Little Joey from first grade is now little Sally in the second grade.
Via EAG News
The Washoe County, Nevada school district has implemented a new policy that allows transgender students to use the restroom and shower facilities of the opposite sex, and prohibits school staff from discussing students’ transgender status with their parents.
Meanwhile, a draft proposal of a similar policy has surfaced in the Clark County, Nevada school district.
The Clark County draft comes on the heels of a controversy that erupted last year when district officials proposed a new sex education curriculum that was far too explicit for many parents to stomach.
To add to the uproar, district officials reportedly only consulted with a few handpicked residents before floating the proposal.
The resulting protest forced the Las Vegas-based district to cancel any plans to implement the new sex ed curriculum any time soon.
But the behind-the-scenes maneuvering is apparently ongoing. The draft document for a new policy regarding transgender students, seemingly meant to be distributed exclusively among school staff, leaked out last last year.
In Clark County the policy is apparently still in the consideration stages. EAGnews attempted to contact the district for comment, but school officials only forwarded a statement referring to an existing policy addressing student bullying. They neither acknowledged nor denied the existence of the draft policy.[…]
he new policy in Washoe County, and the proposed policy in Clark County, have outraged Karen England, executive director of the Capitol Resources Institute, a California-based non-profit that’s also active in Nevada.[…]
England believes the transgender policies are the result of a progressive social/political agenda within public schools that goes beyond tolerance.
“It’s way beyond tolerance,” she said. “It’s a matter of bullying kids who don’t want the opposite gender in their restrooms, like there’s something wrong with them for feeling that way.
“This will also be confusing for some kids. We’re going to have second graders being told that they may not really be the gender of their birth. The message is going to be ‘You have to figure out what you really are – a boy or a girl – and that’s going to confuse and upset a lot of kids who aren’t even thinking about this issue.”
England said, as far as she knows, the Washoe County school district is the first in Nevada to adopt the new transgender policy.