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Male and female He created them: gender is not a choice

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( Zenit.org ) – November 2012 marked the first time gender identity was included as a specific protected classification in a United Nations General Assembly anti-discrimination resolution. This wording is significant because it elevates gender identity to the same level as race, creed, religion and sexual orientation. Yet this term is ambiguous and there is no clear agreement as to what discrimination on the basis of gender identity means. Bringing such uncertainty into the language of international law opens the door for broad assertions of rights for those who claim to be “transgendered.” In its broadest, most widely agreed upon sense, discrimination means to single out a person or group for unfair or unjust treatment. The United Nations declared that no one should be subject to summary execution or extrajudicial killings on the basis of race, creed, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. Certainly, no one advocates that those with a gender identity disorder should be ...

50-year-old transsexual ‘woman’ makes college basketball debut: video

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SAN PABLO, CA, December 10, 2012, – Gabrielle Ludwig is not like any other woman on the basketball courts, or in the locker rooms , in Santa Clara Community College’s junior team. Gabrielle is a foot taller than every other player and has significantly more upper body strength. Thats because the 50-year-old player was born  Robert John Ludwig,  a man. He still bears the tattoos of his service in Operation Desert Storm . This turn at college basketball is his second. His first stint in 1980 was as a man at Nassau Community College . Robert John "Gabrielle" Ludwig with his teammates. After his sex change operation this summer he petitioned to change his birth certificate’s sex from male to female. That edit allowed his previous sports history to be wiped off his record. Ludwig is now eligible to play for two full years. Even at twice his opponents’ age, Ludwig cuts an imposing figure at 6’8” and 220 pounds, a fact not lost on his coach – or ...

Rights talk run amok: the supremacy of the individual

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November 10, 2012 (Breakpoint.org) - Colleen Francis made himself right at home in the locker room at Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington . The forty-five year-old student showered, used the sauna and walked around naked in front of the other people using those facilities. Now if you’re having trouble squaring the name “Colleen” with the male pronoun “himself,” you’re not the only one. Those present in the locker room also had trouble with the combination that the locker room in question was the women’s room and “Colleen” is anatomically a male. Thus when he showers, sits in the sauna, and walks around naked, Francis is exposing himself not only to his fellow students but students from local high schools and families who also use the college’s swimming pool and locker room. Thus, among the females he has exposed himself to are minors, some as young as six. If you’re wondering, “Why doesn’t someone stop Francis,” well, they tried to, and that’s when the story becam...

‘Transgender’ man may continue using girls’ locker room, says college

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OLYMPIA, WA , November 9, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A Washington state college has decided it will not prevent a 45-year-old man from lounging naked in a women’s locker room , in an area frequented by girls as young as six. "Colleen Francis." The 45-year-old man, who calls himself Colleen Francis, presents himself as a transgender “female.” Evergreen State College shares its locker room with Capital High School , Olympia High School , the Evergreen Swim Club, and Aquatics Academy. The latter has students as young as six. On September 26, teenage girls on a high school swim team were using the facilities when they saw “Colleen” Francis exposing male genitalia through the glass window in a sauna. According to the  police report  an eyewitness stated, “There were girls 6 to 18 years of age and they were not used to seeing individuals in situations like this.”  Later that week, the mother of one of the girls as well as their coach contacted the police, o...