It's those fake and completely content in their bigotry smiles that drive me batty. Story out of Emmaus, Pennsylvania:
A female cisgender student in Pennsylvania told school officials she will be discriminated against if her high school complies with an Obama administration guideline allowing transgender students to use restrooms and changing rooms that correspond with their gender identity.
Sigourney Coyle, who is set to enter ninth grade at Emmaus High School this year, told an East Penn School Board on Monday she did not want to undress in the same changing room as transgender students for religious reasons.
After the White House issued the guideline, Sigourney Coyle began sitting out of her middle school gym class because she did not feel comfortable using a changing room that transgender students could also use.
Aryn Coyle did not immediately return requests for comment from BuzzFeed News, but wrote on Facebook — in a post that opened with “the battle begins” — that she had tried to send her daughter to school “with a letter exempting her from gym class indefinitely based on our religious beliefs.”
As Sigourney Coyle prepares to now enter high school, she told the school board she fears she will not be able to complete the mandatory gym classes required to graduate.
The teenager told the school board meeting that an Emmaus High School official had given her permission to take gym class in the summer in a bid to better accommodate her.
Although Aryn Coyle wrote on Facebook on Sunday that her daughter was “thrilled” with the development, she later told the Morning Call this was a “band-aid” solution. Cont.
Story from - BuzzFeed News
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