Through much of the several decades I lived in the Denver metro area, there were a few assumptions one could make about the politics of the place. Denver was Democratic, both city and county. Arapahoe County was a Republican bastion (it's not anymore.) Adams County was sort of muddled, as was Jefferson County, to the west. That, again, no longer holds; Colorado has gone mostly over to being a blue state, including what locals call JeffCo.
Some JeffCo residents are finding life in increasingly blue Colorado difficult. Two of these residents are Joe and Serena Wailes, whose 11-year-old daughter went on an overnight school trip. The parents were assured that boys and girls would not only be in separate rooms but even on separate floors of the hotel they were staying in. That wasn't true; the Wailes' daughter was assigned not only to share a room but to actually share a bed with a "transgender" student.
A boy. Now, Mr. and Mrs. Wailes, along with three other families, are suing the Jefferson County Public Schools, and more power to them.
Several Colorado parents are suing their local school district after an overnight school trip allegedly tried to place a transgender-identifying male student in a hotel room — and ultimately the same bed — with an 11-year-old girl.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative legal organization that advocates for religious liberty, filed its opening brief Wednesday in "Wailes v. Jefferson County Public Schools" with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on behalf of four families.
The lawsuit alleges that the district, located near Denver, allows biologically male students to share overnight accommodations with girls based solely on gender identity without notifying parents or seeking their consent.
According to the complaint, the district’s policies violate parents’ fundamental right to make decisions about the upbringing and education of their children and places students in uncomfortable or potentially unsafe situations.
First of all, can we dispense with the "biologically male" horse squeeze? Male and female, boy and girl, are matters of biology. Stating someone is "biologically male" is a redundancy. The student in question is male. He has no business being put in a room with a girl, much less in a bed with her. And an 11-year-old, to boot.
I have a granddaughter, a year younger than this. If this happened to her, I'd be spitting nails. So would her grandmother (you really do not want to see my wife when she's angry), and our granddaughter's parents.
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The room assignment came despite assurances from district officials that boys and girls would be placed on different hotel floors, the lawsuit said.
Jefferson County Public Schools’ policy, however, reportedly states that students may be assigned overnight accommodations based on gender identity.
The first layer of this stinker is that the Jefferson County Public Schools should be making this decision based on biology, not fuzzy-headed woke notions of "gender identity." This stupid practice could easily have led to something very, very bad.
The second layer of this stinker is that an 11-year-old - I'm going to presume the boy in question is around the same age - is not capable of deciding he is "transgender." While we can't know the particulars, it's usually a safe bet that anyone presenting a "transgender child" is like someone claiming to have a "vegan cat." The first thing you can presume is that it's not the decision of a child or a cat to identify as anything of the sort. This boy can identify as an egg salad sandwich for all it pleases his parents, but he should never have been put in a room overnight with a girl, much less in her bed.
This issue seems wont to pile outrage upon outrage. But this one, involving an innocent child still looking forward to middle school, this really takes the cake.
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