California May Allow Girls to Not Be Forced to Use Bathrooms and Showers With Males... If They Sign a "Mental Health Accommodation Request" Asserting That They Have a Mental Health "Disability"

Sign this form certifying that your mental health is shaky and maybe we'll allow you to use girl's-only bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers.

If we feel like it.

A California school district has enacted a new rule for young girls who are uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with biological males pretending to be girls, requiring the girls to file a mental health accommodation request.

The Temecula Valley Unified School District TVUSD has reportedly enacted a rule that tells female students who feel uncomfortable sharing bathroom space with biological males must file a mental health accommodation request under federal law if they want privacy.

The move has prompted outrage from parents and others who say that the rule treats those girls who object to sharing private space with biological males as the problem and treating their request for privacy as a type of disability.

Parents are being forced to sign an official form which claims that their children have a "disability" that must be accommodated.

By the way, the NYT just did a hit-piece on Riley Gaines in which it knocked her achievements and suggested she's only defending women for the exposure. They said she came in fifth during the nationals, but now she's finally close to "victory."

In other words: victories eluded her in sport, but now she's a Right-Wing Influencer and finally getting a W.

I dunno... I would say that coming in fifth of all female swimmers (and some MALE swimmers, too!) in the entire country, in the country that owns most swimming Gold Medals, counts as a victory.

But nah, the NYT wants to celebrate Will Thomas.

Another AWFL. What a surprise.

By Ruth Graham

With caps covering their hair, goggles over their eyes, and sleek suits down to their knees, the eight swimmers on the pool deck looked indistinguishable from one another. They crouched in identical poses: One foot back, head down, rear up, hands dropped forward on the starting block. Together, they waited for the starting signal.

It was the evening of March 18, 2022, the women's 200-yard freestyle final at the N.C.A.A. Division I swimming and diving championships. Small and stacked with international talent, the competition is harder to qualify for than the U.S. Olympic trials.

That night, the atmosphere in the arena was charged with a tension distinct from the usual intensity of athletic competition. "I've never felt a crowd root against anybody before," said Dan D'Addona, who covered the meet for Swimming World Magazine.

Here's the thing: People don't like cheaters.

The target was Lia Thomas, a quiet senior from the University of Pennsylvania.

This "quiet senior" confessed on social media to being an autogynephile, meaning, a pervert who gets off by appearing in women's garb in front of unwilling spectators.

Ms. Thomas swam competitively for years as a member of the men's team, before beginning estrogen treatment to transition in 2019, and later switching to racing with the women. Over the course of the 2021-22 season, she became national news, an avatar for churning unease about gender, power, safety, sports, politics, feminism and biology.

The commentators calling the 200-yard freestyle final never once mentioned the name of the swimmer in Lane 1, Riley Gaines. A senior at the University of Kentucky who planned to enroll in dental school in the fall, she swam in the middle of the pack. So did Ms. Thomas. In the end, they tied for fifth place.

But as Ms. Thomas has largely dropped from public view in the years since, Ms. Gaines has turned that fateful race into a thriving career as an activist against the participation of transgender women in women's sports. By turns a roving speaker, indignant influencer and canny provocateur, she has embraced her cause with such zeal that she has become a variation on the target of attention that Ms. Thomas once was.

"All of this campaigning because you lost a race," the gymnast Simone Biles told her online in June, after Ms. Gaines referred to a transgender high school softball player as a boy.

Ms. Gaines's views, taboo in liberal spaces only a few years ago, are increasingly mainstream. It is hard to find a politician in either major party to offer a full-throated defense of the idea of transgender women playing women's sports. And a poll this year by The New York Times found that 79 percent of Americans oppose it.

Meanwhile, the N.C.A.A. has tightened its rules, and Ms. Thomas is now barred from swimming in elite competitions, including the Olympics. On July 1, Penn reached an agreement with the Department of Education stripping transgender competitors, including Ms. Thomas, of credit for past records and titles, and promising to send a "personalized letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer."

Here's how the game is played: a female swimmer says that a man who wanted to swim on the female team threatened to kill himself if his demands were not met, and then the school's administrator's swarmed into pressure her to accept him.

Jackson Thompson @JackThompsonFOX

Former Roanoke College women's swim captain Lily Mullens reflected on a 2023 incident when a transgender athlete allegedly revealed a plan to commit suicide to her team while discussing whether to let the athlete compete with the women.

Mullens alleges school administrators were present at the meeting and "didn't say anything" when the suicidal thoughts were revealed, and the school's mental health counselors weren't even aware of it until after the women spoke out about it a month later.

The Virginia Attorney General has determined that Roanoke violated the law with its handling of the entire situation, in investigation findings that were released by complainants on Monday.

If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

Virginia AG Miyales has just charged Roanoke with violating the Virginia Human Rights Act.

posted by Ace at 06:28 PM

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