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[quote=Anonymous]Lets not forget the core of the issue.  The petition doesn't call out any of the regulations designed to help the transgender student.

At issue, is the many kids who for one reason or another, have modesty requirements in front of the opposite sex.  Even Islam has separate rules for between the same, and opposite sex.  Acceptable cultural practices, even in the USA, have long been to be modest in front of the opposite sex.

Like it or not, there are a lot of students and families that have this strict requirement.  They can't compromise that.  The school board needs to respect that, and form policies around the reality that exists in the school system.

Sure there are transgender students too.  If they have very huge issues changing with the same anatomical sex, perhaps they should be accommodated somehow, but not at the expense of the rest of the students, those with religious mandates tell them they can't compromise, they shouldn't be compelled by the system to compromise what they can't do.  The schools can't rewrite religious practices, and it's many different religions that dictates modesty, it's a fairly common ground among most religions.

I could posture a guess, which I would think of the 168,000 students, 50,000-100,000 or more want to be sex segregated.  Statistically there is maybe 50-100 transgender students in the school system, of which some would prefer to be with the same anatomical sex, some would want private space, leaving only a few that are asking to be with the opposite sex.  There has to be a better solution than letting these few step on the rights of many.

Especially since what they are asking for has not been the acceptable practice.  Kids that age aren't allowed into a movie to see full frontal nudity of the opposite sex, why should they be subjected to it in the school in person.

If anyone hasn't signed the petition, go do it.  The whole way this is being done, is wrong.

https://www.change.org/p/school-board-for-fairfax-county-public-schools-respect-all-student-rights-in-the-fcps-gender-identity-non-discrimination-policy
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