Comments on: Judge rebukes school in trans student suit

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:21:01 +0000

Lizzy Said said: “Why does this article refer to the student as “he”? I hope it is because that is the student’s preferred gender pronoun. If not, it is incredibly disrespectful to use the wrong pronoun and journalists working for an LGBT news source should be aware of this.”

I agree. What’s up with this–particulalry at 365gay? Haven’t you all read the AP Stylebook? Or have any respect for someone’s gender identity?

By: Jessi

Jessi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:38:26 +0000

the message i read here is, it’s still not right to be female.

By: JK

JK — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:36:04 +0000

“Ragen Hatcher, the attorney for the school district, said the board was not deliberately trying to prevent Lambda from access to the files, but that gathering the information had taken longer than anticipated.”

BULLSHIT!

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:55:07 +0000

Freedom is always worth it… If not we would still be drinking tea between 2 and 5…. I believe that if one person isn’t free then we all are not really free.. Any day the tide could turn and we could be on the receiving end of our freedoms being taken away….

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:58:16 +0000

Here you have a number of problems that all involve increasing levels of penalties against not only the victim here, but the average citizen.

The school board in question is a public school, and therefore is forbidden to discriminate in the first place. It’s paid for with taxpayer money. Now, the victim has a suit filed against the absolutely guilty organization, which will pay for whatever defense it wants with even more taxpayer money. Then, on the chance that the victim wins, the suit will be settled with even more taxpayer money. This sort of situation doesn’t just harm the person they’re slamming, but it harms every single person in the community. How much is it really worth to the average citizen that they should have money taken out of their pockets just to keep this one person from living freely?

And once all this is over, what are the odds of anyone being held accountable?

Classmates and friends rallied to Logan’s defense to no avail—even though a female student was allowed to attend dressed in a tuxedo.

The hypocrisy here is enough to make me want to puke.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:33:12 +0000

Why does this article refer to the student as “he”? I hope it is because that is the student’s preferred gender pronoun. If not, it is incredibly disrespectful to use the wrong pronoun and journalists working for an LGBT news source should be aware of this.

Using the wrong pronouns in journalism regarding transgender people is like newspapers that try to write pro-diversity articles but use slurs to refer to minority groups rather than their preferred language. LGBT news should take leadership in this area, portraying the range of transgender experiences, from guys wearing dresses to transgender women wearing dresses, by being attentive to using the right pronouns.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:53:43 +0000

I hope that when this case finally gets to court the judge rips the school district a new one.

I can understand a policy denying students the right to wear clothing that advertises their sexual orientation. It violates freedom of expression, but many places have a dress code and provided the policy is applied equally to heterosexual and homosexual students I can accept it (though certainly not like it).

However, for a transgendered student, the clothes they wear can be vital to their self image, and forcing them to wear clothing “appropriate to their sex” can be psychologically damaging. To deny a transgendered student entrance to their prom because they’re wearing the right clothes – sick. Simply sick.

The only comfort I take from this story is the news that “his” friends stood by him. It offers at least some hope for the next generation.