The first paragraph in a news item from the online Minneapolis Star Tribune made me do a double-take, shake my head in disbelief, and then read the complete story.
Here is that paragraph: "A Colorado civil rights panel has ruled that a suburban Colorado Springs school district likely discriminated against a 6-year-old transgender girl when it prevented her from using the girls' bathroom at her elementary school."
Wait a minute. How in the world can a six-year-old child possibly know which sex he or she is? Biologically, if he has a functioning penis, he is a boy, and must use the Boys restroom. Also biologically, if she has a functioning vagina, she is a girl, and must use the Girls restroom. Otherwise, any and all of the other students in the school can use the restroom of their choice. If challenged, all any student has to do is declare himself or herself a member of the opposite sex no matter what is biologically indicated. If then not allowed to use the restroom of choice, this (in our litigious age) becomes a matter of discrimination.
That's how I see it.
LINK to story
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While walking on the sidewalk alongside Speedway Blvd. early Tuesday morning, I espied in the scrub, at the base of a tree, what appeared to be a plastic fork sticking in the earth.
Or a dining room.
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TRIVIA
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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HISTORICAL EVENT
With a string of pop hits in the mid-1960s that began with the career-defining "I Got You Babe" (1965), Sonny and Cher Bono established themselves as the most prominent and appealing married couple in the world of popular music. Sonny and Cher projected an image of marital harmony that a lot of people could relate to -- an image not so much of perfect bliss, but of a clearly imperfect yet happy mismatch.
Mr. and Mrs. Bono traded on that image professionally for a solid decade, even several years past the point that it was true. After 13 years together, Sonny and Cher were legally divorced on this day, June 26 in 1975.
Their daughter, Chastity Bono, changed her name to Chaz Bono and, using hormones and other pharmaceuticals, physically changed her gender from female to male.
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WORD FOR TODAY
transgender
adjective
appearing as, wishing to be considered as, or having undergone surgery to become a member of the opposite sex.
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By 1946, Parker had starred in Between Two Worlds, Hollywood Canteen, Pride of the Marines, Never Say Goodbye, and played Mildred in the remake of Of Human Bondage.
Parker's most famous screen role is probably that of Baroness Elsa Schraeder, the second female lead in the 1965 Oscar-winning global success The Sound Of Music
Christopher Eugene "Chris" O'Donnell
(born June 26, 1970)
(born June 26, 1970)
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Jennette Michelle Faye McCurdy
(born June 26, 1992)
(born June 26, 1992)
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Peter Lorre
(June 26 1904 - March 23, 1964)
(June 26 1904 - March 23, 1964)
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A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
--Chaz Bono
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