Gay-Friendly Schools That Are Not Super-Woke?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Advocating for civil rights or against oppressive legislation is "proselytizing"?

What civil rights do they not have?

Neither sexual orientation nor gender identity is considered a federal suspect class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Advocating for civil rights or against oppressive legislation is "proselytizing"?

What civil rights do they not have?

Neither sexual orientation nor gender identity is considered a federal suspect class.

Thank you, my fellow lawyer!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm looking for a gay-friendly school for my 8th grade son. Our family is not politically left-wing, and I don't want my son in a school where they teach about 100 different gender identities, "white fragility", and other associated stuff. I am fine with who he is, but I don't want him making his sexuality his entire personality.

Are there moderate schools that will be accepting of a gay child but aren't hyper-left wing on cultural issues? We just need him to be supported and respected. We aren't looking for much more.

I hope you end up in the
“wokest” school there is.

Thanks for the sarcasm, and for affirming the perception that the woke angenda crowd are mean, nasty people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please don’t send him to a school where the majority of the culture supports politicians and leaders who are actively working to make your son’s life worse. You don’t need to go full stop on the DEI agenda but think about it, you want a place that supports your son and the LGBTQ which is exactly what other parents want for their kids too and the DEI work is actively working to do that.

This is DC, where barely 6% of registered voters are Republican. There are no such schools.

DP. I disagree. Those 6% apply by the hundreds to certain schools and many end up getting admitted. One in particular I know of many students and parents who are openly homophobic.

Is that the "majority of the culture" though?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Advocating for civil rights or against oppressive legislation is "proselytizing"?

What civil rights do they not have?

Neither sexual orientation nor gender identity is considered a federal suspect class.

DP: You mean a federally protected class. And in Bostock the Supreme Court answered that in the affirmative: Sexual orientation and gender identity are protected; also state laws to the contrary have all bee struck down as violating the equal protection clause.

But the fight continues as people are always trying to wiggle around the law and Constitution (see, e.g., the Trump administration).

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/beyond-bostock-future-lgbtq-civil-rights/

[Anonymous]

It's a term of art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspect_classification

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My gay friends (in their 50’s) find the current leftist gender identity stuff maddening. They are both rather conservative, upper class, and find discussing sexual preference at work or in public to be distasteful.

If any of this resonates with OP, I’d look at one of the more traditional boys schools. Sexuality is a private matter. -I’m leaving the thread now!

My gay son finds people like your friends, with their “rights for me but not for thee” view of queer identity to be maddening.

Sexuality is emphatically not a private matter when 29% of trans youth have attempted suicide due to bullying.

Here’s an idea — instead of trying to silence the people pointing out oppression, maybe work on stopping the oppression?

Please stop, seriously.

I won’t stop advocating against the current overwhelming rise in anti-LGBTQ hate and violence. How about you stop advocating for silence in the face of that hate and violence?

I wasn't aware that there is currently an overwhelming rise in anti-LGBTQ hate and violence. without attacking me for asking the question, can you explain what you mean?

New poster here. https://abcnews.go.com/US/rise-anti-lgbtq-hate-extremism-captured-new-reports/story?id=100304706

One of many links I found.

Parents opposing drag queen story hour for kids isn’t exactly a hate crime.

Is is when those parents are “Moms for Liberty” — an organization with strong ties to white nationalists whose members have specifically advocated curtailing the rights of kids like mine and worked actively to deny health care to other kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So gay-friendly enough to accept your kid, but not “so woke” that other gay kids are accepted.

Got it.

Right? lol This is the most absurd thing that I have read today.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My gay friends (in their 50’s) find the current leftist gender identity stuff maddening. They are both rather conservative, upper class, and find discussing sexual preference at work or in public to be distasteful.

If any of this resonates with OP, I’d look at one of the more traditional boys schools. Sexuality is a private matter. -I’m leaving the thread now!

My gay son finds people like your friends, with their “rights for me but not for thee” view of queer identity to be maddening.

Sexuality is emphatically not a private matter when 29% of trans youth have attempted suicide due to bullying.

Here’s an idea — instead of trying to silence the people pointing out oppression, maybe work on stopping the oppression?

Please stop, seriously.

I won’t stop advocating against the current overwhelming rise in anti-LGBTQ hate and violence. How about you stop advocating for silence in the face of that hate and violence?

I wasn't aware that there is currently an overwhelming rise in anti-LGBTQ hate and violence. without attacking me for asking the question, can you explain what you mean?

New poster here. https://abcnews.go.com/US/rise-anti-lgbtq-hate-extremism-captured-new-reports/story?id=100304706

One of many links I found.

Parents opposing drag queen story hour for kids isn’t exactly a hate crime.

Is is when those parents are “Moms for Liberty” — an organization with strong ties to white nationalists whose members have specifically advocated curtailing the rights of kids like mine and worked actively to deny health care to other kids.

What is your kid, what rights were curtailed, and what health care was denied?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So gay-friendly enough to accept your kid, but not “so woke” that other gay kids are accepted.

Got it.

This.

OP wants a unicorn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So gay-friendly enough to accept your kid, but not “so woke” that other gay kids are accepted.

Got it.

This.

OP wants a unicorn.

to some people, there is a difference between a person who happens to be gay and just wants to go to school and be himself/herself, as opposed to people who want to make a political statement by forcing drag queen story hour and cross-over bathrooms. people in the first category may be MORE offended by people in the second category than a straight person would be.

you can mock the OP all you like, but I get what she is asking and I think it is a valid question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm looking for a gay-friendly school for my 8th grade son. Our family is not politically left-wing, and I don't want my son in a school where they teach about 100 different gender identities, "white fragility", and other associated stuff. I am fine with who he is, but I don't want him making his sexuality his entire personality.

Are there moderate schools that will be accepting of a gay child but aren't hyper-left wing on cultural issues? We just need him to be supported and respected. We aren't looking for much more.

I don't know if you can have both. Pick a labe op. More conservative and unwelcoming or liberal and horrora..."woke"

[Anonymous]

Burke is woke but you might like it anyway. Some conservative families really like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t know if it was already mentioned on this long thread… but St. Anselms, all boys Catholic 6-12th. Very welcoming and allllll kinds of kids there.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So gay-friendly enough to accept your kid, but not “so woke” that other gay kids are accepted.

Got it.

This.

OP wants a unicorn.

to some people, there is a difference between a person who happens to be gay and just wants to go to school and be himself/herself, as opposed to people who want to make a political statement by forcing drag queen story hour and cross-over bathrooms. people in the first category may be MORE offended by people in the second category than a straight person would be.

you can mock the OP all you like, but I get what she is asking and I think it is a valid question.

Sometimes the Overton window needs to be shifted. It's been such a winning strategy for the right-wing, I don't know why everyone clutches their pearls when the left tries to do it too.