But since December, school officials have told her parents she can no longer use the female facilities and ordered her to use the boys' or nurse's bathroom. "We want Coy to have the same educational opportunities as every other Colorado student," said Kathryn Mathis, Coy's mother. "Her school should not be singling her out for mistreatment just because she is transgender."
Coy's parents worry that the school's policy is setting their child up for stigma and bullying. Now Jeremy and Kathryn Mathis, with the help of the Transgender Legal and Defense Education Fund (TLDEF), have filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division on behalf of Coy, alleging that the school has violated her rights. Since Christmas vacation, Coy has been homeschooled.
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"We want Coy to return to school to be with her teachers, her friends, and her siblings, but we are afraid to send her back until we know that the school is going to treat her fairly. She is still just 6-years-old, and we do not want one of our daughter's earliest experiences to be our community telling her she's not good enough," said Kathryn Mathis.
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She is still just 6-years-old, and we do not want one of our daughter's earliest experiences to be our community telling her she's not good enough," said Kathryn Mathis......
Too late they already did.
The story is around the internet. Nobody at the school is saying 'she's not good enough' they're simply saying that 'she' is actually a boy, and that it's time to think about the future.
And what happens at puberty.
My own feeling is that gendered toilets are nonsense, and that if we made a lot less fuss about the 'danger' of kids seeing genitalia, the world would be a better place.
In scandinavia, it's not uncommon to see naked people, adults and children at the beach, at the sauna etcetera. There's no drama, nobody will be scarred for life by seeing other people naked.
And if we could think a little more like that, then perhaps there'd be no problem with a little boy using the same toilets as the girls.
If the school says it's okay, then is everybody happy with mixed changing rooms and showers?
As a community, can the school and parents and children make that societal change to accepting that children with differing genitalia change together?
That's what the story's about, not whether the school's being mean to a six-year-old.
They can give her hormones before she goes into puberty, which would stop her male parts from developing further, facial hair from sprouting and the voice from deepening.
She's six. Puberty is not the issue here.
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