SHALL I+ NOT BE AVENGED

ON SUCH A NATION AS THIS ?

Thus saith The LORD.

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Yea, I+ shall be  , and  upon all peoples that agree with it.  Come out of her, MY+ People, and touch not the unclean “thing.” 

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Christians, do whatever you can

to pull your children

OUT OF THE

PUBLIC SCHOOL POCKET.  

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The public school system is promoting lies and Anti -Christian lifestyles and standards.

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The public school system is Anti Christian.

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The government of the U.S.A. has openly declared itself to be the Enemy of The LORD GOD of Israel, of HIS Torah, of The Prophets, and of The Gospel of Life+ which was delivered to the world by the Eternal SON+ and Word+ of YHWH Who+ was made flesh for our sake.

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The United States is in DEEP TROUBLE.

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For the Disciples and Followers of

JESUS CHRIST / YESHUA+ ha MOSHIACH:

    Prepare yourselves to stand firmly for TRUTH.

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We are marked for persecution and hurt,

as our LORD+ was marked by the leaders,

both religious and secular.

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A transgender “female” student has been legally granted the RIGHT to have access to the high school girls’ locker room, in a FIRST-TIME case promoted by the US Dept of Civil Rights / US Dept of Education. 

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The US Dept. of Education has enforced TITLE IX — no discrimination according to sex, etc. —  upon school districts, and now, as evidenced by the Palatine, Illinois Township High School District 211 case,   is willing to back its enforcement in any way that it can, including a cut in federal monies.

The problem is, of course, that the “female” student is transgender, plays on a girls’ athletic team, and heretofore has been restricted FROM THE GIRLS’ LOCKER ROOM, although given a private room in which to shower and change clothes.  ( See the complete story below.)

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CHICAGO November 3, 2015  from The New York Times —

Federal education authorities, staking out their firmest position yet on an increasingly contentious issue, found Monday that an Illinois school district violated anti-discrimination laws when it did not allow a transgender student who identifies as a girl and participates on a girls’ sports team to change and shower in the girls’ locker room without restrictions.

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Education officials said the decision was the first of its kind on the rights of transgender students, which are emerging as a new cultural battleground in public schools across the country. In previous cases, federal officials had been able to reach settlements giving access to transgender students in similar situations.

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But in this instance, the school district in Palatine, Ill., has not yet come to an agreement, prompting the federal government to threaten sanctions. The district, northwest of Chicago, has indicated a willingness to fight for its policy in court.

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The Education Department gave 30 days to the officials of Township High School District 211 to reach a solution or face enforcement, which could include administrative law proceedings or a Justice Department court action. The district could lose some or all of its Title IX funding.
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In a letter sent Monday, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education told the Palatine district that requiring a transgender student to use private changing and showering facilities was a violation of that student’s rights under Title IX, a federal law that bans sex discrimination. The student, who identifies as female but was born male, should be given unfettered access to girls’ facilities, the letter said.

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“All students deserve the opportunity to participate equally in school programs and activities — this is a basic civil right,” Catherine Lhamon, the Education Department’s assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement. “Unfortunately, Township High School District 211 is not following the law because the district continues to deny a female student the right to use the girls’ locker room.”

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Daniel Cates, the district superintendent, said in a statement Monday that he disagreed with the decision, which he described as “a serious overreach with precedent-setting implications.” In an interview, Dr. Cates said district officials had “worked long and hard” to develop a plan that the district believed would balance the rights of everyone involved. That plan entails having the student change beyond privacy curtains in the girls’ locker room.

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The rights of transgender students have become the focus of disputes in school districts in many states, leading to divergent approaches regarding which sports teams they can play on, bathrooms they can use and pronouns they are addressed by. In separate cases, two California school districts agreed to lift restrictions on transgender locker room and restroom access after federal officials intervened. Students at one Missouri high school protested a decision by the district to let a transgender girl use female locker rooms and restrooms.

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Officials in the Palatine district, which serves more than 12,000 students, have framed their position as a middle ground. The transgender student in question plays on a girls’ sports team, is called “she” by school staff and is referred to by a female name. But the district, citing privacy concerns, had required her to change clothes and shower separately.

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The district said she was allowed to change inside the girls’ locker room, but only behind a curtain. The student, who has not been publicly identified, has said she would probably use that curtain to change. But she and the federal government have insisted that she be allowed to make that decision voluntarily, and not because of requirements by the district.

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“What our client wants is not hard to understand: She wants to be accepted for who she is and to be treated with dignity and respect — like any other student,” said John Knight, the director of the L.G.B.T. and H.I.V. Project of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, who is representing the student. “The district’s insistence on separating my client from other students is blatant discrimination. Rather than approaching this issue with sensitivity and dignity, the district has attempted to justify its conduct by challenging my client’s identity as a girl.”

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In the 14-page letter outlining their findings, education officials said they remained open to negotiating a settlement with the school district but could take enforcement action if an agreement did not materialize.

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Dr. Cates, the superintendent, said parents had made it resoundingly clear that they favored “maintaining some measure of privacy expectation” in the locker rooms. He said the district would continue settlement negotiations with Education Department officials, but added, “We do stand on the position that we have not violated any laws.”

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The student, who has identified as a girl from a young age, has changed her name, received a passport as a female and is undergoing hormone therapy, the Education Department said.

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Though she plays sports on a girls’ team, she changes her clothes in a bathroom separate from her teammates, the department’s letter said. When she entered the girls’ locker room on a few occasions, the findings said, a few students and one parent complained about her presence.

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Lawyers from the Thomas More Society, a nonprofit religious liberty organization, praised the district for its position, and described a locker room as significantly different from, for instance, a bathroom with stalls. The Education Department, they said, seemed to take a hard line.

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“You have a higher degree of visual privacy when you’re talking about stalls,” Jocelyn Floyd, a lawyer from the Thomas More Society, said. “In this case, the school has shown that they are sensitive to the needs of this transgender student but also to the needs of all the other students. When you think about it, there are a lot of students in high school who are uncomfortable with disrobing in front of people.”

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Demoya Gordon, an attorney at Lambda Legal, which advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, said the Palatine case was unusual for how vocal the school district had been.

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The Department of Education’s findings, unlike the agreements it reached in earlier circumstances, send a message to other districts wrestling with similar questions, she said. “This is telling them that they have to respect all students’ gender identities,” Ms. Gordon said.

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The Obama administration in recent years has also pushed to expand transgender rights in prisons and workplaces, seeking to ensure transgender inmates’ access to medical care, including hormone therapy, and to provide legal recourse for people claiming discrimination by employers because of their gender identity.

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A version of this article appears in print on November 3, 2015, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. Says Transgender Student Has Rights in the Locker Room . Order Reprints| Today’s Paper|Subscribe.

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This case has been settled by the school district, December 3, 2015, by removing the school’s right to set the standards for its students.  In the US DEPT of EDUCATION press release below, it is apparent that the transgender student is NOT REQUIRED to maintain privacy in showering or changing clothes in the girls’ locker room…   privacy curtains of some sort are merely INSTALLED in the locker room itself … should that student or any student wish to use them.

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Furthermore, there is NO MENTION of the shower facilities at all in this “agreement.” 

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( See the settlement agreement below, excerpted from the US Dept of Education press release. )

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The Public Education system is,

with the ENFORCEMENT

of the US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ,

backing every thing that is

AGAINST THE COMMANDMENTS

of The LORD GOD of Israel. 

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OCR concluded that the district violated Title IX because, for more than two school years, the district had denied a transgender student access to the girls’ locker rooms at her high school, and offered her only separate facilities to change clothes for her athletics activities and mandatory physical education classes in order to satisfy the graduation requirements and receive a high school diploma.

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The office noted that the district had previously designated the student as female in its computer system. And, that it had given the student unlimited access to all girls’ restrooms in the school and allowed her to participate in girls’ athletics.

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At a special meeting Wednesday night, the District 211 school board approved a settlement to address the issues raised in OCR’s letter of findings and begin the process to bring the district in compliance with civil rights laws.

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Under the agreement, the district agreed to take the following specific actions:

• Provide the student with access to the girls’ locker rooms at her high school based on the student’s request to change in private changing stations in the girls’ locker rooms.
• Protect the privacy of its students by installing sufficient privacy curtains within the girls’ locker rooms at the high school to accommodate the transgender student and any students who wish to be assured of privacy.
• Provide a reasonable alternative for any student requesting additional privacy—beyond the privacy afforded by the privacy curtains—in the girls’ locker rooms. Examples could include use of another private area or assignment of a locker in near proximity to the office of a teacher or coach.
• Coordinate with hosts of off-campus, district-sponsored activities to arrange for the transgender student to be provided access to facilities for female students.
• Engage a consultant (who may be a district employee) with expertise in child and adolescent gender identity, including transgender and gender nonconforming youth, to support and assist the district in implementing the resolution agreement.
• Establish a support team, if requested by the transgender student and her parents, to ensure that she has access and the opportunity to participate in all district programs and activities, and is otherwise protected from gender-based discrimination at school.
• Adopt and publish a revised notice of nondiscrimination on the basis of sex. And,
• Provide OCR with a copy or detailed description of all gender-based discrimination or harassment complaints or incidents.

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