Parents Pull Child from School over Transgender Bathroom Choice [+video]
By Glen Beeby. Two Boise parents said they pulled their student from school at South Junior High after another student, who is transgender, was allowed to use the girls bathroom.
Pauline Adams and Jacob Smith were upset when they found out from their daughter last week that a transgender student was allowed to choose the bathroom [the boy dressing as a girl] preferred.
The student was born a boy, but identifies and dresses as a girl.
Smith said he doesn’t feel it’s appropriate for kids to be able to choose at that age.
“We would not allow our child to share a restroom simultaneously at home so why would we be OK with it at school,” Smith said. (Read more from “Parents Pull Child from School over Transgender Bathroom Choice [+video]” HERE)
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Woman Raised by Lesbian Couple: ‘I Ached Every Day for a Dad’
By Michael W. Chapman. Heather Barwick, who was raised by her mother and her mother’s lesbian partner, wrote in an essay this week that same-sex “marriage” is not the same as normal marriage between a man and a woman, that the traditional family is best, and that while growing up she “ached every day for a dad.”
Barwick, who is 31 now, married, and has four children, said that “same-sex marriage and parenting withholds either a mother or father from a child while telling him or her that it doesn’t matter. That it’s all the same. But it’s not.”
“A lot of us, a lot of your kids, are hurting,” wrote Barwick in her essay for The Federalist website. “My father’s absence created a huge hole in me, and I ached every day for a dad. I loved my mom’s partner, but another mom could never have replaced the father I lost.”
“I grew up surrounded by women who said they didn’t need or want a man,” said Barwick. “Yet, as a little girl, I so desperately wanted a daddy. It is a strange and confusing thing to walk around with this deep-down unquenchable ache for a father, for a man, in a community that says that men are unnecessary.” (Read more from this story HERE)
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