Sarah Parshall Perry, Thomas Jipping
If gender activists have their way, every school district in America will have policies that cater to students’ feelings about gender identity and exclude parents from even finding out. More than 11.5 million students already attend 20,000 schools with these policies. If the Biden administration had its way, Georgia schools would soon join them.
Look at a few typical policies from Virginia. The Arlington County Public School policy defines gender identity as “one’s sense of self as male, female, or an alternative gender.” These policies assume that every student, regardless of age, has this “sense of self” and require that any expression of it be taken at face value, treated as conclusive, and drive a host of other policies.
The Chesapeake Public Schools policy requires access to facilities, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, “that correspond to a student’s gender identity.” Students may “participate in any co-curricular or extracurricular activity,” dress, and have the “right to be addressed in class and in the school building” consistent with their gender identity. The First Amendment or privacy rights of other students and teachers be hanged.
The Fairfax County Public Schools policy provides that students be assigned “to a room consistent with the student’s gender identity” during activities that require “students to be accommodated overnight.” No word on what to do about students uncomfortable with being paired with an opposite-sex roommate.
The Hampton City Schools policy states that it has “no affirmative legal duty to inform parents of the student’s gender identity choice.” In other words, parents are shut out unless the student gives permission.
The upshot of these policies is that Johnny may need his parents’ permission to go to the zoo with his class, but the parents often need Johnny’s permission to know about him undressing in the girls’ locker room.
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https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/gender-activists-are-aiming-cut-georgia-parents-out