees would be somewhere between $4 million and $5 million,†Kenosha’s attorney, Ron Stadler, told media. “So, it becomes a real economic decision in terms of balancing risks and the downside of being given an adverse decision.â€
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http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/16/school-district-pays-teen-800000-refusing-let-sleep-micturate-boys/ (http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/16/school-district-pays-teen-800000-refusing-let-sleep-micturate-boys/)
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Sounds like the only real winner is the lawyer.
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Sounds like the only real winner is the lawyer.
:rolling:
Thank you captain obvious!
"Ash Whitaker’s attorneys will get $650,000."
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I learnt a new word today.
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I learnt a new word today.
That is because you never Micturated With Boys before.
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I learnt a new word today.
LOL, I only knew it from Vogon Poetry....
Thy micturations are to me. As plurdled gabbleblotchits. On a lurgid bee.
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That is because you never Micturated With Boys before.
Is that like "Slaking"?
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Is that like "Slaking"?
Better ask Cyber. And have him use it in a sentence.
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That is because you never Micturated With Boys before.
Like heck I haven't...but I was a boy then.
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LOL, I only knew it from Vogon Poetry....
Thy micturations are to me. As plurdled gabbleblotchits. On a lurgid bee.
"I rather liked it!"
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This situation is exactly like the one I posed to the BSA when they announced their policy change re: "transgenders".
Since they wouldn't answer what we were supposed to do with biological females in a male environment, especially tents and showers, I quit.
Wasn't going to open myself up to a lawsuit about a girl being molested in a tent because we "couldn't make special accommodations" or one assaulted in a shower.
Don't know nor care what their policy is now...
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On the positive side, that’s the first time a TBR headline made me learn a new word.
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On the positive side, that’s the first time a TBR headline made me learn a new word.
Me too, but it's an incomplete description of what people do in bathrooms. In striving to get attention with his $20 word, the headline writer sacrificed accuracy. :shrug:
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I wish my dog wouldn't micturate on the rug.
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I wish my dog wouldn't micturate on the rug.
I wish mine wouldn't micturate when he becomes overly excited.