@3 'that "no matter who they are" part is bothering me. Does anyone think it expresses an implicit disrespect?'

I think it acknowledges a clear disrespect.

To judge beyond that, I'd want a lot more context and background, and frankly, the statement is clear and unequivocal, so I might try to issue a pass even if it did.

@3, ***trigger warning***

I think you might be reading a bit much into it, but maybe I'm just giving the board the benefit of the doubt. I'm forced to assume you read "...no matter who they are" with an implicit appendation of "...even if they're a tranny!"

I read those last 5 words as a broad stroke to reference all frequent targets for bullies. That seems like the sort of verbiage administrators need to paint with to address a wide variety of different marginalized people.

And I think we can agree, trans* people are sadly at the top of a lot of shitheads' lists.

@4, interesting that wasn't brought up. You'd think the Stranger could be a little more intersectional.

Latest news reports say the kid recanted.

@10 "we really need gender neutral bathrooms"

...and locker rooms, etc.

Given the physical plant profile of most school districts, we are not getting there in any one of our lifetimes, except perhaps at ruinous expense.

So, even if we pretend that it's free and a given we'll do this in all new schools, how many programs should we cut to do this? What new funding source could possibly get approved to limit those cuts? What time frame is acceptable to get these accommodations in place?

Lastly, can't most of this be resolved with adequate education, something which is admittedly not necessarily available in all our schools.

@10 "we really need gender neutral bathrooms"

I identify as a cat, I demand a litter box!

Carolyn Laub, executive director of the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, which supports and trains student organizations that serve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, said Monday's attack indicates that Hercules High has serious safety problems that have nothing to do with the new law.

indubitably

"This is a horrible incident with a young person who has been sexually assaulted. It's not about bathrooms," Laub said. "It's an attack and it happened at a school where violence has been rampant and allowed to escalate to where something like this has been allowed to occur."

it is most definitely NOT about bathrooms.

hear! hear!

don't worry Danny

being an AssHole means never having to say you're sorry.

Credulous DumbAss......

"It was the first assault of a transgender student made public since a new California law went into effect on Jan. 1 guaranteeing students the right to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match the gender with which they identify."

Or Not.

So; in a state with 50,000,000 people ZERO transvestites have been attacked in bathrooms?!?

Butt! Butt!

Our Dear Leader Danny insisted it's only trans kids—and trans adults—who get assaulted in bathrooms!!!

something stinks in Danmark, for sure

This can not stand!

Danny, lead us- we must march down to Californy and BURN THAT FUCKING SCHOOL DOWN!!

are we right? people?

Investigators at the bathroom stall crime scene have discovered strange tongue prints on the door knobs and toilet seat.

Danny, is there anything you want to share?

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instead of deleting the first comment danny should have learned from it.

you can't teach an old dog new tricks....