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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Nuance" is how "anti" groups attempt to veil their biases. But if you ask certain churches that claim "all are welcome" if they have gay people in leadership roles or if they would perform a wedding for a couple in which one member is nonbinary, you find out the truth pretty fast, assuming you can pry a yes-no answer out of them.

Does Rives think a school's first duty is to the well-being of the student, or should parental preferences outweigh that?[/quote]

I see it as the other way around. Any attempt at a nuanced answer that isn’t lock-step with the prevailing ideas results in accusations of someone being anti trans/racist/whatever. [b]This is done to shut down any true back and forth conversation [/b]& maintain control of the preferred narrative. [/quote]

At some point, decisions have to be made. So if someone has to vote on whether school staff will preserve confidentiality for a trans student who believes telling their parents would be dangerous to them, should the policy be not to tell the parents, or should the parents' "right to know" trump that?

If a student does not want to change in a particular dressing room, should the school provide that? If a student objects to the presence of someone they consider inappropriately gendered for the space, should the student who objects be provided with another place to change, or should the student they object to be required to change elsewhere?

Discuss it all you want before voting, but you will have to vote. [/quote]

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