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I'm not the PP but I'll explain it to you. [b]Those kids who answered the survey, regardless of how they were identified or whether they're influenced by their parents, count too[/b]. Okay, they're misguided or wrong or too religious or whatever. The fact is, they're students in APS too and they're NOT saying trans kids don't have a right to exist or should be bullied or mistreated. They're presumably just trying to understand how this policy fits with their own conceptions of privacy, religion, competition, and expression of their viewpoints. Why do they deserve to be run over in favor of the other set of kids demanding the policy that flies in the face of what the first kids belief in?

I assume your answer is, because they're bigoted. Well, that pretty much proves their point about being stigmatized if they disagree with the policy. You can think they're flat wrong and the new generation of racists if you want, but you can't deny that anyone who raises any question about this policy is slandered as a bigot.

You all can tell yourselves you're on the front lines of the new civil rights movement to validate your efforts here, but this is a difficult and nuanced issue. Treating people who disagree or simply don't have the experience with these issues as pariahs is not helping.[/quote]

No.

You don't get statistics.

You can't pick your own sample of people to answer a survey and say "97% of kids feel this way."

Yes, individual kids count. But picking a sample of people to survey of your choosing, because you know they'll answer a certain way, is meaningless.

There are 28,000 kids in APS.

Asking 90 of them from your church how they feel means absolutely nothing as far as understanding how a typical APS kid feels.
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