A few things to clarify: (1) transgender is not about sexuality, it's about gender (M/F). (2) transgender is not an identity, it's a process. (3) changing one's sex/gender is a medical journey, one involving hormones which are steroids, not psych meds (4) 18 other nations already have open transgender enlistments (5) transgender enlistees are not about 1/2 and 1/2 as in hybrid; they have discarded birth sex for their identified sex. (6) transgender enlistees include transmales as well.

All of the other wrinkles can be worked out, as they have been elsewhere.

Your highest honor Chief Wonkess, I humbly submit a link to my far-too-long perhaps wonkadoodle doo in response to Mr. Cruz Cruz...a bigot hiding behind the cruz (cross in Spanish)....and hereby request to be an honorary Wonkette...because I absolutely adore your humorous touch to current events.

yes!

http://havifromojavi.wordpress.com/category/trans... Michigan is however covered under the US Dept of Education for example: http://www.nclrights.org/cases-and-policy/cases-a...

http://wp.me/p1hX86-9T My God I've never seen so many idiotic comments. Here's a link to set you all straight. It's called 20+ myths about AB 1266.

I am Christian and he is a nutball Christian for sure

Education code and federal law (since 1964 but only now enforced--Title VII Civil Rights Act) stand behind this student, despite those who continue to claim she is a boy. Medical legitimacy stands behind this student as well, which is the basis for courts and government entities granting legal document updating to reflect a sex change.

Although parents are and should be, as those of us who are parents, concerned for student safety, what has transpired since this student was outed by apparently a scorn parent begs for legal accountability. Although many falsely claim that she (student) has committed privacy violations, she apparently has not. The parent who outed the child should be held accountable for revealing private medical information as well (gender transitions are under the care of an M.D.) What has happened to her is at least public bullying and at worst criminally-enforceable threats.

Those who are allied against this child, by being party to perpetuating a hoax share no less culpability. It is patently un-American to foster hate and discontent by character defamation such that it clashes with civil law. It was also very telling that no apology was extended to the student by those who mis-aligned her and that the insulting redefinition of "privacy" to include "harassment" was further evidence of an acute lack of institutional integrity.

Furthermore, misconduct in school, including private areas is absolutely nothing new. Misbehavior by a student is a character flaw, not a gender flaw. Transgender students are still school-age students and no less flawed. The fact that the groups behind the now-proven-false public bullying (story) attempted to tie "reported misbehavior" to the student's gender was very telling of its ulterior anti-trans motives.

the entire argument is that transgender girls are still boys. Although they are not fully female (takes years) they are leaving "boyhood" behind.

***this is long but very worth reading**

In California, and most other states, many have been and continue to be arrested by fulfilling two and only two elements: (1) communicating or implying a threat (2) such that the recipient of the threat is in fear of his or her life. That's it. Nothing else. [This story has the historical potential (depending on outcome) of finally turning the tide against transgender hatred in America].

We are wired to disagree, if only because different eyes see the same thing differently, much more when we interject our own biases that lead to subjective interpretations. This will always be. Within civilized societies, governments are instituted so that the "majority rule", else life would be an endless loop of conflict.

Disagreements are supposed to be heated, passionate, and often even rude. What the Fox News story, now considered to have no merit, reveals is that some issues in America are so polarized that for too many, beyond heated and rancorous debate lies the ultimate option: the threat of violence, even on schoolchildren.

We who have a transgender history have been victimized far too long and paid a price far too high. We have read the comments made by many advocating for gory violence against this child, who has committed no deed even near worthy of violent reciprocation. Our government, however flawed, is worthy of being lauded and highly commended for stepping up in 2013 on behalf of transgender equal rights, in many venues.

I call upon our government to perform a deep inquiry on those who publicly advocated "slicing and dicing" the transgender child in Florence High School in Colorado. The medium (the internet) traverses state boundaries and thus is inter-jurisdictional. The perpetrators are those that made the threats, direct or implied. They are the ones that plant the seeds of violent hatred today in the minds of those who will take take transgender lives---tomorrow.

They have spoken loud and clear---in print. If this child in Colorado fears for her life, the two elements of the "communicating a threat" statute have been satisfied. I should know. Having served in California public safety in state and county government, in addition to military police in the AF, academy training included such laws that I was tasked to enforce. It is time to hold those who advocate violence on transgender children and adults accountable---lives are at stake, not because we say so, but because they (violent persons) say so.

so what part of this law takes effect on July 2014?