I just got an email from a good friend who teaches at a junior high school in Maryland (8th-12th grade). They must now bow to "gender fluidity", i.e., the concept that one day you can wake up and feel like a boy, and the next day wake up and feel like a girl.
Some of the guidelines they must now follow include:
1. Transgender students may now use the bathroom of their choice, even if a private, gender-neutral bathroom has been provided.
2. The student must be called by name of choice and gender of choice.
3. On a field trip involving an overnight stay in a dormitory or cabin, the transgender student can stay in the dormitory or cabin of their choice.
4. Since a student's sexual orientation and gender identification is confidential, the parents of the other students in the cabin or dormitory do not need to be notified because it would be "a breach of confidentiality."
5. In gym locker rooms, the transgender student can use the locker room of his or her choice.
6. If another student has an objection to a transgender student in his or her locker room or cabin or dormitory, that student will be moved to another location. If there are 20 other students who object, and just one transgender student who wants to stay in the bathroom, locker room, dormitory or cabin of his or her choice, the 20 will be moved. In other words, it is easier to move the one transgender student, but the school will not do that because "it isn't fair."
7. If there are students who lie about their "gender identification" and want to use the bathroom of the opposite sex because they want a free peep show, that type of issue will be handled on a case-by-case basis. Because, said the guidance counselor, "who would want to do that?" (Evidently she does not know teenagers very well.)
I know the country will sink further into the cesspool, but to see this hit the junior high schools is patently ridiculous.
Some of the guidelines they must now follow include:
1. Transgender students may now use the bathroom of their choice, even if a private, gender-neutral bathroom has been provided.
2. The student must be called by name of choice and gender of choice.
3. On a field trip involving an overnight stay in a dormitory or cabin, the transgender student can stay in the dormitory or cabin of their choice.
4. Since a student's sexual orientation and gender identification is confidential, the parents of the other students in the cabin or dormitory do not need to be notified because it would be "a breach of confidentiality."
5. In gym locker rooms, the transgender student can use the locker room of his or her choice.
6. If another student has an objection to a transgender student in his or her locker room or cabin or dormitory, that student will be moved to another location. If there are 20 other students who object, and just one transgender student who wants to stay in the bathroom, locker room, dormitory or cabin of his or her choice, the 20 will be moved. In other words, it is easier to move the one transgender student, but the school will not do that because "it isn't fair."
7. If there are students who lie about their "gender identification" and want to use the bathroom of the opposite sex because they want a free peep show, that type of issue will be handled on a case-by-case basis. Because, said the guidance counselor, "who would want to do that?" (Evidently she does not know teenagers very well.)
I know the country will sink further into the cesspool, but to see this hit the junior high schools is patently ridiculous.