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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
No, it's like saying "we are having cheeseburgers for lunch. Anyone is welcome to have one. If you would prefer not to eat or see cheeseburgers, you can choose a different lunch you feel comfortable with. The other food choices are down the hall, please pick whichever you like and then return to eat with the rest of us."[/quote]

Technically the only choice for the second student is the alternate bathroom, which is essence the same discrimination the trans gender kids was facing.  Again, the non-discrimination policy is meant to protect all of them.

The point is, it does not have to be this "win-lose" situation between gender nonconforming and the other kids.  There are options the SB could have considered, if they took public input, to meet the needs of both gender nonconforming students, and the other kids.

- They could reconfigure bathroom stalls with floor to ceiling dividers and doors without cracks.  
- They could take 1/2 the school bathrooms and make them strictly sex segregated, and the other half gender inclusive.   
- They could create curtained dividers in locker rooms for those with sex segregation needs, and those without.  
- They could time shift the locker room, so those with modesty needs have a private time, and another shift where the rest of the students can change.  
- They could provide changing stalls and private individual showers in locker rooms
- They could use IOC Olympic rules for transgender athletes which creates a fair level playing field.  
- They could do nothing and make all these spaces strictly sex segregated

But the SB chose to play deaf, again, and forces the transgender kids and other kids with cultural mandates to fight for their own rights, where there could be a win-win solution for this dilemma to begin with![/quote]

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