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Fairfax School District Sued for Allowing Transgender Students into Girls’ Restrooms, Locker Rooms

As usual, the wording misses the point. The issue isn’t trans students in girls’ restrooms, it’s male students in girls’ restrooms. The problem isn’t being trans in girls’ facilities, the problem is being male there.

The plaintiff is an anonymous female student who has been enrolled in the Fairfax school district since the third grade. Because of her deeply held Roman Catholic beliefs, she doesn’t support the rule and feels that its requirement to use preferred pronouns “forces her to lie,” the filing states.

It’s got nothing to do with Catholic beliefs, deeply held or otherwise. The Catholic church is no friend to women.

FCPS adopted the first version of Regulation 2603, entitled “Gender-Expansive and Transgender Students,” in October 2020. It was later updated in April 2022.

Under these guidelines, students must take the “Student Rights and Responsibilities” test. One of the questions asks whether “a student has the right to be called by their chosen name and pronoun,” according to a copy of the form.

No. That’s a stupid idea of a “right.” If a student’s chosen name is “Donald Trump” does that student have the right to be called “Donald Trump”? And pronouns aren’t a matter of choice any more than verbs or nouns are. You can call a dog a basketball if you want to, but your conversations will be unduly complicated. Language conventions aren’t generally a matter of “rights” but of mutual comprehension.

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