Locker rooms based on physical traits

I have been following the debate between High School District 211 and the US Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.

According to the OCR, District 211 has violated Title IX guidelines by not allowing a male that identifies with the female sex the use of the girls locker room. If I am not mistaken, Title IX bars discrimination based on sex, not sexual identification.

If you have the physical characteristics, you're a male until you have the operation, take the hormones and physically become a female. The same holds true for those born with the physical characteristics of a female.

I do have sympathy for those that feel they are trapped in the wrong body, but that situation does not give them the right to invade the privacy of the rest of the opposite-sex students in the schools.

From what I understand, this individual was given private space within the girls locker room to change and shower after class. That should be enough to satisfy this individual that is not a female but just "identifies" as one.

Next, the OCR will want the males that identify with the female sex to play on the women's sports teams, not quite a fair thing to do.

In my opinion if you have boy parts, you dress in the boys locker room, and vice versa for the people with girl parts.

Ken Wuestenfeld

Elk Grove Village