Can a 13 year old girl be a lesbian- and if so, should she go to gym class?

[Dis]

It seems like a young age to be sure of your sexuality. Hell even at that age I probably wasn't even sure I was a heterosexual.

In any case when this girl was in the 8th grade (It is possible she was 14 at the time, many 8th graders are 13 though), she was not allowed to go to gym class because of her sexual orientation made the other students uncomfortable.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/12/17/lesbian.lawsuit/index.html

And in my quest to provide silly polls, I shall think of one...

... edit: The poll centers around lesbians since girls mature faster than boys and it wouldn't be right to lump them together at that age.

[Asher]

This thread title made me spit out my sunflower seeds when I read it.

[Dis]

my job here is done then

[Robert]

I think I've read several times that people can't be sure about their sexual orientation until they're 19.
It might change several times before that age.

But why not go to gym? I'm heterosexual, but I've
been at the gym lessons with girls as well....

[alva]

I thinks , he's refering to the dressing room

[monkspider]

I agree that it seems unlikely that someone would be certain of their sexual orientation at that point. It's certainly quite a bit of a slippery slope to say that she shouldn't go to gym class just because her classmates are uncomfortable. This is segregation, pure and simple.
Heck, most female gym teachers are lesbians! I'm not sure why there is such a conflict over this!

[Imran Siddiqui]

The (alleged) reasonable was that other girls were uncomfortable in the locker room changing in front of her and what not.

[Robert]

I thinks , he's refering to the dressing room

I got that.
But I still don't see the problem.
Does a lesbian girl look different than a heterosexual girl?

[Imran Siddiqui]

No, see the other girls thought the lesbian girl would hit on them.

[Gatekeeper]

Heh. Bill O'Reilly was going off the deep end tonight on young women in high school who were "experimenting" with lesbianism by taking their frienships with fellow females, uh, into the romantic realm (it was mutual, of course).

He pretty much linked the decline of Western civilization to "immoral" things like lesbianism (real or "experimental" in high school. At least that was my impression.

Gatekeeper

[Imran Siddiqui]

And that is why O'Reilly is a wacko... and also why people watch him.. it's like Jerry Springer, only supposedly 'news'.

[monkspider]

I think there is a real social pressure for girls to be either bi or lesbians in this society right now. Thus creating the "lipstick lesbian" phenomena of girls briefly experimenting with lesbian behaviour in their high school or college years.
While I don't think this has any relation to any sort of a decline in morality, this trend is unfortunate in that it creates a breech of trust for hetero males seeking serious romantic relationships. Since they have to be suspicious of what girls their girlfriend are hanging around with, as well as what guys. Creating a two-front war of sorts.

[Gatekeeper]

Bill O'Reilly ticked me off tonight, and makes me wonder how I can even agree with him the 1 time out of 10 that I do now. Believe it or not, he does make sense once in a blue moon or so.

Gatekeeper

[Sikander]

You got this from one of those Teen Lesbo websites that spam didn't you?

[Solly]

Originally posted by monkspider
I think there is a real social pressure for girls to be either bi or lesbians in this society right now. Thus creating the "lipstick lesbian" phenomena of girls briefly experimenting with lesbian behaviour in their high school or college years.
While I don't think this has any relation to any sort of a decline in morality, this trend is unfortunate in that it creates a breech of trust for hetero males seeking serious romantic relationships. Since they have to be suspicious of what girls their girlfriend are hanging around with, as well as what guys. Creating a two-front war of sorts.

I agree. It's also being seen in males as well, especially in left-wing cliques who, desperate to prove their trendiness through "tolerance" and "individuality", announce that that they are bi.

Pretty pathetic really. You're one or the other.