High School Students In Texas Stage A Massive Walkout After A Trans Girl Is Banned From Girls’ Locker Room
Discussions about gender identity and gender expression have always been full of controversy. These ongoing discussions shed some more light on the problem and give hope that some positive changes will be implemented in the future. At least it seems to be happening in Temple, Texas, where Temple High School students organized a huge walkout after one of the students there was banned from using the girls’ locker room because it’s for “actual girls” and not trans people.
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Students of Temple High School organized a peaceful protest after their transgender classmate wasn’t allowed to use the women’s locker room
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Kendall Tinoco is a 16-year-old Temple High School student who is a transgender woman. On September 22, she shared an Instagram post where she revealed that recently she was denied access to the girls’ locker room by one of her teachers because it’s for “actual girls.” At first, the young woman didn’t think much of it because she thought that the teacher was transphobic and continued using the girls’ locker room.
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Students expressed their support a week after Kendall shared the situation that happened to her with the locker room
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Kendall also added that she had been using women’s bathrooms since she was in 7th grade and even had a form that stated that no one has the right to tell the girl which bathroom or locker room she should choose. This all led up to the school administration, where they weren’t able to help Kendall much. The situation concluded with authorities saying that they would need to take this even further for her to be recognized as a female and allowed to use the women’s locker room.
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Soon the student’s post went viral and resulted in a peaceful protest organized by the students of Temple High School. On Wednesday, September 29, they walked out of their classrooms and filled the school’s corridors to express their support for their classmate and other transgender people. Soon the internet was full of videos and photos of students standing with LBGTQ+ flags, chanting “Trans lives matter.”
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Kendall Tinoco, who was banned from using a girls’ locker room, shared her horrible experience on Instagram
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Local news channels were able to receive comments from Kendall as well as from Christine Parks, who is a spokesperson for Temple Independent School District. The student expressed her joy to see “all the transgender, LGBTQ people come together and stand for one another.” The spokesperson revealed that to ensure the safety of the students and those who worked in school, they had to increase security. She also shared that the school’s administration had a meeting with Kendall and her parents to review the guidelines for transgender students.
The key points that had to be reviewed were: the student has to be identified by their legal surname, they have to dress according to the school’s dress code, and to ensure their privacy, a “gender-neutral” bathroom and changing room should be available for them.
People online expressed their support for young people who are not afraid to speak up about such issues as transphobia
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I have to humbly admit I cannot decide how I feel about this issues. I support the LGBTQ community but i legitimately can see both sides of the debate and there are some valid points. Part of me envisions locker rooms as a place where you can be comfortable around individuals with the same physical anatomy. Although to be fair the are still often very uncomfortable to teens of any sex/gender. But until we can clearing define and agree on the purpose of male/female separation in bathrooms and locker rooms in the first place i dont see a universal solution. Do we separate them for sexual attraction? For a sense of sameness? To avoid having your body viewed by someone who sees it as a sexual object? I think some of these debates stem from a changing world we are all trying to adapt to and not just a place of hate and discrimination.
I think that we could make it easier if they made stalls like in bathrooms. As a teenager I didnt want anybody girls included to see me naked.
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There needs to be spaces for trans people to change in private with dignity. But the girls locker room is not the place for that. Yes, women are allowed to have our own spaces--we fought for them over decades thanks to the feminist movement--the REAL feminist movement of the 60s and 70s, not the new "fun" lib-fem movement, which is seeking to actively dismantle women's sex-based rights and protections. Teenaged girls are well within their right to not want a person with a penis amongst them as they remove their clothing and shower, as are women in rape relief shelters, washrooms, and any other place where female bodies are vulnerable. It's interesting that it is always trans-identifed males who demand to use private spaces meant for women, to push in despite the very reasonable objections of women. I agree that trans women need better options than the ones they are given. The answer is not to bulldoze over women and our needs.
Don’t you think it’s more i’m uncomfortable for a person who would be outwardly perceived as a woman to be naked in a room with a bunch of boys? What about her safety and comfort?
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See the thing with transgender is it is subjective and not objective. So, any dude now that wants his way into the girl's bathroom can just say they are transgender.. I feel bad for true transgender but the risk is too high.
Sergio, this doesn't actually happen. No one is dressing as a woman just to go into a bathroom. Especially not in a high school. Trans women are women, and this girl is no exception.
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So I'm reading Daniel Demarest's comments and general nastiness and the thing that keeps coming to mind is Shakespeare's - Methinks thou dost protest too much. Daniel is always being the nastiest commenter when the subject of LBGTQ or Trans comes up, and methinks he dost protest too much.
How about...if you're dressed in appropriate attire for activity (i.e sneakers, etc), then you don't need to change to participate. I'm a teacher. I have many friends who are phys ed teachers. The amount of students who fail class simply because they do not change into "gym clothes" is absurd (school rules, not teacher rules). How much of this is because many children - regardless of gender - do not want to undress in front of their peers? And quite frankly, when you add cell phones into the mix, it gets frightening. Smart phones did not exist during my adolescence. I cannot imagine the fear some students have of being videoed/photographed and having it sent to all their classmates.
No, they’d rather invade women’s spaced and make women uncomfortable.
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surely i'm not the only one who hated gym class in high school. i don't want to get naked around a group of people no matter how well i know them.
same, especially not a boy with the potential to assault or rape me.
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It sounds like other girls weren't the ones with the issue, it was a random teacher. If this trans girl is living as a girl and presenting as a girl at school, then she should be using the girls rooms. If this is problematic for the administration, then they need to provide a third locker room, because you can't expect a girl, trans or cis, to share a locker room with teenage boys.
Kate Gonzalez needs to rethink her words or opinions. WTF does she think “100% female” means!
Ya'll this kind of stuff isn't just Texas: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/librarians-charged-for-stocking-books_n_61578e1de4b050254232eba7 I lived here up until last May, and know that I'm gone, it's going to s**t
You do realize that students will stage a walkout at the drop of a strand of dyed hair. I’m sure some supported this transgender, but the rest wanted out of class.
No one is going to pretend to be trans or throw on clothing of the opposite gender just to spy on you. That’s not a thing. We need to stop sexualizing gender issues.
second time in a week that a story of such bigotry has come out of texas. i am sure that this is not the only state that this is happening. with the younger people being so willing to support people it looks like we are going to have to wait for the older generation to die off to see that state make any progress.
I'm a part of the younger generation, and I wasn't brainwashed or anything by the oldies into disagreeing with the kind of stuff, but I found out about what is happening, read info and articles from a bunch of different sources, both in favour and against this ideology. I came to my own conclusions: a woman can't have a penis. end of story. it's pretty alarming how my fellow generation is so susceptible to this doctrine, it's like a cult.
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It's so much fun seeing the hard work of generations of women fighting for their rights to be recognized as 'equal' go down the drain as soon as a man in a skirt says so. We're now not entitled to penis-free bathrooms or changing rooms, we're now referred to as "people who bleed" instead of being "women", now transgender females are saying they're more beautiful than any naturally born woman can be, and abortion rights are being repealed. Shall I just pre-empt this by getting pregnant, get back in the kitchen barefoot making a misogynistic A-hole a sandwich? Don't worry, my safety means absolutely nothing when compared to your 'feels'. Hurrah for the end of women's rights.
The "people who bleed" js really repulsive. They have a good intention but saying this things just brings us back to the beginning. Cis women are not just their genitals; many do not bleed nor can have children and we are still women.
Load More Replies... also, to all the people saying "if a predator wants to commit a rape a single-sex changing room isn't going to stop him" - over 90% of sexual assaults, sexual harassment, and rapes occur in mixed-sex changing rooms, whilst less than 10% happen in single-sex areas. it's because a predator isn't going to gain much attention in a mixed-sex changing room, since it's considered normal, whilst if a man is spotted in the women's changing rooms alarm bells are gonna start ringing. mixed-sex places are like magnets for sex offenders since it's so easy and no-one's gonna notice. single-sex spaces are mandatory. and also, to the people saying that men who "identify as women" should be able to use women's spaces, just think about how easy it would be for a predator to infiltrate the women's changing rooms on the basis of his phony self-identification, and pedophiles and perverts are already taking these opportunities.
dress however you want. call yourself what you feel like. believe in what you wish. but infiltrate women's private spaces on the basis of your own delusion? not ok. the fact this man has been allowed to use the girl's changing rooms is pretty repulsive, it eliminates the women's opportunity to a male-free space without their consent. regardless of your beliefs, single-sex areas should be categorised on your biological sex, not some "gender" aspect that allows predatory men to invade women's bathrooms and changing rooms on the basis of their own self-identification. private spaces were created for people based on their sex, not their perception of themselves, that's why men's toilets have urinals. also, why would this man want to use the women's changing rooms anyway? I don't know if he's perverted and just wants to look at undressing women, or another reason, but it's awful to eliminate the rights of multiple women to provide for the needs of one man. this is just blatant misogyny.
As far as I'm aware, there are stalls in the bathroom. EVEN IF someone "fakes" being transgender ... wtf is supposed to happen? So who cares who goes where ... I'm just a little self conscious about peeing into the urinal when there is a woman present ... but if this woman was able to pee standing up, by all means ... let her.
So this trans guy can't change with a male dancer because it's just comfortable for him, but up yours to the people that are uncomfortable with him changing with their daughters? So really he thinks everyone should acquiesce to his disorder and he shouldn't take anyone else's discomfort into account??? How arrogant and selfish can a guy be?????
**Trans WOMAN. A trans "guy" would be a female transitioning to male. Clearly the girls whose comfort should be under consideration had absolutely no issue with her sharing their locker room. But sure, let's acquiesce to the adults' transphobia and make her life even harder, because you can't wrap your head around someone changing themselves to be who they were meant to be.
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Bro, literally, she just wants to be treated with the same amount of respect you want to
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Are you a rapist? Testosterone doesnt make you an animal withiut impulse control.
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I'm sure your daughter is more mature and open-minded than you are about the topic. If you think your child is in that much danger, why not pull her from school and home-school her? Then you won't have to worry about her and you're not interfering with someone else's rights to be who they are......
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I have to humbly admit I cannot decide how I feel about this issues. I support the LGBTQ community but i legitimately can see both sides of the debate and there are some valid points. Part of me envisions locker rooms as a place where you can be comfortable around individuals with the same physical anatomy. Although to be fair the are still often very uncomfortable to teens of any sex/gender. But until we can clearing define and agree on the purpose of male/female separation in bathrooms and locker rooms in the first place i dont see a universal solution. Do we separate them for sexual attraction? For a sense of sameness? To avoid having your body viewed by someone who sees it as a sexual object? I think some of these debates stem from a changing world we are all trying to adapt to and not just a place of hate and discrimination.
I think that we could make it easier if they made stalls like in bathrooms. As a teenager I didnt want anybody girls included to see me naked.
Load More Replies... There needs to be spaces for trans people to change in private with dignity. But the girls locker room is not the place for that. Yes, women are allowed to have our own spaces--we fought for them over decades thanks to the feminist movement--the REAL feminist movement of the 60s and 70s, not the new "fun" lib-fem movement, which is seeking to actively dismantle women's sex-based rights and protections. Teenaged girls are well within their right to not want a person with a penis amongst them as they remove their clothing and shower, as are women in rape relief shelters, washrooms, and any other place where female bodies are vulnerable. It's interesting that it is always trans-identifed males who demand to use private spaces meant for women, to push in despite the very reasonable objections of women. I agree that trans women need better options than the ones they are given. The answer is not to bulldoze over women and our needs.
Don’t you think it’s more i’m uncomfortable for a person who would be outwardly perceived as a woman to be naked in a room with a bunch of boys? What about her safety and comfort?
Load More Replies... See the thing with transgender is it is subjective and not objective. So, any dude now that wants his way into the girl's bathroom can just say they are transgender.. I feel bad for true transgender but the risk is too high.
Sergio, this doesn't actually happen. No one is dressing as a woman just to go into a bathroom. Especially not in a high school. Trans women are women, and this girl is no exception.
Load More Replies... So I'm reading Daniel Demarest's comments and general nastiness and the thing that keeps coming to mind is Shakespeare's - Methinks thou dost protest too much. Daniel is always being the nastiest commenter when the subject of LBGTQ or Trans comes up, and methinks he dost protest too much.
How about...if you're dressed in appropriate attire for activity (i.e sneakers, etc), then you don't need to change to participate. I'm a teacher. I have many friends who are phys ed teachers. The amount of students who fail class simply because they do not change into "gym clothes" is absurd (school rules, not teacher rules). How much of this is because many children - regardless of gender - do not want to undress in front of their peers? And quite frankly, when you add cell phones into the mix, it gets frightening. Smart phones did not exist during my adolescence. I cannot imagine the fear some students have of being videoed/photographed and having it sent to all their classmates.
No, they’d rather invade women’s spaced and make women uncomfortable.
Load More Replies... surely i'm not the only one who hated gym class in high school. i don't want to get naked around a group of people no matter how well i know them.
same, especially not a boy with the potential to assault or rape me.
Load More Replies... It sounds like other girls weren't the ones with the issue, it was a random teacher. If this trans girl is living as a girl and presenting as a girl at school, then she should be using the girls rooms. If this is problematic for the administration, then they need to provide a third locker room, because you can't expect a girl, trans or cis, to share a locker room with teenage boys.
Kate Gonzalez needs to rethink her words or opinions. WTF does she think “100% female” means!
Ya'll this kind of stuff isn't just Texas: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/librarians-charged-for-stocking-books_n_61578e1de4b050254232eba7 I lived here up until last May, and know that I'm gone, it's going to s**t
You do realize that students will stage a walkout at the drop of a strand of dyed hair. I’m sure some supported this transgender, but the rest wanted out of class.
No one is going to pretend to be trans or throw on clothing of the opposite gender just to spy on you. That’s not a thing. We need to stop sexualizing gender issues.
second time in a week that a story of such bigotry has come out of texas. i am sure that this is not the only state that this is happening. with the younger people being so willing to support people it looks like we are going to have to wait for the older generation to die off to see that state make any progress.
I'm a part of the younger generation, and I wasn't brainwashed or anything by the oldies into disagreeing with the kind of stuff, but I found out about what is happening, read info and articles from a bunch of different sources, both in favour and against this ideology. I came to my own conclusions: a woman can't have a penis. end of story. it's pretty alarming how my fellow generation is so susceptible to this doctrine, it's like a cult.
Load More Replies... It's so much fun seeing the hard work of generations of women fighting for their rights to be recognized as 'equal' go down the drain as soon as a man in a skirt says so. We're now not entitled to penis-free bathrooms or changing rooms, we're now referred to as "people who bleed" instead of being "women", now transgender females are saying they're more beautiful than any naturally born woman can be, and abortion rights are being repealed. Shall I just pre-empt this by getting pregnant, get back in the kitchen barefoot making a misogynistic A-hole a sandwich? Don't worry, my safety means absolutely nothing when compared to your 'feels'. Hurrah for the end of women's rights.
The "people who bleed" js really repulsive. They have a good intention but saying this things just brings us back to the beginning. Cis women are not just their genitals; many do not bleed nor can have children and we are still women.
Load More Replies... also, to all the people saying "if a predator wants to commit a rape a single-sex changing room isn't going to stop him" - over 90% of sexual assaults, sexual harassment, and rapes occur in mixed-sex changing rooms, whilst less than 10% happen in single-sex areas. it's because a predator isn't going to gain much attention in a mixed-sex changing room, since it's considered normal, whilst if a man is spotted in the women's changing rooms alarm bells are gonna start ringing. mixed-sex places are like magnets for sex offenders since it's so easy and no-one's gonna notice. single-sex spaces are mandatory. and also, to the people saying that men who "identify as women" should be able to use women's spaces, just think about how easy it would be for a predator to infiltrate the women's changing rooms on the basis of his phony self-identification, and pedophiles and perverts are already taking these opportunities.
dress however you want. call yourself what you feel like. believe in what you wish. but infiltrate women's private spaces on the basis of your own delusion? not ok. the fact this man has been allowed to use the girl's changing rooms is pretty repulsive, it eliminates the women's opportunity to a male-free space without their consent. regardless of your beliefs, single-sex areas should be categorised on your biological sex, not some "gender" aspect that allows predatory men to invade women's bathrooms and changing rooms on the basis of their own self-identification. private spaces were created for people based on their sex, not their perception of themselves, that's why men's toilets have urinals. also, why would this man want to use the women's changing rooms anyway? I don't know if he's perverted and just wants to look at undressing women, or another reason, but it's awful to eliminate the rights of multiple women to provide for the needs of one man. this is just blatant misogyny.
As far as I'm aware, there are stalls in the bathroom. EVEN IF someone "fakes" being transgender ... wtf is supposed to happen? So who cares who goes where ... I'm just a little self conscious about peeing into the urinal when there is a woman present ... but if this woman was able to pee standing up, by all means ... let her.
So this trans guy can't change with a male dancer because it's just comfortable for him, but up yours to the people that are uncomfortable with him changing with their daughters? So really he thinks everyone should acquiesce to his disorder and he shouldn't take anyone else's discomfort into account??? How arrogant and selfish can a guy be?????
**Trans WOMAN. A trans "guy" would be a female transitioning to male. Clearly the girls whose comfort should be under consideration had absolutely no issue with her sharing their locker room. But sure, let's acquiesce to the adults' transphobia and make her life even harder, because you can't wrap your head around someone changing themselves to be who they were meant to be.
Load More Replies... Bro, literally, she just wants to be treated with the same amount of respect you want to
Load More Replies... Are you a rapist? Testosterone doesnt make you an animal withiut impulse control.
Load More Replies... I'm sure your daughter is more mature and open-minded than you are about the topic. If you think your child is in that much danger, why not pull her from school and home-school her? Then you won't have to worry about her and you're not interfering with someone else's rights to be who they are......
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