Illinois judge accepts biology, rejects transgender science denier's request

An Illinois judge denied a mentally ill male who believes he's a female his request to change clothes with actual female students in the girl's locker room at a public high school.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois is representing Nova Maday, the male student at Palatine's Township High School District 211. The ACLU petitioned the court last year, arguing the student should be treated as if he's a girl and not be forced to deal with reality.

On Thursday, Judge Thomas Allen, who evidently got an "A" in biology, rejected the request to go along with Maday's delusion that he's a female. Perhaps the good judge believed it would do the poor young man no good to allow the lie to persist, and to subject high school girls to having to deal with him exposing his junk in the locker room.

The ACLU will consult with Maday on how he wants to proceed with the case.

"Clearly, we are disappointed in this decision. We continue to believe that the school is wrong to discriminate against our client. There is no exception under our nondiscrimination laws that allows a school to treat transgender students differently because of lack of understanding or discomfort about transgender people," said John Knight, LGBTQ policy director at the ACLU.

"To me, this is a simple question--am I going to be treated just like any other girl in my school. All I want is to be accepted by my school for who I am--a girl--and be able to take gym and use the locker room to change clothes like other [actual] girls in my class," Nova Maday said after the judge ruled in favor of reality.

The ACLU cited Illinois Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination. But Kellie Fiedorek, an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), called it a "baseless" claim.

"That law specifically allows facilities like locker rooms to be reserved for girls, whose desire privacy is both important and understandable, particularly in the post-Weinstein era," Ms. Fiedorek said, referencing Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced notorious scum bag.

The ADF and Thomas More Society represented a group of concerned parents and students who intervened in the lawsuit.

"Schools should never be forced to give male students unrestricted access to areas where girls are changing clothes. Claiming a female gender identity doesn't change that," said Thomas Brejcha, chief counsel at the Thomas More Society.

ADF noted in a press release, that the transgender student continues to be allowed to change in the female locker room, but must do so behind a curtain.

And going along with his mental illness does him no favor. The suicide rate among transgender people, both before and after transition, is around 40 percent. And it has nothing to do with acceptance of the transition.

To help this group of people psychiatry must get involved and we must all stop pretending that biology is not the deciding factor of gender. That somehow a person can magically think he or she is a member of the opposite sex and therefore we must go along with it--this is asking us to lie about what is real, and this is what science denying is all about.

We need to treat people with gender dysmorphic disorder or gender identity disorder and stop pretending that it's other than that.

There was a time when a person who identified with being, say, Napoleon, was institutionalized. Now the ACLU wants us to call him Napoleon or "The Little Corporal," and treat him like the leader of the French armies.


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