New VA trans policies for schools

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Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the potential medical intervention that may come with gender exploration. Different than being gay and you should not confuse the two.

We are discussing schools. Not medical interventions.

“Outing” kids against their will would be traumatizing for both transgender and for gay kids.

This is not a student going privately to a teacher or counselor and telling that teacher that they don’t feel like the sex that they are biologically or assigned at birth or whatever you want to call it. Now if the teacher or counselor emails the parents telling them that, then sure that would be “outing.” This is a student who is asking the entire school, from teachers to fellow classmates to treat him or her as a gender different than one that corresponds to the student’s biological sex. The entire school is actively participating by using that student’s pronouns. The school is allowing that student to use a bathroom that isn’t designated for members of that student’s biological sex. The school is actively socially transitioning the student and requiring that student’s classmates to participate in that process by requiring all that student’s classmates to use that student’s preferred pronouns whatever that is. So yes, the parents should know.

If the kid has reasons for not telling the parents then the school should respect that.

If the kid wants to report abuse or neglect then the school’s mandatory reporter obligations kick in and they are welcome to call CPS. But until then the parents are the parents and they ought to be informed. There is no middle ground. Unless we’re talking about things a kid says to a counselor, where there’s a legally established confidential relationship.

No. Teachers are not there to fix your family’s issues. And they shouldn’t “out” a kid without their permission. Gay or transgender.

Most PPs here are not saying teachers should put gay students - specially because this is not likely to come up in the normal course of interacting with parents (unlike using a name or pronouns would) and because it does not really have an impact on how the school treats that kid. Who they are attracted to does not change how teachers and peers interact with them, which bathroom they use, which locker room they use, which room to sleep in on overnight trips, etc.

The main reason boys and girls have always been separated for locker rooms, overnight accommodations, etc. is to eliminate sexual behaviors. And that has dictated others' interactions by way of chaperones, managing seating on buses, segregated bathrooms, segregated locker rooms. But all you people saying this is only about gender identification, I guess you don't care about that because you're fine with homosexual teens sleeping with same-sex peers on field trips and showering and changing clothes in front of same-sex peers?

This sounds homophobic to me. Part of the trans movement is disguised homophobia.

If you’re a terf.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the potential medical intervention that may come with gender exploration. Different than being gay and you should not confuse the two.

We are discussing schools. Not medical interventions.

“Outing” kids against their will would be traumatizing for both transgender and for gay kids.

This is not a student going privately to a teacher or counselor and telling that teacher that they don’t feel like the sex that they are biologically or assigned at birth or whatever you want to call it. Now if the teacher or counselor emails the parents telling them that, then sure that would be “outing.” This is a student who is asking the entire school, from teachers to fellow classmates to treat him or her as a gender different than one that corresponds to the student’s biological sex. The entire school is actively participating by using that student’s pronouns. The school is allowing that student to use a bathroom that isn’t designated for members of that student’s biological sex. The school is actively socially transitioning the student and requiring that student’s classmates to participate in that process by requiring all that student’s classmates to use that student’s preferred pronouns whatever that is. So yes, the parents should know.

If the kid has reasons for not telling the parents then the school should respect that.

If the kid wants to report abuse or neglect then the school’s mandatory reporter obligations kick in and they are welcome to call CPS. But until then the parents are the parents and they ought to be informed. There is no middle ground. Unless we’re talking about things a kid says to a counselor, where there’s a legally established confidential relationship.

No. Teachers are not there to fix your family’s issues. And they shouldn’t “out” a kid without their permission. Gay or transgender.

Correct, teachers are not co-parents. If they see a student struggling with mental issues, gender confusion, this should be reported to the parent for them to "fix the family issues".
Your words, not mine.

Mental issues are complicated. Teachers can share some observations but aren’t diagnosticians so they can only say so much.

Gender identity isn’t necessarily a “mental issue”. Only if the person is struggling.

Schools aren’t there to facilitate discussions for dysfunctional families. If your kid doesn’t want to come out to you then that’s on you. They can’t fix intolerant parents.

Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis listed in the DSM-V, the manual used for diagnosing mental health disorders. The DSM-V changed the name of it from gender identity"disorder" to "dysphoria" to eliminate some stigma attached to the diagnosis.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the potential medical intervention that may come with gender exploration. Different than being gay and you should not confuse the two.

We are discussing schools. Not medical interventions.

“Outing” kids against their will would be traumatizing for both transgender and for gay kids.

This is not a student going privately to a teacher or counselor and telling that teacher that they don’t feel like the sex that they are biologically or assigned at birth or whatever you want to call it. Now if the teacher or counselor emails the parents telling them that, then sure that would be “outing.” This is a student who is asking the entire school, from teachers to fellow classmates to treat him or her as a gender different than one that corresponds to the student’s biological sex. The entire school is actively participating by using that student’s pronouns. The school is allowing that student to use a bathroom that isn’t designated for members of that student’s biological sex. The school is actively socially transitioning the student and requiring that student’s classmates to participate in that process by requiring all that student’s classmates to use that student’s preferred pronouns whatever that is. So yes, the parents should know.

If the kid has reasons for not telling the parents then the school should respect that.

If the kid wants to report abuse or neglect then the school’s mandatory reporter obligations kick in and they are welcome to call CPS. But until then the parents are the parents and they ought to be informed. There is no middle ground. Unless we’re talking about things a kid says to a counselor, where there’s a legally established confidential relationship.

No. Teachers are not there to fix your family’s issues. And they shouldn’t “out” a kid without their permission. Gay or transgender.

Correct, teachers are not co-parents. If they see a student struggling with mental issues, gender confusion, this should be reported to the parent for them to "fix the family issues".
Your words, not mine.

Mental issues are complicated. Teachers can share some observations but aren’t diagnosticians so they can only say so much.

Gender identity isn’t necessarily a “mental issue”. Only if the person is struggling.

Schools aren’t there to facilitate discussions for dysfunctional families. If your kid doesn’t want to come out to you then that’s on you. They can’t fix intolerant parents.

Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis listed in the DSM-V, the manual used for diagnosing mental health disorders. The DSM-V changed the name of it from gender identity"disorder" to "dysphoria" to eliminate some stigma attached to the diagnosis.

And, gaslighting is making people think that it is perfectly okay to change kids' "gender."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the potential medical intervention that may come with gender exploration. Different than being gay and you should not confuse the two.

We are discussing schools. Not medical interventions.

“Outing” kids against their will would be traumatizing for both transgender and for gay kids.

This is not a student going privately to a teacher or counselor and telling that teacher that they don’t feel like the sex that they are biologically or assigned at birth or whatever you want to call it. Now if the teacher or counselor emails the parents telling them that, then sure that would be “outing.” This is a student who is asking the entire school, from teachers to fellow classmates to treat him or her as a gender different than one that corresponds to the student’s biological sex. The entire school is actively participating by using that student’s pronouns. The school is allowing that student to use a bathroom that isn’t designated for members of that student’s biological sex. The school is actively socially transitioning the student and requiring that student’s classmates to participate in that process by requiring all that student’s classmates to use that student’s preferred pronouns whatever that is. So yes, the parents should know.

If the kid has reasons for not telling the parents then the school should respect that.

If the kid wants to report abuse or neglect then the school’s mandatory reporter obligations kick in and they are welcome to call CPS. But until then the parents are the parents and they ought to be informed. There is no middle ground. Unless we’re talking about things a kid says to a counselor, where there’s a legally established confidential relationship.

No. Teachers are not there to fix your family’s issues. And they shouldn’t “out” a kid without their permission. Gay or transgender.

Correct, teachers are not co-parents. If they see a student struggling with mental issues, gender confusion, this should be reported to the parent for them to "fix the family issues".
Your words, not mine.

Mental issues are complicated. Teachers can share some observations but aren’t diagnosticians so they can only say so much.

Gender identity isn’t necessarily a “mental issue”. Only if the person is struggling.

Schools aren’t there to facilitate discussions for dysfunctional families. If your kid doesn’t want to come out to you then that’s on you. They can’t fix intolerant parents.

Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis listed in the DSM-V, the manual used for diagnosing mental health disorders. The DSM-V changed the name of it from gender identity"disorder" to "dysphoria" to eliminate some stigma attached to the diagnosis.

Gender dysphoria only occurs when the person is distressed by the situation. Not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the potential medical intervention that may come with gender exploration. Different than being gay and you should not confuse the two.

We are discussing schools. Not medical interventions.

“Outing” kids against their will would be traumatizing for both transgender and for gay kids.

This is not a student going privately to a teacher or counselor and telling that teacher that they don’t feel like the sex that they are biologically or assigned at birth or whatever you want to call it. Now if the teacher or counselor emails the parents telling them that, then sure that would be “outing.” This is a student who is asking the entire school, from teachers to fellow classmates to treat him or her as a gender different than one that corresponds to the student’s biological sex. The entire school is actively participating by using that student’s pronouns. The school is allowing that student to use a bathroom that isn’t designated for members of that student’s biological sex. The school is actively socially transitioning the student and requiring that student’s classmates to participate in that process by requiring all that student’s classmates to use that student’s preferred pronouns whatever that is. So yes, the parents should know.

If the kid has reasons for not telling the parents then the school should respect that.

If the kid wants to report abuse or neglect then the school’s mandatory reporter obligations kick in and they are welcome to call CPS. But until then the parents are the parents and they ought to be informed. There is no middle ground. Unless we’re talking about things a kid says to a counselor, where there’s a legally established confidential relationship.

No. Teachers are not there to fix your family’s issues. And they shouldn’t “out” a kid without their permission. Gay or transgender.

Correct, teachers are not co-parents. If they see a student struggling with mental issues, gender confusion, this should be reported to the parent for them to "fix the family issues".
Your words, not mine.

Mental issues are complicated. Teachers can share some observations but aren’t diagnosticians so they can only say so much.

Gender identity isn’t necessarily a “mental issue”. Only if the person is struggling.

Schools aren’t there to facilitate discussions for dysfunctional families. If your kid doesn’t want to come out to you then that’s on you. They can’t fix intolerant parents.

Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis listed in the DSM-V, the manual used for diagnosing mental health disorders. The DSM-V changed the name of it from gender identity"disorder" to "dysphoria" to eliminate some stigma attached to the diagnosis.

Gender dysphoria only occurs when the person is distressed by the situation. Not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria.

Yeah cuz it’s so normal to want to be a gender that is different from your biological sex. No need to feel any type of stress. It’s all good. All normalized.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the potential medical intervention that may come with gender exploration. Different than being gay and you should not confuse the two.

We are discussing schools. Not medical interventions.

“Outing” kids against their will would be traumatizing for both transgender and for gay kids.

This is not a student going privately to a teacher or counselor and telling that teacher that they don’t feel like the sex that they are biologically or assigned at birth or whatever you want to call it. Now if the teacher or counselor emails the parents telling them that, then sure that would be “outing.” This is a student who is asking the entire school, from teachers to fellow classmates to treat him or her as a gender different than one that corresponds to the student’s biological sex. The entire school is actively participating by using that student’s pronouns. The school is allowing that student to use a bathroom that isn’t designated for members of that student’s biological sex. The school is actively socially transitioning the student and requiring that student’s classmates to participate in that process by requiring all that student’s classmates to use that student’s preferred pronouns whatever that is. So yes, the parents should know.

If the kid has reasons for not telling the parents then the school should respect that.

If the kid wants to report abuse or neglect then the school’s mandatory reporter obligations kick in and they are welcome to call CPS. But until then the parents are the parents and they ought to be informed. There is no middle ground. Unless we’re talking about things a kid says to a counselor, where there’s a legally established confidential relationship.

No. Teachers are not there to fix your family’s issues. And they shouldn’t “out” a kid without their permission. Gay or transgender.

Correct, teachers are not co-parents. If they see a student struggling with mental issues, gender confusion, this should be reported to the parent for them to "fix the family issues".
Your words, not mine.

Mental issues are complicated. Teachers can share some observations but aren’t diagnosticians so they can only say so much.

Gender identity isn’t necessarily a “mental issue”. Only if the person is struggling.

Schools aren’t there to facilitate discussions for dysfunctional families. If your kid doesn’t want to come out to you then that’s on you. They can’t fix intolerant parents.

Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis listed in the DSM-V, the manual used for diagnosing mental health disorders. The DSM-V changed the name of it from gender identity"disorder" to "dysphoria" to eliminate some stigma attached to the diagnosis.

Gender dysphoria only occurs when the person is distressed by the situation. Not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria.

Yeah cuz it’s so normal to want to be a gender that is different from your biological sex. No need to feel any type of stress. It’s all good. All normalized.

Probably one of the biggest stressors is knowing there are anti-trans bigots who want to hurt you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the potential medical intervention that may come with gender exploration. Different than being gay and you should not confuse the two.

We are discussing schools. Not medical interventions.

“Outing” kids against their will would be traumatizing for both transgender and for gay kids.

This is not a student going privately to a teacher or counselor and telling that teacher that they don’t feel like the sex that they are biologically or assigned at birth or whatever you want to call it. Now if the teacher or counselor emails the parents telling them that, then sure that would be “outing.” This is a student who is asking the entire school, from teachers to fellow classmates to treat him or her as a gender different than one that corresponds to the student’s biological sex. The entire school is actively participating by using that student’s pronouns. The school is allowing that student to use a bathroom that isn’t designated for members of that student’s biological sex. The school is actively socially transitioning the student and requiring that student’s classmates to participate in that process by requiring all that student’s classmates to use that student’s preferred pronouns whatever that is. So yes, the parents should know.

If the kid has reasons for not telling the parents then the school should respect that.

If the kid wants to report abuse or neglect then the school’s mandatory reporter obligations kick in and they are welcome to call CPS. But until then the parents are the parents and they ought to be informed. There is no middle ground. Unless we’re talking about things a kid says to a counselor, where there’s a legally established confidential relationship.

No. Teachers are not there to fix your family’s issues. And they shouldn’t “out” a kid without their permission. Gay or transgender.

Correct, teachers are not co-parents. If they see a student struggling with mental issues, gender confusion, this should be reported to the parent for them to "fix the family issues".
Your words, not mine.

Mental issues are complicated. Teachers can share some observations but aren’t diagnosticians so they can only say so much.

Gender identity isn’t necessarily a “mental issue”. Only if the person is struggling.

Schools aren’t there to facilitate discussions for dysfunctional families. If your kid doesn’t want to come out to you then that’s on you. They can’t fix intolerant parents.

Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis listed in the DSM-V, the manual used for diagnosing mental health disorders. The DSM-V changed the name of it from gender identity"disorder" to "dysphoria" to eliminate some stigma attached to the diagnosis.

Gender dysphoria only occurs when the person is distressed by the situation. Not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria.

Yeah cuz it’s so normal to want to be a gender that is different from your biological sex. No need to feel any type of stress. It’s all good. All normalized.

Probably one of the biggest stressors is knowing there are anti-trans bigots who want to hurt you.

This is gaslighting. Few people want to hurt trans kids. They are just trying to protect children in general. You do realize there are people who choose to "detransition?" You do realize that biological girls in sports are losting to trans boys?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the potential medical intervention that may come with gender exploration. Different than being gay and you should not confuse the two.

We are discussing schools. Not medical interventions.

“Outing” kids against their will would be traumatizing for both transgender and for gay kids.

This is not a student going privately to a teacher or counselor and telling that teacher that they don’t feel like the sex that they are biologically or assigned at birth or whatever you want to call it. Now if the teacher or counselor emails the parents telling them that, then sure that would be “outing.” This is a student who is asking the entire school, from teachers to fellow classmates to treat him or her as a gender different than one that corresponds to the student’s biological sex. The entire school is actively participating by using that student’s pronouns. The school is allowing that student to use a bathroom that isn’t designated for members of that student’s biological sex. The school is actively socially transitioning the student and requiring that student’s classmates to participate in that process by requiring all that student’s classmates to use that student’s preferred pronouns whatever that is. So yes, the parents should know.

If the kid has reasons for not telling the parents then the school should respect that.

If the kid wants to report abuse or neglect then the school’s mandatory reporter obligations kick in and they are welcome to call CPS. But until then the parents are the parents and they ought to be informed. There is no middle ground. Unless we’re talking about things a kid says to a counselor, where there’s a legally established confidential relationship.

No. Teachers are not there to fix your family’s issues. And they shouldn’t “out” a kid without their permission. Gay or transgender.

Correct, teachers are not co-parents. If they see a student struggling with mental issues, gender confusion, this should be reported to the parent for them to "fix the family issues".
Your words, not mine.

Mental issues are complicated. Teachers can share some observations but aren’t diagnosticians so they can only say so much.

Gender identity isn’t necessarily a “mental issue”. Only if the person is struggling.

Schools aren’t there to facilitate discussions for dysfunctional families. If your kid doesn’t want to come out to you then that’s on you. They can’t fix intolerant parents.

Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis listed in the DSM-V, the manual used for diagnosing mental health disorders. The DSM-V changed the name of it from gender identity"disorder" to "dysphoria" to eliminate some stigma attached to the diagnosis.

Gender dysphoria only occurs when the person is distressed by the situation. Not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria.

Yeah cuz it’s so normal to want to be a gender that is different from your biological sex. No need to feel any type of stress. It’s all good. All normalized.

Probably one of the biggest stressors is knowing there are anti-trans bigots who want to hurt you.

This is gaslighting. Few people want to hurt trans kids. They are just trying to protect children in general. You do realize there are people who choose to "detransition?" You do realize that biological girls in sports are losting to trans boys?


Meant trans girls.

[Anonymous]

There is a fantastic book titled Trans Bodies/Trans Selves if you are interested in more insights rather than simply arguing. Section 5 is Life Stages and begins with stories and information on children and parenting.

[Anonymous]

Male and female brains are, on average, slightly different in structure, although there is tremendous individual variability. Several studies have looked for signs that transgender people have brains more similar to their experienced gender. Spanish investigators—led by psychobiologist Antonio Guillamon of the National Distance Education University in Madrid and neuropsychologist Carme Junqué Plaja of the University of Barcelona—used MRI to examine the brains of 24 female-to-males and 18 male-to-females—both before and after treatment with cross-sex hormones. Their results, published in 2013, showed that even before treatment the brain structures of the trans people were more similar in some respects to the brains of their experienced gender than those of their natal gender.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is...e-transgender-brain/

[Anonymous]

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Male and female brains are, on average, slightly different in structure, although there is tremendous individual variability. Several studies have looked for signs that transgender people have brains more similar to their experienced gender. Spanish investigators—led by psychobiologist Antonio Guillamon of the National Distance Education University in Madrid and neuropsychologist Carme Junqué Plaja of the University of Barcelona—used MRI to examine the brains of 24 female-to-males and 18 male-to-females—both before and after treatment with cross-sex hormones. Their results, published in 2013, showed that even before treatment the brain structures of the trans people were more similar in some respects to the brains of their experienced gender than those of their natal gender.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is...e-transgender-brain/

In hopes that this helps with understanding transkids with a bit more nuance. The binary mindset truly does not apply. We do need to take this into account beyond outward characteristics.

Supporting all kids in school as they are is vital to their over all health and well being, that is a part of learning and educational hygiene.

[Anonymous]

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Male and female brains are, on average, slightly different in structure, although there is tremendous individual variability. Several studies have looked for signs that transgender people have brains more similar to their experienced gender. Spanish investigators—led by psychobiologist Antonio Guillamon of the National Distance Education University in Madrid and neuropsychologist Carme Junqué Plaja of the University of Barcelona—used MRI to examine the brains of 24 female-to-males and 18 male-to-females—both before and after treatment with cross-sex hormones. Their results, published in 2013, showed that even before treatment the brain structures of the trans people were more similar in some respects to the brains of their experienced gender than those of their natal gender.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is...e-transgender-brain/

I believe that study actually showed a stronger correlation with sexual orientation than gender identity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Male and female brains are, on average, slightly different in structure, although there is tremendous individual variability. Several studies have looked for signs that transgender people have brains more similar to their experienced gender. Spanish investigators—led by psychobiologist Antonio Guillamon of the National Distance Education University in Madrid and neuropsychologist Carme Junqué Plaja of the University of Barcelona—used MRI to examine the brains of 24 female-to-males and 18 male-to-females—both before and after treatment with cross-sex hormones. Their results, published in 2013, showed that even before treatment the brain structures of the trans people were more similar in some respects to the brains of their experienced gender than those of their natal gender.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is...e-transgender-brain/

I believe that study actually showed a stronger correlation with sexual orientation than gender identity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987404/

[Anonymous]

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Male and female brains are, on average, slightly different in structure, although there is tremendous individual variability. Several studies have looked for signs that transgender people have brains more similar to their experienced gender. Spanish investigators—led by psychobiologist Antonio Guillamon of the National Distance Education University in Madrid and neuropsychologist Carme Junqué Plaja of the University of Barcelona—used MRI to examine the brains of 24 female-to-males and 18 male-to-females—both before and after treatment with cross-sex hormones. Their results, published in 2013, showed that even before treatment the brain structures of the trans people were more similar in some respects to the brains of their experienced gender than those of their natal gender.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is...e-transgender-brain/

I believe that study actually showed a stronger correlation with sexual orientation than gender identity.

That would be a very narrow interpretation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Male and female brains are, on average, slightly different in structure, although there is tremendous individual variability. Several studies have looked for signs that transgender people have brains more similar to their experienced gender. Spanish investigators—led by psychobiologist Antonio Guillamon of the National Distance Education University in Madrid and neuropsychologist Carme Junqué Plaja of the University of Barcelona—used MRI to examine the brains of 24 female-to-males and 18 male-to-females—both before and after treatment with cross-sex hormones. Their results, published in 2013, showed that even before treatment the brain structures of the trans people were more similar in some respects to the brains of their experienced gender than those of their natal gender.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is...e-transgender-brain/

I believe that study actually showed a stronger correlation with sexual orientation than gender identity.

That would be a very narrow interpretation.

Actually the study pointed out that its weakness was that the early-onset dysphoria patients all went on to show homosexual attraction, whereas their control group were heterosexuals. So the researchers could not tell if the (very, very small) differences they observed were due to cross-sex identification or just sexual orientation.