Drama has stirred up Hillsboro Missouri at the local High School. There is a (male) transgender student that has recently came out as female “Lila Perry”. She began to feel like a girl when she was just 13, but began dressing like one in August of 2015. Lila is 17, a senior, and now wears skirts, a dark brown wig with bobby pins, and even makeup.
The controversy isn’t just over Lila Perry being a transgender, but because of her using the girls locker rooms and restrooms. Many of the girls that attend Hillsboro high school are upset about this because they feel uncomfortable changing in front of someone who is really still a male. One student said “Some girls already have insecurity problems getting dressed in front of other girls, much less getting dressed in front of a boy.” But Lila Perry says “I am a girl. I am not going to be pushed away to another bathroom.”
After many parent complaints, and a petition to the school board, students held a walkout Monday with their parents’ support. The small town of just 2,900 people hit national headlines with their protest.
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Do you think Lila Perry and other transgenders (lesbians, gays, or even bisexuals) should have to use a separate locker/bathroom? Why//why not?
Do you think Bruce Jenner becoming “Caitlyn” has anything to do with many people recently “coming out”? Why//why not?
What would you do about the locker/restroom problem if you were the principal?
My opinion: I think that they should have a small separate locker room for LGBT, because it is not fair for girls to have to change in front of a guy or vice versa.
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Great choice of topic and super job Perri!
I think people should be uncomfortable about it, but i think if the people change and they are truly a boy that now thinks of them self as a girl then they should get to be in the other locker room. I do think it has effect because people will follow a popular person. I would talk to the school about it and voice my opinion on the situation.
I do not agree with the being in the girls locker room if they are really a guy. The school said it was up to the student's to decide, and I believe it should be a majority vote type of thing. I would also go to the principal to voice my opinion though.
I get that he is truing into a girl but i think that she should still use the boys bathroom because he/ she still has the male parts and everything and it be rude and bully them if they make a separate bathroom for just those guys i think it be rude and people would bully them. I think it does because she is one of those popular people that some younger kids look up to and maybe they want to be like her or something witch isn't a big deal everyone is different in there own way. I would just see if she would go back and use the boys locker room and everything till she is out of school and she can use whatever bathroom and everything she wants to.
I get why the girls were feeling uncomfortable. I think I'd be uncomfortable getting changed in front of a girl that's actually still a boy as well. However, I also think that we as a people need to be open to people like this because all they want to do is be themselves. And if being themselves is being a different gender, let them be them. I'm not saying I totally agree with this. I agree that you were made to be who you originally are, but it doesn't bother me that much. Therefore, I don't think that transgenders should have to use separate bathrooms. Maybe locker rooms, but not bathrooms. I think that Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn might have something to do with it, but I'm not completely sure. I think seeing someone else do this and watching them talk about it on live TV might give them some confidence to be themselves. If I were the principal, I don't know what I'd do. On one side I'd want to please the people, but on the other side I think I'd feel kind of bad for the transgender kid. All he wanted to do was change genders without discrimination. Isn't that the least we can do?
I do agree that even though it is wrong, we should try and be accepting and be open to changes like this. I also am not overly bothered by transgender people, I think because I do not put much thought into, or maybe because I know that they are really not a different gender. I also think separate locker rooms is a good idea, not so much bathrooms.
I agree that it doesn't need to be a completely separate locker room, I think they could have a small enclosed area for them in their desired gender locker room. It does say in the article though that the students were not making fun of Lila, they were just fighting for what they think is right, and they are uncomfortable changing in front of a different gender. I also agree that people should stop judging others, and let them be who they want to be.
Any transgender(gays, lesbians, or bisexuals) should have a different locker room because it makes people feel uncomfortable. A boy could be acting like a girl just to get in the girls locker room. Same with restrooms, just have a sign that says gender confused male's or female's here. But we should not have problems like this anyway. The world is a horrible place and is just getting worse.
I was thinking the same thing! Although it is pretty unlikely that someone would fake it like this just to get in a girls locker room..it could be a dare. I agree the world does stink, and it is only getting worse.
I agree with Alana's view that transgender people should use the family room, because we don't have any families that are in need of the bathroom during the school day, and odds are that the transgender student's won't be using the restroom on the weekends or during a school event when a mother and her 3 kids might use the restroom/locker room. This would make it easier financially to afford the extra expense of putting in a third locker room.
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