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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are they saying that they want to start admitting actual boys to the school, or just abandon the word "girls," out of respect to girls who don't identify as girls?[/quote]

If you don't identify as a girl then you need to go to a different school.  A girl's school is for girls.[/quote]

Makes sense to me, because I am a normal person.  But those on the left will call you a bigot for saying that![/quote]

I’m on the left and I think a girls’ school is for girls. If it’s legal to have an all girls school and not legally considered discrimination to refuse admission to boys, then they don’t have to allow people who aren’t girls to attend. Period. Therefore, there’s no reason to remove “girls,” “young ladies,” “young women,” or “females” from their publications.

People should be free to identify as whatever gender they want. I’ll do my best to honor one’s chosen pronouns — within reason. However, the popularity of claiming gender fluidity has gotten ridiculous. There are students at my dd’s middle school (public, so I probably shouldn’t be posting in this forum) who identified as girls until 7th grade. Now, in 8th grade, they wear different colored bracelets on different days to indicate which pronouns they feel like using on a given day. They decided to go by different names that sounded more gender neutral to them. Somewhere around the beginning of the second quarter, one of them announced that they will now be going by two different names (neither one their given name), depending on which they feel like that day. Because there is a teacher who is very supportive of LGBTQ+ students, they asked the teacher to check in with them each day so teacher knows which name to use. That’s beyond ridiculous.

My dd used to be supportive of the rights of transgender and non-binary people, but at this point, she just rolls her eyes at these students because she thinks they’re starved for attention and absolutely desperate to be different and special, and that they are being disingenuous about their gender identities. I worry that having so many kids jump on the gender identity bandwagon will make my kids unsympathetic to people who are truly struggling with their gender identities and not just trying out something trendy.

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