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Right-wingers outraged after school district suspends boys for bullying trans student
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In fairness to my past self, a locker room was a place to change my clothes and get out. I was uncomfortable being in there with anyone for any length of time.
I'm trying to take a view from the other boys, who see him as a girl. You can't reasonably expect people who've grown up in a society where they're is a binary assignment between boy and girl at birth to suddenly understand and accept a trans person, without some kind of education, coaching and adjustment period. From the other boys perspective, this student was a girl, and he just came into the locker room and started filming them. If I went into a women's locker room and started filming, I probably would get a police escort out of the building with some shiny new bracelets. There are two sides to this story. I'm not saying that the trans boy wasn't being harassed. I was saying that there is more going on here, because a couple of boys saying "I'm not comfortable with this girl in the locker room" wouldn't get them suspended for 10 days, the school district said the same thing in the article.
I was also uncomfortable being in there. And I agree with you that the article doesn't give us enough background of what was going on, because obviously there's a lot more to the story if the school board did find that these kids were bullying.
And I agree that filming wasn't appropriate, presumably there would have been a lot of boys in there that weren't bullies.
Anyway, I think there is a lot more to this story than what is in the article. So us from the outside, it's just conjecture. The scoreboard made a decision on what they thought was going to keep kids safe. And their decision was to suspend kids they perceived as being bullies.