Transgender fight erupts – school defends naked students
Posted By Bob Unruh On 06/10/2016 @ 11:03 pm In Education,Faith,Front Page,Health,Politics,U.S. | No Comments
In a scenario that already is recurring, and likely will be repeated often in coming months – at least until the White House sees the last of Barack Obama – a school district has sued the federal government over his mandate that schools allow boys into girls’ lockers and showers, and girls into boys’.
“All individuals, including students, have a constitutional right to bodily privacy protected by the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution that forbids the government from placing them in situations where they will expose their unclothed or partially clothed bodies to people of the opposite sex,” the lawsuit states.
It was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Highland Local School District in Ohio’s Morrow, Knox and Delaware counties.
There, officials decided to provide private facilities to a boy who says he’s a girl, rather than letting him use the girls’ facilities.
That’s one of the things Obama purported to ban when his Education and Justice departments some weeks ago issued orders to all schools nationwide to cater to alternative sexual lifestyle claims.
Now, “The Department of Education has threatened the federal funding of Highland Local School District,” the organization’s announcement on Friday said.
See what American education has become, in “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.”
“Schools have a duty to protect the dignity, privacy, and safety of all students. This is precisely what Highland Local School District has done,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jim Campbell. “Despite that, the Department of Education is attempting to strong-arm Highland into complying with a lawless demand to open its single-sex overnight accommodations, locker rooms, showers, and restrooms to students of the opposite sex. The DOE is trying to redefine a federal law that only Congress can change.”
Despite a multitude of special accommodations, the guardian for the troubled, young student filed a complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights because the district will not provide the child with access to intimate facilities designated for the opposite sex.
The OCR immediately demanded the district violate the privacy of every other student who is not claiming to be the opposite sex.
“As a result, Highland faces an impossible choice: capitulate to defendants’ demands and sacrifice the dignity and privacy rights of their students; or protect those rights and watch defendants strip away more than a million dollars each year in federal funding devoted to special-education programs, lunches for underprivileged children, and educational advancement,” the complaint said.
“The court should resolve this dilemma, declare that defendants’ new Title IX rule is an unlawful executive-branch attempt to rewrite federal law, enjoin defendants from enforcing that rule, and protect Highland from having to cut programs that serve underprivileged children and students struggling to learn.”
The ADF said the Obama administration simply doesn’t understand the law, making decisions on “its inaccurate interpretation of Title IX, a 1972 federal law that prohibits schools from discriminating ‘on the basis of sex.'”
Regulations specifically allow for “separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex.”
In fact, the lawsuit quotes one of the furthest left justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Ginsburg, who wrote as a law professor that separate “places to disrobe, sleep, perform personal bodily functions are permitted, in some situations required, by regard for individual privacy.”
The ADF previously filed lawsuits on behalf of districts in Illinois and North Carolina over similar issues.
In Texas, school officials have ordered schools to ignore Obama’s orders.
The dispute is expected to work its way quickly to the U.S. Supreme Court, because some of the cases were already in the system before Obama’s orders.
The Ohio attorney general warned the Obama administration his rules and edicts are not the law, and he, too, will fight their enforcement.
See what American education has become, in “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.”
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