mark francis
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Snopes Fact-Checker: Deception is thy name.
Here is one of many examples: Did an Illinois judge rule against school girls by denying them privacy rights against biological males in their shower rooms? Yes. Did Scopes agree? No, Scopes called the true claim a lie.
Claim:
In 2019, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that girls in an Illinois school district "must shower with boys" and had no right to privacy.
Rating:
No, the claim is not false, as the following facts from the article show.
Here is one of many examples: Did an Illinois judge rule against school girls by denying them privacy rights against biological males in their shower rooms? Yes. Did Scopes agree? No, Scopes called the true claim a lie.
Claim:
In 2019, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that girls in an Illinois school district "must shower with boys" and had no right to privacy.
Rating:
No, the claim is not false, as the following facts from the article show.
- Alonso dismissed the group's claim that the locker room policy had violated the girls' right to "bodily privacy." The judge explained that U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence acknowledged that individuals have due process rights against several kinds of interference from the state — for example, the right to marry, to have children, to use contraception, to have an abortion. Federal courts have also recognized "bodily integrity" as part of due process, for example the right to refuse unwanted medical treatment. However, as Alonso noted, "So far, the right not to be seen unclothed by the opposite sex is not on the Supreme Court’s list."
- Alonso dismissed the group's claim that the locker room policy had violated the parents' constitutionally protected right to direct their children's education, because it denied them the ability to "determine whether their children will be exposed to opposite-sex children in restrooms and locker rooms." Alonso concluded that this was a stretch, based on existing federal and Supreme Court precedent. He wrote: "To be sure, the compelled affirmation [locker room] policy might undercut that teaching, but plaintiffs have cited no case that suggests the right to direct education includes a right not to have their teachings undermined by public school (beyond, of course, the right to choose private school instead)."
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