UPDATED 16:40:54 UTC Tuesday, November 19, 2019
US — Chicago, Illinois. Last week, a man won his two-year battle to change with teen girls in the school locker room.
In November 2017, Nova Maday, an 18-year-old man attending Palatine High School sued Township High School District 211 for the legal right to change in the locker room alongside high school girls and young women.
Palatine High School had provided Mr Maday a private stall in which to change, but the young man felt that the arrangement indicated his transgender identity to other students, which he claimed to be an embarrassing “violation of my privacy.”
Calling it “a balancing act of all balancing acts,” a Cook County judge ruled against Mr Maday in January 2018, finding that Illinois state’s Human Rights Act only requires that he be given access to school facilities.
District 211 Superintendent Daniel Cates had praised the judge’s decision for upholding the “important balance” the district had already established for transgender students while simultaneously “safeguarding student privacy.” The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois, which is representing Mr Maday, said the organization was “extremely disappointed in the judge’s ruling for Nova and for her dignity not to be fully recognized as the girl that she is.”
In July 2019, Mr Maday’s lawsuit received what Ed Yohnka, spokesperson for the ACLU, declared a bolster when an Illinois HRC ruled in favor of a female student who had sued Lake Park Community High School District 108 in Roselle over a policy requiring her to change behind a privacy curtain while accessing the boys’ locker room. The girl identifies as a boy. “[Mandating] that the [former student] use a privacy curtain when changing clothes in the boys’ locker room is an adverse act and subjects him to different terms and conditions than similarly situated non-transgender males,” the commission found.
“We believe that the Circuit Court will find the commission’s decision to be very persuasive,” Mr Yohnka had said at the time, predicting that the decision put the weight of the state government behind Mr Maday, and he stood a good chance of winning.
On November 14, 2019, Mr Yohnka’s prediction came true. Mr Maday celebrated and received a hug from Mr Yohnka shortly after High School District 211 board members voted 5-2 to allow transgender students to access the locker rooms of the other sex without necessity of using privacy stalls.
Kim Cavill, a District 211 board member and sex education teacher who tweets as @sexposparenting on Twitter, said, “Discrimination is never an acceptable compromise.”
Julia Burca, a high school girl who was interviewed on camera following the decision, fought back tears. “I feel very uncomfortable,” she said, noting that she is on the swim team and gets completely naked in the locker room several times a day. “I understand that the board has an obligation to all students, but I was hoping they would go about it in a different way that would accommodate students such as myself.”
In recent months, the ACLU of Illinois has also successfully fought to place male inmates who identify as transgender in women’s prison.
In June 2016, current and future students of District 211 and their parents filed a lawsuit challenging the policy that allowed students to change in locker rooms of the opposite sex. District Court Judge Jorge Luis Alonso ruled against the parents in April 2019, finding that students do not have a “visual right to privacy” over their “unclothed or partially clothed bodies.”
ACTION: Those who wish to make their voice heard on the issue of mixed-sex locker rooms in Illinois public schools may use the contact information directly below.
Twitter: ChiPubSchools
State Superintendent
Dr. Carmen I. Ayala
100 N. 1st Street, Springfield, IL 62777
Phone: 866-262-6663
Phone: 217-782-4321
Email form: http://webprod1.isbe.net/contactisbe/
Superintendent of Township High School District 211
Dr. Daniel E. Cates
Phone: 847-755-6610
Email: [email protected]
Email form: https://adc.d211.info/admin-home/
UPDATE 16:40:54 UTC Tuesday, November 19, 2019: Case results
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A Cook County judge Thursday denied a request by a transgender student for equal access to the girls’ locker room at Palatine High School, ruling that state law only requires she be given access.
I was sexually assaulted by a group of high school boys when I participated in a co-ed CHRISTIAN youth camp when I was just 14. The idea that they are all “just kids” so the girls aren’t really under any threat is absurd. I am so disgusted by this idiocy.
“…the youth felt that the arrangement indicated to the other students that he is transgender, which he considered an embarrassing “violation of my privacy.”
What about the “embarrassing violation of privacy” of the GIRLS??? In every case, these psychotic male creeps are offered a safe place to change by themselves, but they are too arrogant and selfish to accept it, and insist on foisting themselves on vulnerable girls. If that isn’t the mindset of an entitled male predator, what is?
I’m so sorry to hear what happened to you.
We are not the same. We never will be. It’s time to “Walk away” from anything that dishonors us.
Jennifer Lee, yes, exactly. I, too, am so sorry that happened to you. Everyone knows young teen boys, and even younger, can be sexual predators. It sickens me how people look the other way and side with them.
We all need to write or call the contacts Diana has provided, so that we’re not just feeling like victims, but succeeding.
I wonder what appeals there are, and if she has an attorney to handle those appeals.
The bit about “embarrassing violation of privacy” is insane…
Don’t these idiot judges realize that “revealing his transgender identity” is still going to happen, but now on his preferred terms; when he’s showing sausage in the female change rooms!!?!
It’s time for women and girls to stop waiting on the sidelines to see how men will allow other men to disrespect and violate our right to privacy.
I feel it’s time we “Walkaway” for every institution and organization that does not honor us.
Our needs now have to be based upon our biology with exclusion to all else.
When it comes to sports, women and girls should be granted the ” menses handicap” against trans competition, etc, etc, etc.
Any woman that feels “we are all equal” is welcome to disrobe in front of men.
It may be the most attention some women will ever get.
We must write or call to speak up and fight all such decisions, because every precedent is harmful to our rights. Thank you, Diana, for reporting on these cases and providing us with the contact info to do so.
How can a school district board override the decision of a county judge, “finding that Illinois state’s Human Rights Act only requires that he be given access to school facilities”? That is wrong. I feel sorry for these girls. So many people, including school board members, have drunk the trans Kool-Aid.
If only the “trans Kool-aid” had the same effect as the origin of the term…
Judge Jorge Luis Alonso is a real piece of work. His ruling goes against numerous other district and circuit court decisions finding that people have a right to bodily privacy, and that means the right not to be involuntarily exposed. In Lee v Downs, the 4th Circuit concluded that female inmates have a right not to be strip-searched by male guards. If that would apply to female inmates, it would certainly apply to female high school students. Several other circuit courts have likewise ruled.
The Illinois HRC ruling is not the least bit surprising. Those who make up the human rights tribunals are rookies and ideologues, with little or no legal training,
What about young people’s rights, or do they not matter anymore? The fact young people are tearful and distressed should matter to adults.
According to this transgender’s (whose name is Nova Maday) twitter account https://twitter.com/novafox161?lang=en
he is supposedly engaged to a woman named Dannie Walker https://twitter.com/thedanniewalker
So this guy is attracted to girls, and he probably enjoyed seeing them naked in the locker room that he forcibly forced himself in.
That transgender flat-out looks like a sex offender. It won’t surprise me if someday he gets in trouble for committing sexual assault. He does look like a pedophile.
This dude Maday threatened to sue me if I didn’t pay him for posting his Twitter selfie here. Back in summer 2021, he had lawyers harass me for months, LOL! I wanted so badly to tell him that his own mother wouldn’t pay a nickel for his poorly taken, low-quality selfie, much less the (I think) $500 he was demanding from me – but I decided not to go back and forth with these people, as I think people should sue me if they wish to do so. Delusions abound in these little heads.
That guy is crazy. He obviously has issues.
Look at the way he acts in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZu09sO0Bz4
The fact that the guy thinks he can sue someone just because they used his twitter selfie (which was on a public website) shows how delusional and mentally ill he is. Once you post something on a public website (or any website for that matter), it’s out there on the internet and anyone could use it (even if they are using it to make fun of you).
People like that guy piss me off who act so entitled and wants the world to always kiss their ass.
Also, it wouldn’t surprise me if that guy lied about being engaged and made that twitter account himself, so he seems less like an incel neckbeard (which that’s what he looks and acts like).
Many transgender people (like this pig) are hypocritical. He doesn’t feel comfortable changing with boys because he identifies as a girl but has no problem with girls being uncomfortable with getting naked and changing around him (despite the fact that he still has a penis).
Here’s one of the things that this hypocritical freak said: “I don’t want anyone else to go through what I went through,” Maday said. It’s just a win. It really is. It’s a huge win for us. It’s something we’ve been fighting for for years and other students have been fighting for for years, and to see this finally happening is just huge and exciting.
Here’s a video of this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZu09sO0Bz4
Does anyone else think this guy is creepy?
I could see him saying he is transgender just so he could see naked girls in the dressing room. There have been many guys (Jessica Yaniv and Chris Chan are examples) to have done that. He did say that he genuinely believes there is nothing different about him from other girls.
So that would indicate that he’s not planning to have a sex change operation or take any hormones. So to me, that would be an indication that he is just doing this so he could see naked girls. Sadly, people care more about the welfare of men who say they are women than they do about actual biological women.
Nova Maday does give off Jessica Yaniv and Chris Chan vibes.
Here’s a quote from this article https://www.asumag.com/facilities-management/article/20857034/lawsuit-over-illinois-districts-transgender-policy-is-dropped
Though it sided with District 211 on the federal case, the ACLU continues to represent former student Nova Maday in a state lawsuit against the district. The suit contends that District 211’s policy is restrictive and discriminatory.
“Students who are transgender have never been a threat to anyone in this school or elsewhere,” Knight says. “This moment is an opportunity for District 211 to reject this cruelty and become a model for tolerance and humane treatment for all students, including those who are transgender.”
That’s bull since a couple of months ago, two girls were raped by a transgender at two different schools, and the schools tried to cover it up. Here’s an article about it:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/loudoun-county-school-district-breaks-silence-on-transgender-sexual-assault-case/
Heck, yes. Of course, we’re all socialised to “Not judge a book by it’s cover!” and to “Give people a chance”, which is all very well when they’re not trying (and succeeding) to change the very legislation that keeps approximately half the population significantly safer and retains just a little of their dignity as human beings while they are in a state of at least partial undress and thus hamstrung in contrast to those who belong to the other sex class.
Asking those who are male to have the basic decency to only undress and relieve themselves in front of other males is neither “cruel” nor “intolerant” and it’s certainly not a manifestation of “hatred”.
Indeed, the men who press for the dissolution of all safeguarding and the women who advocate for them in the face of thousands of years worth of evidence as to the necessity of said safeguarding are the ones who I consider to be “hateful”. I’m sure that this guy’s mother genuinely thinks that he can do no wrong and that she would much rather pretend to believe that he’s somehow really a woman who was “born into the wrong body” (snort!) than the obvious truth, which is that he comes across as an easily excited and nascent sex offender.
I understand that like all of these guys, the school had already provided a safe, single occupancy toilet and place for him in which to get changed, but it was deemed by him and the “pro-trans” (aka anti-women and girls) organisation backing him to be insufficient. He’s not some clearly effeminate young gay man who might unfortunately inspire homophobic bullying and even violence from certain other young men, and even if that were the case – the answer would still not be to reduce female students to mere human shields!
Sadly however, I understand that all public schools in the Chicago area have now abolished female-only public accommodations including restrooms on the sayso of men in dresses and women like this creep’s mother.
Nova Maday does seem like a huge creep and pervert, and he’s probably one of those creepy entitled men who identify as lesbian women who will call a biological lesbian woman a bigot just for not wanting to date him (despite the fact that most lesbian women are only attracted to biological women and the fact that no one is obligated to date someone who they don’t want to date).
Here’s a link to a YouTube video about how many lesbian women are being called bigots for not wanting to date transgender women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md1sLfjaPdo
I personally known men who are just horny/desperate/fetishist that say they transwomen in order to get with lesbians. Men like those are disgusting, and they are very misogynistic.
It wouldn’t surprise me if someday in the future, Nova Maday does end up in jail for sexually assaulting someone.