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Transgender is a mental health issue

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Bruce Jenner (Photo credit: Wikipedia How could we be sure that our baby’s assigned gender at birth wasn’t more than just a shot in the dark? Maybe our boy would not be a “cis-boy” (a male whose assigned male gender is more or less consistent with their personal sense of self). After all, we have been told “gender cannot be defined by anyone other than the individual” and furthermore “gender roles are socially constructed” and “gender is not a very clearly-defined concept.” And to make matters even more complicated, why would we limit our child’s choice to just male and female? “ Facebook made it official last February when it told the world that limiting binary-gendered options is a thing of the past and added a third option to its standard male and female ones: custom. From a drop-down menu, users can select from 58 different identities, including agender, androgyne, gender fluid, trans female, trans male , trans person, cisgender, and two-spirit. (Each term refers to a subtl

Court backs Baptist college that expelled trans student for lying on application

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English: The 100,000 square-foot Yeager Center is the hub of the CBU campus and features classrooms, offices, stores, restaurants and key student service departments including admissions, financial aid and career services. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A California court has  sided with  a Baptist college that was  sued for discrimination after expelling a cross-dressing male nursing student who lied on his application and said he was a female.   The school discovered Domaine Javier’s deception after he appeared on an episode of MTV ’s “ True Life ” reality show called “I’m Passing as Someone I’m Not,” in which he revealed that he was only pretending to be female. Javier sued California Baptist University for $500,000 in damages after the school expelled him for fraud, arguing that his expulsion was a violation of California’s civil rights act, which explicitly forbids discrimination based on “gender, gender identity and gender expression.” On Friday, Superior Court

Cross-dressing student stings then sues Baptist university after being expelled for lying about his sex

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RIVERSIDE, CA , March 12, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews ) – A 24-year-old man who has been living as a woman has sued California Baptist University for $500,000 in damages after the school  expelled  him for lying on his application paperwork.  Domaine Javier applied to Cal Baptist ’s nursing program in 2011 as a transfer from Riverside City College .  When asked to check a box indicating whether he was male or female on the school’s admission application, he marked ‘female’ despite the fact that he is biologically male and only dresses as a woman. “I didn’t do anything wrong,” Javier told The Press-Enterprise during an interview in 2011. “They said, ‘On your application form you put female.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s how I see myself.’” Cal Baptist discovered Javier’s deception after he appeared on an episode of MTV ’s “ True Life ” reality show, where he revealed that he was only pretending to be female.  The episode in question was called “I’m Passing as Someone I’m Not.”

Brian Brown and Dan Savage Debate

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Gay Sex advice columnist, journalist, and newspaper editor Dan Savage. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) At last it happened! The Great Brian Brown v. Dan Savage Dinner Table Debate actually took place! The tape is now live. You can watch me take on Dan Savage  here . But first you should watch the  MarriageADA interview with Julia Naman , one of the young teens whose faith Dan Savage decided to attack in an event billed as an anti-bullying initiative for middle and high school students . Many of you have already watched our debate and blogged your comments or emailed me. I want to thank you! One viewer wrote: I found Mr. Savage to be articulate and informed, which made Brown's response the more awesome. Brown clearly "won" the debate: He had tradition, logic, natural law, and modesty on his side, and was able to eloquently express this and made Savage look weak and pathetic. I do not dislike Savage, I felt genuine sorrow for him. Brown looked like the Pa