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As much of a liberal as I am, I don't agree with all of this. I don't believe that children -- who by definition are not fully developed human beings -- can know whether they are the wrong gender. Does this policy actually accommodate transgender children, or does it simply encourage kids to seek attention by proclaiming themselves to be the wrong gender? You are what you are -- that's what we need to be teaching kids. No child, by the way, should be permitted to "transition" to the opposite gender if that includes any kind of medical intervention -- deciding that you are the wrong gender is a decision that can only be made by an adult.

"The needs of the many outweight the needs of the few" [when there is a conflict] -- I hate to quote Star Trek here, but it is true. A boy who thinks he is a girl should not be changing with the girls in the girls' locker room. That's a violation of the privacy of the girls. As for sports, it's insane to put boys on girls' sports teams -- that gives any sports team with "transgender" students on it an advantage over competitors.

This is liberalism run amok. We are now living in a world in which 2 + 2 = 5.

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