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[quote=Anonymous]PP, but if a student is at a school voluntarily (they don’t have to be at NCS or Stone Ridge or Holton, etc) that caters to one specific gender then they should expect as much. Would you have a problem with STA addressing a room full of their students as “young men”? 
Being at a single gender school is a specific and elective experience. There are more than a large handful of great coeducational schools in DMV, full of people who want to be in a room of fellow students of a variety of genders which a person could apply to and attend. Those students as a group are not referred to girls or boys etc, 
I do think that as individuals people should be recognized as they/ them, etc as they wish no matter which school they are in. People should be always be highly respected as individuals and treated as such. But there is a big jump if language addressing the entire group at a single gender school which is a choice to attend is changed because less than two percent want to change their pronouns. Again, the world does not revolve around one individual, especially when in this instance this is a choice they made to be in a single gender environment in the first place. I think that at a single gender school it is okay to presume people identify as the gender the school was designed to serve. When a family applies to any of these schools it is all about the value of a girls education (this is touted by all of these schools and there is real truth in their statements imo), so by presenting the school this way in admissions the school community is already making a presumption as to who is interested in applying to the school and who will be admitted (those with “girl parts” need only apply) before one even attends. And I see nothing wrong with that at all. Addressing a *group* of classrooms of students as “girls” is simply a continuous expectation of who attends that was set when the school was founded and continues to this day through the way the school is described and promoted. [/quote]

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