Student walkout

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids shouldn’t be “experimenting” with gender identity at school and teachers shouldn’t be encouraging it. School is for academics. Let’s keep the focus where it needs to be.

Teachers aren't "encouraging" anything related to gender identity other than respect for all.

A teacher willingly calling a child by the name that child states is preferred is not encouraging exploration of gender identity; it is respect.

-- If William goes by "Quinn" because he happens to be William V and "Quinn" is close to "quint," meaning "five," the teacher should call him "Quinn," and should not ask why he goes by Quinn.

-- If Hye Min goes by "Kristin" because she is embarrassed that her given name, in English, sounds similar to a part of anatomy, the teacher should call her "Kristin," and should not ask why she chooses to be called Kristin.

-- If Carson wants to go by their middle name-- Lee-- at school because there are two other Carsons in class, the teacher should call that student "Lee" and should not ask why "Lee" is the preferred name.

-- If Quoc asks to be called "Joey" because he worries that his legal name, in English, sounds like a vulgar word for anatomy, the teacher should call him "Joey."

-- If Juan wants to go by "Jan" at school, the teacher should call them "Jan."

-- If Leslie wants to be called "Les," the teacher should use the name "Les" when referring to that child.

-- If Alexander and Alexandra both go by "Alex," the teacher should call them both "Alex."

-- If Richard goes by "Skip," the teacher should call him "Skip."

I cannot imagine that there is any teacher out there stating "Let's explore our gender identity" in class, nor can I imagine that any teacher is asking students to explain why they use a nickname or alternative name. Instead, most (if not all) teachers ask students on the first day, "Please correct me if I am mispronouncing your name or if you go by something other than the name on my official roster." What could possibly be wrong with that? That is respectful. It is not political, nor is it taking power away from parents.

Secondary teachers have 130-200 students each, and it is likely that close to half of those children use a nickname or alternative name (For example,, many students from East Asia or Southeast Asia choose to use an "American" name at school.) It is not feasible to go check the file of every student who asks to be called a different name to see if the parents approve of that name choice.

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

These "statistics" are purely fabricated. Name it, cite it, or STFU with putting them forth like they are valid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

These "statistics" are purely fabricated. Name it, cite it, or STFU with putting them forth like they are valid.

Talk to any middle school kid or middle school teacher in fcps.

They will confirm that many if not most of the middle school girls are going by any gender but girl.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

It's a tough balance and may in fact be out of balance. When so much attention is constantly focused on the "marginalized" (consider the signs that so many teachers put outside their classrooms touting how every set of kids but straight white kids were welcome in their classrooms), the so-called marginalized start to be seen as as the desirable norm, and kids who naturally want to fit in gravitate towards the new norm.

I think there is a lot of indoctrination going on too from fcps.

At our middle school, learning seminar is averaging at least one dedicated transgender or gender identity lesson each week.

Even if you are pro trans issues, giving the 12 to 14 year olds a weekly lesson extolling all of the virtues of changing your identity and gender identity activism is a bit much and definitely crosses into indoctrination, and is probably fueling much of this.

I am certain lessons like this are district wide in the middle schools and not just limited to our middle school.

I teach middle school. We have not had any lessons about gender identity other than a single slide in the SR&R lesson, which mentioned that students have a right to be called by the name they choose.

I have a hard time believing that your middle school has had at least one dedicated lesson per week about gender identity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

These "statistics" are purely fabricated. Name it, cite it, or STFU with putting them forth like they are valid.

Talk to any middle school kid or middle school teacher in fcps.

They will confirm that many if not most of the middle school girls are going by any gender but girl.

Not true. I teach almost 150 FCPs middle school students, and I have a total of two students who have asked me to use pronouns other than those traditionally used to match their sex as listed in SIS. That's TWO out of almost 150.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

These "statistics" are purely fabricated. Name it, cite it, or STFU with putting them forth like they are valid.

Talk to any middle school kid or middle school teacher in fcps.

They will confirm that many if not most of the middle school girls are going by any gender but girl.

And.... This is the part I don't understand, what's the actual problem that is so serious that we need to create legislation about it? Are children incapable of learning in classrooms with students expressing gender that is different than the one assigned at birth? Are girls getting UTIs because they are so afraid to enter bathrooms that may have a transgirl behind the stall door? Are chosen names making it impossible to call roll in a timely fashion? What is so terrible, so absolutely awful, that we need to create policy that denies children the right to be called what they want to be called and treated the way the want to be treated?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

These "statistics" are purely fabricated. Name it, cite it, or STFU with putting them forth like they are valid.

Talk to any middle school kid or middle school teacher in fcps.

They will confirm that many if not most of the middle school girls are going by any gender but girl.

And.... This is the part I don't understand, what's the actual problem that is so serious that we need to create legislation about it? Are children incapable of learning in classrooms with students expressing gender that is different than the one assigned at birth? Are girls getting UTIs because they are so afraid to enter bathrooms that may have a transgirl behind the stall door? Are chosen names making it impossible to call roll in a timely fashion? What is so terrible, so absolutely awful, that we need to create policy that denies children the right to be called what they want to be called and treated the way the want to be treated?

Bathroom capacity for one. If half of the middle school girls are expressing an alternate gender identity, then we need to reallocate bathroom space to accommodate them and remove urinals from the boys rooms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

These "statistics" are purely fabricated. Name it, cite it, or STFU with putting them forth like they are valid.

Talk to any middle school kid or middle school teacher in fcps.

They will confirm that many if not most of the middle school girls are going by any gender but girl.

And.... This is the part I don't understand, what's the actual problem that is so serious that we need to create legislation about it? Are children incapable of learning in classrooms with students expressing gender that is different than the one assigned at birth? Are girls getting UTIs because they are so afraid to enter bathrooms that may have a transgirl behind the stall door? Are chosen names making it impossible to call roll in a timely fashion? What is so terrible, so absolutely awful, that we need to create policy that denies children the right to be called what they want to be called and treated the way the want to be treated?

Here's my two cents, which will likely get my post deleted. I think that during puberty is the time to basically come to grips with the transition from being a child to being an adult. It's messy. It's emotional. Your body suddenly feels foreign to you. It's an age appropriate time period to work through those very normal feelings and come out on the other side. However, many girls are instead getting the message that the reason why they're feeling like this is because they must be a boy instead. Or if they don't like stereotypically girly things or look particularly feminine, the answer is they must be a boy. Changing their gender is putting a band aid on the real underlying issues of anxiety and body dysphoria so that they never actually deal with the problem, only the symptoms. They miss out on what is supposed to be an age appropriate development phase and it's delayed by several years or they become more anxious once they realize that that great feeling they initially had by changing their gender doesn't last and they're left with the same mental health struggles. They end up more fragile and more vulnerable because of the delay.

The short version is that I think it's harmful. I also think the data supports my position given the meteoric rise of mental health issues in girls which correlates to the increase in gender exploration and nobody has bothered to do the correlation or causation comparison. I sincerely believe society's approach to these issues is damaging an entire generation of girls.

I don't have the same viewpoint for trans girls as I think the life experiences for trans girls and trans boys are so different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Kids don't tell their parents all sorts of things, be it experimenting with vaping, alcohol, and drugs or if they're being bullied.

Sometimes parents can't see the symptoms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

These "statistics" are purely fabricated. Name it, cite it, or STFU with putting them forth like they are valid.

Talk to any middle school kid or middle school teacher in fcps.

They will confirm that many if not most of the middle school girls are going by any gender but girl.

And.... This is the part I don't understand, what's the actual problem that is so serious that we need to create legislation about it? Are children incapable of learning in classrooms with students expressing gender that is different than the one assigned at birth? Are girls getting UTIs because they are so afraid to enter bathrooms that may have a transgirl behind the stall door? Are chosen names making it impossible to call roll in a timely fashion? What is so terrible, so absolutely awful, that we need to create policy that denies children the right to be called what they want to be called and treated the way the want to be treated?

Bathroom capacity for one. If half of the middle school girls are expressing an alternate gender identity, then we need to reallocate bathroom space to accommodate them and remove urinals from the boys rooms.

Ok, but is that happening right now? Is any school reporting huge problems with bathroom capacity? This legislation is written in such a way that it suggests this is an immediate crisis and that students (and their parents) are suffering as a direct result of Northam's legislation. But I don't see any evidence that supports that. And honestly, if the best you can offer up is that we might need to remodel bathrooms due to this issue, that seems like a pretty poor reason to create a hostile environment for trans and gender-non conforming kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

These "statistics" are purely fabricated. Name it, cite it, or STFU with putting them forth like they are valid.

Talk to any middle school kid or middle school teacher in fcps.

They will confirm that many if not most of the middle school girls are going by any gender but girl.

And.... This is the part I don't understand, what's the actual problem that is so serious that we need to create legislation about it? Are children incapable of learning in classrooms with students expressing gender that is different than the one assigned at birth? Are girls getting UTIs because they are so afraid to enter bathrooms that may have a transgirl behind the stall door? Are chosen names making it impossible to call roll in a timely fashion? What is so terrible, so absolutely awful, that we need to create policy that denies children the right to be called what they want to be called and treated the way the want to be treated?

Here's my two cents, which will likely get my post deleted. I think that during puberty is the time to basically come to grips with the transition from being a child to being an adult. It's messy. It's emotional. Your body suddenly feels foreign to you. It's an age appropriate time period to work through those very normal feelings and come out on the other side. However, many girls are instead getting the message that the reason why they're feeling like this is because they must be a boy instead. Or if they don't like stereotypically girly things or look particularly feminine, the answer is they must be a boy. Changing their gender is putting a band aid on the real underlying issues of anxiety and body dysphoria so that they never actually deal with the problem, only the symptoms. They miss out on what is supposed to be an age appropriate development phase and it's delayed by several years or they become more anxious once they realize that that great feeling they initially had by changing their gender doesn't last and they're left with the same mental health struggles. They end up more fragile and more vulnerable because of the delay.

The short version is that I think it's harmful. I also think the data supports my position given the meteoric rise of mental health issues in girls which correlates to the increase in gender exploration and nobody has bothered to do the correlation or causation comparison. I sincerely believe society's approach to these issues is damaging an entire generation of girls.

I don't have the same viewpoint for trans girls as I think the life experiences for trans girls and trans boys are so different.

Thank you for this thoughtful post.

Based on my family's experience with this issue with several girls, I think your post is spot on and brings up important points that are being ignored in the US. I think we need to look at European countries like England and Sweden on this issue since they are several years ahead of us and see how they are having to pick up the pieces of the unintended consequences to young women who were caught up in this movement and now have to deal with so many life destroying health and body issues.

We can be compassionate without embracing what countries who were ahead of us by years on this issue are now frantically walking back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

These "statistics" are purely fabricated. Name it, cite it, or STFU with putting them forth like they are valid.

Talk to any middle school kid or middle school teacher in fcps.

They will confirm that many if not most of the middle school girls are going by any gender but girl.

Not true at all. Are you even a FCPS parent?

Elections are coming up. Seems like more GOP astroturfing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids shouldn’t be “experimenting” with gender identity at school and teachers shouldn’t be encouraging it. School is for academics. Let’s keep the focus where it needs to be.

Teachers aren't "encouraging" anything related to gender identity other than respect for all.

A teacher willingly calling a child by the name that child states is preferred is not encouraging exploration of gender identity; it is respect.

-- If William goes by "Quinn" because he happens to be William V and "Quinn" is close to "quint," meaning "five," the teacher should call him "Quinn," and should not ask why he goes by Quinn.

-- If Hye Min goes by "Kristin" because she is embarrassed that her given name, in English, sounds similar to a part of anatomy, the teacher should call her "Kristin," and should not ask why she chooses to be called Kristin.

-- If Carson wants to go by their middle name-- Lee-- at school because there are two other Carsons in class, the teacher should call that student "Lee" and should not ask why "Lee" is the preferred name.

-- If Quoc asks to be called "Joey" because he worries that his legal name, in English, sounds like a vulgar word for anatomy, the teacher should call him "Joey."

-- If Juan wants to go by "Jan" at school, the teacher should call them "Jan."

-- If Leslie wants to be called "Les," the teacher should use the name "Les" when referring to that child.

-- If Alexander and Alexandra both go by "Alex," the teacher should call them both "Alex."

-- If Richard goes by "Skip," the teacher should call him "Skip."

I cannot imagine that there is any teacher out there stating "Let's explore our gender identity" in class, nor can I imagine that any teacher is asking students to explain why they use a nickname or alternative name. Instead, most (if not all) teachers ask students on the first day, "Please correct me if I am mispronouncing your name or if you go by something other than the name on my official roster." What could possibly be wrong with that? That is respectful. It is not political, nor is it taking power away from parents.

Secondary teachers have 130-200 students each, and it is likely that close to half of those children use a nickname or alternative name (For example,, many students from East Asia or Southeast Asia choose to use an "American" name at school.) It is not feasible to go check the file of every student who asks to be called a different name to see if the parents approve of that name choice.

Actually, at leaston one fcps high school teacher is encouraging and pressuring students to embrace this issue and participate in a protest during school hours.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

These "statistics" are purely fabricated. Name it, cite it, or STFU with putting them forth like they are valid.

Talk to any middle school kid or middle school teacher in fcps.

They will confirm that many if not most of the middle school girls are going by any gender but girl.

Not true at all. Are you even a FCPS parent?

Elections are coming up. Seems like more GOP astroturfing.

Absolutely it is true for middle school. Yes, ai am a parent of a fcps middle schooler.

I assume that you are a good parent and probably on the preferred fcps side of this issue.

But if you have a middle school daughter, even one who presents very girly, and even if you are a trans ally, your middle school daughter who you think is a girl is very likely identifying as a boy at school without you having a clue. Based on what my kid and the neighborhood kids And teacher friend say, the odds could be as high as 50/50.

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Anonymous wrote:If parents want to know everything about their kids, why don’t they talk to them? The kids keeping a secret like this clearly don’t feel safe to talk to their parents. Instead of using the force of the state to know about their kids, they should try parenting.

This!! The kids that can't tell their parents stuff have crappy-ass parents who have made it clear that there is a "right" way to be and they better not step out of gender norms.

Most of the girls in my kids class who are identifying as boys without telling their parents have very liberal parents who say the exact same thing that you just posted.

There are close to 50 to 60 percent of the girls in my kids fcps middle school who are claiming a different gender. Most of their parents are very blue, very kind and involved parents and have zero clue that this is going on.

The kids hiding this from their parents has nothing to do with having "crappy ass parents"

The hiding stuff from parents is normal, mainstream, developmentally appropriate teen behavior that has nothing to do with the quality of a trans kids parents.

The problem is that for some reason, on this particular issue, activists have cowed schools and parents and brainwashed students into believing that parents should be cut off from their kids by schools as a best practice. This is simply wrong, particularly on such an emotionally charged and potentially dangerous to the kids well being mental health issue.

These "statistics" are purely fabricated. Name it, cite it, or STFU with putting them forth like they are valid.

Talk to any middle school kid or middle school teacher in fcps.

They will confirm that many if not most of the middle school girls are going by any gender but girl.

Not true at all. Are you even a FCPS parent?

Elections are coming up. Seems like more GOP astroturfing.

Absolutely it is true for middle school. Yes, ai am a parent of a fcps middle schooler.

I assume that you are a good parent and probably on the preferred fcps side of this issue.

But if you have a middle school daughter, even one who presents very girly, and even if you are a trans ally, your middle school daughter who you think is a girl is very likely identifying as a boy at school without you having a clue. Based on what my kid and the neighborhood kids And teacher friend say, the odds could be as high as 50/50.[/quote

LOL. Sure, Jan.