A public charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the site
of a continuing debate revolving around the “needs” of transgender and
gender-nonconforming students. The controversy began when the parents of a 5-year-old child, who they tout as gender-nonconforming, asked Nova Classical
Academy to help ensure their student wasn’t being bullied.
Full
stop. Please.
First off, they are
implying that the school would otherwise allow 5-year-old children in
its charge to be bullied. That is ludicrous. Secondly, no 5-year old knows if
they really are “transgender” or “gender-nonconforming.” They may be curious,
or want to play act, or even feel like it might be cool to be the other sex or
no sex- or whatever- for awhile. And these feelings certainly aren’t of a
sexual relations nature at this point. They simply may not know what their
“identity” is at that age and adults that direct them otherwise are complicit
in a tragic and unnecessary social experiment.
That
didn’t stop the school from reacting- dramatically overreacting in fact- to that
one set of parents. When parents of
other students heard that faculty members had been talking with children about
such bullying and reading a book called
“Jacob’s New Dress,” many were understandably upset. Kids are sponges at
that age, and these are their teachers.
The reading of that book without input from- or even notification of- the
students’ parents is indoctrination not education.
Eventually,
the school’s board got involved and outside groups intervened. The non-profit
group “Gender Justice” is working with the family of the lone allegedly
gender-nonconforming student.
The St. Paul Public Schools approved a gender
inclusion policy last March, which states that staff in the school district
will respect students’ gender identity and provide them with access to
facilities that best align with that
identity, including bathrooms. The Minnesota Family Council, a Christian
organization based in nearby Minneapolis, put out a news release claiming that
nearly 400 parents have signed a petition opposing mixed-sex bathrooms and that
several have pulled their students out of Nova or off its waiting list. Nova has not yet adopted the St. Paul Public Schools’
inclusion policy and hasn’t made any final decisions regarding who can use
which bathrooms. Ali Yocom, co-chair of a support group called “Transforming
Families,” says the focus on bathrooms is simply a “scare tactic.” She also
opined “It’s so sad that there are so many adults out there that are willing to
go to great lengths to make this kid’s experience more difficult.”
Ali, I
beg to differ.
It’s so sad that there are two adults out there (not counting Ali)
that are willing to go to great lengths to make all these kids’- and their parents’- experiences more difficult. Their own kid would have been just fine-
better off, in fact- without their attempt to make the rest of the
world tremble before their titanic tolerance and insurmountable inclusivity.
The political agenda behind this push is easily seen in the name of the
“support group,” Transforming
Families. (Not Helping Families, Family Choice, Gender Choice For Families or
Gender Neutral Family Aid, for example).
There
has been an awful lot of "transforming" going on in the Obama Years. None of it beneficial.
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