Fairfax County School Board Votes to Teach 7th Graders about 'Gender Identy'

[Anonymous]

Just admit you don't want your kids to know about gay or trans people, because you desperately fear your kids ARE gay or trans people. Or you stupidly believe learning about gay and trans people can turn your kids gay or trans.

Why else would you care? Surely you don't plan to raise your kids to be ignorant? Because like it or not, they live in a world with gay and trans people. Eventually they will discover that.

[Anonymous]

We don't need a lesson on trans and gays that's an issue parents should handle not the school. Schools should by all means prevent bullying of students and keep them safe regardless of race, gender, trans, gay, etc...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't need a lesson on trans and gays that's an issue parents should handle not the schoolp. Schools should by all means prevent bullying of students and keep them safe regardless of race, gender, trans, gay, etc...

You know how you prevent bullying? By teaching the other kids the facts and that trans kids are not scary, f'ed up pariahs. And how do you do that? Through the schools, since clearly not all parents can be held accountable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't need a lesson on trans and gays that's an issue parents should handle not the school. Schools should by all means prevent bullying of students and keep them safe regardless of race, gender, trans, gay, etc...

But if reading these boards tells you anything, it's that a lot of parents can't handle it. opt out for your kid if you must, but I see no reason why schools shouldn't be teaching basic facts about sexuality and gender identity. i think anyone who talks to their kids who attends public school would be shocked at how open and accepting most kids are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Luckily, you don't have to send your kids to public school. If you want to teach them your prejudiced beliefs, you can do so in your home by homeschooling or you can pay a private school to do it for you.

And I don't see what the lie was. You can opt out. (Sadly, since school is clearly the only place that will dispute your BS.) What is the issue?

How dare you call other people's beliefs "prejudiced" just because they don't agree with you. I have to think you are 100% wrong in your "beliefs" (which is all they are) that transgenderism is normal, but I would never call you prejudiced.

A gullible Kool-aid drinker, perhaps, but never prejudice.

The only Kool aid drinkers are you Bible thumpers. Pot, meet kettle.

No one wants to hear they are prejudiced but your strong objection to your kids learning about people who are different from them, who in no way affect or harm your kids or anyone else, proves you are. So basically, transgender kids should have to continue to be shamed, bullied, and told they aren't normal just so your precious snowflake doesn't hear something you don't like because you are selfish and closed minded? Ooook. Please do everyone a favor and remove your doomed children from these tyrant schools before the normal rubs off on them.

Oh, please. Did you get your talking points from the DNC?

I have no problem with my kids learning about people who are "different." By definition, every single other living person on the planet is "different" from them.

There is no such thing as "transgendered" kids. There are troubled, hurt, abused, confused, etc kids who think (or whose distorted parents think, hello Angelina Jolie) that this is all novel, hip and fun and yet another way to make deviancy the norm, which is becoming nothing more than a game to some people. That is not a piece of educational knowledge I think my kids -- or yours either, for that matter -- need to be enlightened on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We don't need a lesson on trans and gays that's an issue parents should handle not the school. Schools should by all means prevent bullying of students and keep them safe regardless of race, gender, trans, gay, etc...

But if reading these boards tells you anything, it's that a lot of parents can't handle it. opt out for your kid if you must, but I see no reason why schools shouldn't be teaching basic facts about sexuality and gender identity. i think anyone who talks to their kids who attends public school would be shocked at how open and accepting most kids are.

Because their "basic facts" are a lie.

[Anonymous]

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Seriously? Is this a troll?

Nope. Not a troll. OP is legit.

School board did this the first Wednesday of summer vacation.


The vote in June was the culmination of several months of public comments. It was a topic throughout the spring. It was not sprung at the last moment. There were several periods for public comment. I am sorry if you were not paying attention.

It is you who are not paying attention. Parents were told at that time that students could opt out of the lessons, and now it appears they cannot.

Wrong again. Most of the small changes are part of FLE and can be opted out; however the relatively smaller changes that are in general health and not part of FLE was there from the beginning of the discussion. Again, it was not sprung at the the last minute. It was there from the start. It was never hidden.

[Anonymous]

If the curriculum is teaching that being transgender is “normal,” it is just simply wrong.
There is nothing normal about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the curriculum is teaching that being transgender is “normal,” it is just simply wrong.
There is nothing normal about it.

It is normal like being left handed is normal, or like being violet eyed is normal. It isn't common, but for that person, it is normal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If the curriculum is teaching that being transgender is “normal,” it is just simply wrong.
There is nothing normal about it.

It is normal like being left handed is normal, or like being violet eyed is normal. It isn't common, but for that person, it is normal.

is there a genetic test or DNA for trans and gay? Or is it found through mental health counseling and self reflection/?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the curriculum is teaching that being transgender is “normal,” it is just simply wrong.
There is nothing normal about it.

It is normal like being left handed is normal, or like being violet eyed is normal. It isn't common, but for that person, it is normal.

No. That person is simply disturbed. Being disturbed is not normal and should not be treated as such.

Why is this so hard for so many of you to accept? Oh, I get it. You won't be "cool" any more, if you don't jump on the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ bandwagon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the curriculum is teaching that being transgender is “normal,” it is just simply wrong.
There is nothing normal about it.

It is normal like being left handed is normal, or like being violet eyed is normal. It isn't common, but for that person, it is normal.

is there a genetic test or DNA for trans and gay? Or is it found through mental health counseling and self reflection/?

There is some science that indicates a possible cause for transgender women that is relates to DNA. More study needs to be done as this a very new area of research.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-science-of-transgender-20140730

"Rather, a growing body of research is pointing to biological origins. The 2008 discovery by Australian researchers of a genetic variation in transgender women—their receptor gene for the sex hormone testosterone was longer, making it less efficient at communicating signals—set off speculation that insufficient uptake of male hormones in utero contributed to a "more feminised brain." And the brains of trans people do look different. Recent Spanish imaging studies have shown that the white matter of untreated trans men look much like those of biological males, and that the patterns of trans women's white matter fell about halfway between those of biological male and female control groups. But it's premature to draw conclusions from those studies, warns Olson, since "those parts of the brain are shaped by performance and experience," and so may be a product of nurture, not nature. And despite the big genetic finding, it's unclear what precise role genetics plays, since a recent survey of identical twins found that only in 20 percent of cases did both twins turn out transgender, despite having identical DNA."

Again, there is a similarity with handedness. There are identical twins where one is right handed and one is left handed, so with handedness genes play a role but there are other factors at play too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mom of seventh grader here.

Yes, Garza sent out an email that parents can opt a student out of FLE. However the subject is now included in graded classes and supposedly we, as parents, are unable to opt out a student.

We were lied to by Garza. This was sneaky and underhanded.

Spare us and go homeschool your snowflakes, if you're so put out. Garza is doing a very good job. No other large school district in the country comes close to being as good as FCPS.

Must have been written by Karen Garza. Fcps is sinking like a stone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mom of seventh grader here.

Yes, Garza sent out an email that parents can opt a student out of FLE. However the subject is now included in graded classes and supposedly we, as parents, are unable to opt out a student.

We were lied to by Garza. This was sneaky and underhanded.

Spare us and go homeschool your snowflakes, if you're so put out. Garza is doing a very good job. No other large school district in the country comes close to being as good as FCPS.

Must have been written by Karen Garza. Fcps is sinking like a stone.

Our schools are fantastic. Sorry you have your head up your ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the curriculum is teaching that being transgender is “normal,” it is just simply wrong.
There is nothing normal about it.

It is normal like being left handed is normal, or like being violet eyed is normal. It isn't common, but for that person, it is normal.

is there a genetic test or DNA for trans and gay? Or is it found through mental health counseling and self reflection/?

No DNA differences have been identified.