are you referring to socialists and communists and anarchists? because we love guns over here.

I think a lot of people have not read the article. Locker rooms/changing rooms are already uncomfortable. If there was a girl in my locker room in school, I would have been uncomfortable too. From the article, I wouldn't go so far as to call it bullying, and suspending the students, but it's clear that this is a time to have a talk with them, and if he is willing, the trans student as well.

In fairness to the school district, they said they would not have suspended the students for something like this, and they are investigating. So chances are there is more that happened than what is in the news cycle.

I think a lot of people have not read the article. Locker rooms/changing rooms are already uncomfortable. If there was a girl in my locker room in school, I would have been uncomfortable too. From the article, I wouldn't go so far as to call it bullying, and suspending the students, but it's clear that this is a time to have a talk with them, and if he is willing, the trans student as well.

In fairness to the school district, they said they would not have suspended the students for something like this, and they are investigating. So chances are there is more that happened than what is in the news cycle.

It sounds like there wasn't a girl in the locker room, but a trans boy.

I'm not saying that isn't awkward, but your perception of events aren't exactly accurate either.

I'm trans personally, and I think the solution to this is more gender-neutral spaces. If I use the men's room, I make men uncomfortable because I'm a woman. If I didn't pass, I might make folks uncomfortable in the women's room instead.

The issue is the gender binary and our cultures discomfort of anything outside it. Not that a trans boy was more comfortable in the boys locker room.

That said, I don't think the trans boy should have been filming. I get the he wanted to catch the harassment on video, but an audio recording would have served the same purpose.

My opinion: no.
Children under certain age have no capacity to detect malice or disinformation when interacting with others, especially adults and algorithms bent on harm.

Hell, most adults probably aren't.
But as long as a child has a guardian, it's the guardian's responsibility to teach, guide and protect.

Letting a child lose into the internet is harmful, just like letting one out into a city.

I don't think age verification is a particularly good tool to enforce that, but I don't know what is, on a societal level.

I do agree with the stated goals tho.

It sounds like there wasn't a girl in the locker room, but a trans boy.

I'm not saying that isn't awkward, but your perception of events aren't exactly accurate either.

I'm trans personally, and I think the solution to this is more gender-neutral spaces. If I use the men's room, I make men uncomfortable because I'm a woman. If I didn't pass, I might make folks uncomfortable in the women's room instead.

The issue is the gender binary and our cultures discomfort of anything outside it. Not that a trans boy was more comfortable in the boys locker room.

That said, I don't think the trans boy should have been filming. I get the he wanted to catch the harassment on video, but an audio recording would have served the same purpose.

It sounds like there wasn't a girl in the locker room, but a trans boy.

I'm not saying that isn't awkward, but your perception of events aren't exactly accurate either.

I'm trans personally, and I think the solution to this is more gender-neutral spaces. If I use the men's room, I make men uncomfortable because I'm a woman. If I didn't pass, I might make folks uncomfortable in the women's room instead.

The issue is the gender binary and our cultures discomfort of anything outside it. Not that a trans boy was more comfortable in the boys locker room.

That said, I don't think the trans boy should have been filming. I get the he wanted to catch the harassment on video, but an audio recording would have served the same purpose.

Then it's fortunate that your personal experience doesn't dictate school safety procedures

To be fair, the big WTF to me was that the trans boy walked into the locker room to film the reactions. I think breaking out the camera in any locker room by anyone would be considered unacceptable.

No, I think I got it alright.

and if he is willing, the trans student as well.

I imagine some girls would be equally as uncomfortable with this boy in their locker room. From the perspective of those other boys, there was a girl in their locker room. We need to teach understanding that trans people exist, and they need to use bathrooms and locker rooms as well.

I'm with you on having more availability of gender neutral locker rooms, but until schools either integrate all locker rooms (unlikely, seeing how parents have reacted) or build a 3rd locker room (equally unlikely IMO) then we need to teach about how trans people feel, and replace fear and discomfort with understanding and acceptance.

I agree, but let's analyze this a bit further... Who's personal experience should dictate school safety procedures?

If there was a girl in my locker room in school, I would have been uncomfortable too.

I was referencing specifically this part of your post.

But I agree with your take overall. And see that in the quoted text you were referencing the boys perceptions. But it also sounds like this harassment was ongoing, hence the trans boy feeling the need to record it. Calling him a girl was likely part of that harassment. They likely know he's trans. But are learning a lot of exclusionary rhetoric from their peers and likely adults too. Which they used to harass and exclude the trans boy.

We need education, inclusion. And yeah, safe gender neutral spaces too.

I'm going to circle back around, there was an investigation launched. They don't launch those investigations without evidence. And the boys were suspended, which means that the school board, with their experience dealing with bullies found that this was a situation where a trans boy was being bullied by his peers. The school used it's experience to determine the answer question you posed. And suspended the bullies.

In your comment that I initially replied to, you pushed the idea that these kids truly believe that this is a girl. I think it's far more likely that they know he's trans, and view him as a freak. Calling him a girl wasn't there perception. It was the language they chose to bully someone they see as different.

And incidents like this are why suicide rates are high in the trans population.

Yeah but the human shit stains will just recede back into the woodwork before they can all be identified.

This has gone too far. Conservative media has just become purposeless cruelty. Bullying in any form shouldn't be allowed in school. Its obviously not only inhumane to allow that shit but its a liability for schools.

When was it not? Rush was pretty mean back in the day.

It sounds like there wasn't a girl in the locker room, but a trans boy.

I'm not saying that isn't awkward, but your perception of events aren't exactly accurate either.

I'm trans personally, and I think the solution to this is more gender-neutral spaces. If I use the men's room, I make men uncomfortable because I'm a woman. If I didn't pass, I might make folks uncomfortable in the women's room instead.

The issue is the gender binary and our cultures discomfort of anything outside it. Not that a trans boy was more comfortable in the boys locker room.

That said, I don't think the trans boy should have been filming. I get the he wanted to catch the harassment on video, but an audio recording would have served the same purpose.