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[myreality]

http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/ka...=reddit-tablet

Attorneys: Katy-area teacher fired for refusing to address girl, 6, as transgender boy

A federal discrimination complaint has been filed on behalf of a Katy-area educator who says she was wrongly terminated for refusing to address a 6-year-old girl as a transgender boy, the teacher's attorneys said Tuesday.
Madeline Kirksey, of Houston, who worked at the Children's Lighthouse Learning Center location on Clay Road, was fired Nov. 3 after she would not agree to treat the child as a male and call the child by a new male name, according to a copy of the filing with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Taylor stressed that the child had been attending school since the start of classes as a "little girl."
Using fake names, Taylor said that the child left school Friday as "Sally" and returned on Monday going by "Johnny."
"They had a real issue on their hands," Taylor said of the school staff.
Taylor maintained the child's gender identity wasn't set in stone. He said the child continued to use the girls' bathroom. The 6-year-old also played football with the boys and, when hit hard, cried and said, "I'm really not a little boy."
Taylor likened the imposition of such a decision over gender on a child to "child abuse." At such a young age, he said, kids haven't even decided what ice cream or cereal they prefer.

I wonder if the parents should be investigated. I highly doubt that the child came up with this all by herself.

[Aksannyi]

If you'd read the transgender thread, plenty of children do come to that conclusion on their own, they just don't know what it's called.

[myreality]

Really? I find that hard to believe that these little ones identify the opposite gender without some outside influence. Then again i never read up on the subject and assumed that any child around 5 does not have a solid idea on who they are or should be. Welp, time to do some reading.

[BaneTheBrawler]

You're right and you're wrong. You're right that they don't have a solid idea. Sometimes kids just decide "I'm a boy." for no reason. Sometimes they move on, sometimes they don't. Doesn't always mean something, and what kind of an asshole do you need to be to hear a kid say "I'm a boy!" and respond "No you're not."? Bitch, 5 fucking minutes ago that kid was a goddamn train. If she says she's a boy, fucking roll with it like a mature adult.

[FNH]

You're right and you're wrong. You're right that they don't have a solid idea. Sometimes kids just decide "I'm a boy." for no reason. Sometimes they move on, sometimes they don't. Doesn't always mean something, and what kind of an asshole do you need to be to hear a kid say "I'm a boy!" and respond "No you're not."? Bitch, 5 fucking minutes ago that kid was a goddamn train. If she says she's a boy, fucking roll with it like a mature adult.

[Brill Weave]

Someone get CS her phone number. She's perfect for him.

[notorious bum]

Fat-bottom girls make the rockin' world go 'round.

[BaneTheBrawler]

Someone get CS her phone number. She's perfect for him.

I see two conflicts: One, she has an extra dimension. Two, she's riding a bus.

[Brill Weave]

And CS gets hit by buses all the time. It's a match made in future vehicular manslaughter heaven.

[thetruepandagod]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...skin-soft.html

[dasva]

But does it work?

[TummieGaruda]

A 9 year old writing a love letter that says "I like you because your eyes sparkle like diamonds" apparently is cause for sexual harassment charges.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2432300

Don't know the full contents of the letter but apparently he wrote one before. This last one the kids in his class found out about the letter and teased him that he just wanted to see the girl naked.

[myreality]

Poor kid

[Ksandra]

An eight year old doesn't have the knowledge to not beat a one year old to death?

In this situation it was a a family of five kids, and the 1 year old girl (and her mom) who were staying with them.

I would not be surprised if the mother of the five beats her kids. 8 year old probably beat the 1 year old to keep her quiet and did not realize how hard he was doing it. Trying to parrot the way his mom does it. So no, I don't think he realized how hard he was hitting and how much damage that would cause to a 1 year old.

[Blubbartron]

In this situation it was a a family of five kids, and the 1 year old girl (and her mom) who were staying with them.

I would not be surprised if the mother of the five beats her kids. 8 year old probably beat the 1 year old to keep her quiet and did not realize how hard he was doing it. Trying to parrot the way his mom does it. So no, I don't think he realized how hard he was hitting and how much damage that would cause to a 1 year old.

That's pretty much what I surmised as well. An adult was either beating a kid to be quiet, or beating an animal, and this kid was there to see it.

[dasva]

I'm sure there will be some kind of investigation for us all to find out how horrible she may have been

[Ksandra]

I'm sure there will be some kind of investigation for us all to find out how horrible she may have been

She left her five kids to go clubbing. I think we already know.

[TummieGaruda]

Not sure if it belongs here or elsewhere

Charlie Sheen supposedly going to announce tomorrow that he is H.I.V Positive.

[Melena]

Any sort of source on that?

[Vaspinne]

It's kind of trending on twitter. He plans on going on the Today show to announce it

http://www.people.com/article/charli...tter_peoplemag