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The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to intervene in the debate over bathrooms for transgender students, rejecting an appeal from an Indiana public school district.

Federal appeals courts are divided over whether school policies enforcing restrictions on which bathrooms transgender students can use violate federal law or the Constitution.

In the case the court rejected without comment, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an order granting transgender boys access to the boys’ bathroom. The appeal came from the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis.

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[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 144 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why would anyone care where people go the bathroom? Where do you think transsexuals have been going all these years? What nonsense.

[-] RedSeries@lemmy.world 88 points 2 years ago

Hey! I appreciate your support, trans rights are human rights!

In the future, could you please use transgender instead of transexual? The latter is a really dated term and ties a gender and societal issue to sexuality. While they may be closely associated, they're not the same thing and any little bit helps break that association.

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 88 points 2 years ago

I've proven I can't remember this kind of stuff, but I'll try.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

That’s how it’s done, people.

[-] RedSeries@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

That's all anyone can ask of you. It's appreciated!

[-] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Good on you for working on it though!

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[-] Cogency@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Seconded, transgender is more accurate and how we describe ourselves.

[-] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The one exception is older trans folk who use that label because it is the one that resonated with them when they were figuring themselves out. Despite the label's history with transmedicalism some of the elders are not down to have their identities questioned by us younger folk and their experiences are valid.

[-] SlothMama@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I think this is goofy. More than half my life I've heard the word transexual and I certainly don't think it's offensive.

[-] Gladaed@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Because you are old. Also this is to help young people understand better. We will not convince the fossils.

Retard used to be the nice word back in the day. Language evolves and people suck. It can be difficult to accept both.

[-] SlothMama@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I prefer transexual if I'm honest though, Transgender feels flimsier. I'm not trying to transcend the idea of what gender you see, I'm trying to transcend the boundaries of biological sex

That is implicitly more powerful to me.

[-] LeafOnTheWind@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah a transexual sounds more like someone who is sexually attracted to transgender people.

[-] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

The actual word for that is Skoliosexual...

( weak and offkey GI Joe theme played on a kazoo as I melt back into the internet)

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They have a whole ~~fantasy~~ conspiracy they've cooked up where we're sneaking in to women's restrooms to do human trafficking and dark web revenge porn and shit.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

And that's the typical projection of the conservatives who revealed that they would do that if they had the ability.

[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

If a trans man sneaks into the boys room, everybody in the room spontaneously turns gay.

If a trans woman sneaks into the girls room, it’s a lesbian orgy.

I don’t make the facts.

[-] maness300@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I think a bigger concern are regular men using this as an excuse to creep on women in bathrooms.

At least that's what I hear women saying. They're afraid of men using their restrooms.

[-] CultHero@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

It's so much easier for a cis man to say he's a trans man than for a cis man to dress as a woman and try to pass as a trans woman.

[-] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Not saying you haven't, but I've never once heard a woman afraid of men creeping on women in the bathroom. But I'm curious, aside from someone outside the bathroom doors either checking genitals or birth certificates, how exactly would enforcement of a bathroom bill work?

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

They don’t think we’ve been around for years.

[-] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

I'm reading this super awesome book called "before we were trans" That kind of goes over the history of gender non-conformity and transgender identities. It's fucking amazing

[-] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 11 points 2 years ago

They don't believe transexuals exist.

[-] schwim@reddthat.com 11 points 2 years ago

I don't have anything to back it up but I think it's a large group's correlation between trans/gay == pedophilia. When I was a kid, my mom(southern baptist republican) didn't differentiate between gay people and illegal sexual activity like molestation(this was in the 80s). If my mom had been told that a guy that viewed himself as a girl wanted to use the girl's restroom, she would have immediately decided it was because he wanted to do something terrible to the girls.

I think the main reason for that is because her God told her gay people were going to hell.. It made it easy for her to view them as evil.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Worse: they are expending huge amounts of tax dollars over the right to act in a discriminatory way.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, fuck your genitals, show me how big your dookies are! Who's gonna help me start a petition to build a national weekly poopie scoreboard? USA! USA! USA! USA!

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Username checks out...

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