Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-16277621-20130823040543/@comment-16502426-20130927034541

174.108.90.107 wrote: It's interesting to note that Episode 11 ALSO proved that whatever rights fauna may be lacking, they do have the right to attend Beacon and become hunters/huntresses... that begs the question, why is Blake hiding her identity if she IS a faunus?

You can see that certain people do treat fauna pretty badly, but others (like Yang, Pyrrha, everyone else at the table) was disgusted with Cardin's behavior and sympathetic towards Velvet. Blake just seemed very pissed off and also suggested she had witnessed this kind of behavior before. I think they "have rights", but not everyone acts accordingly. Just like there have been times (including currently to a degree) where some people have accepted dark-skinned people as perfectly normal, at the same time as others have not.

My guess is that Faunus rights are in writing only at this point. A lot of people still deny them any form of peace, and even some who are nice don't necessarily frown upon those who are jerks.

It may even be early enough in their civil rights movement that not all schools accept Faunus students. Beacon could just be because Ozpin is a nice, level-headed guy.