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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're descending into madness.  Children at the elementary school level transitioning?  Come on, folks, get a grip.

At this age children aren't really aware of concepts like transitioning.  For example, some girls are tomboys.  Some boys aren't interested in boy pursuits.  So what.  Accept them as they are, but don't make an issue out of it.  I was a tomboy as a child, and nobody ever made an issue of it.  I would have been shocked if anyone had started calling me a boy and referring to me as a "he."  I guarantee that will begin to happen with the current madness.

Some of the kids will maybe become gay when they're older, or trans.  So what.

But that's not gonna happen at the elementary school level for the most part.  Don't you people get it?  This is about the media stirring the pot and creating chaos.  The LCPS system is playing right into this fad.  This teacher has the guts to state this policy is ridiculous.[/quote]

And this is why the teacher was a total asshat and shouldn't be working with children.  The appropriate thing to do at that age is just to go with the flow. Not to correct and moralize and tell a kid, "no, you are a boy because you have a penis. Don't tell me otherwise." If the human with a penis wants to be identify as a girl, SO WHAT? Why does the teacher care so much? Either it's a fad that will pass or the kid genuinely identifies as a girl for the rest of her life. But no teacher has any place arguing with a kid like that. It's beyond ridiculous.

In any case, the only reason he won was the policy isn't promulgated yet. If the policy is in place and he follows through on his promise to violate it, he will be fired and it will stick. Also don't forget Virginia is a right-to-work state; the district should be able to fire him for any reason whatsoever.[/quote]

I get what you say about moralizing, but why would a young child want to be identified as other than their gender?  This is not something they think about.

This is a subject that needs to be handled sensitively maybe starting in middle school.  It has no place at the elementary school level.

This is an adult concept that is being foisted and introduced to young children.  They wouldn't be asking to be identified as the opposite gender if the subject were not being foisted on them.

Agree that teachers should not be lecturing students on gender issues.  Neither should any other adults!  Definitely not the media, which is all about $$$$.[/quote]

I don't agree that's being "foisted" on younger children. That's just unsupported nonsense.  It's like suggesting [b]teachers are "indoctrinating" kids[/b]. First, you don't know that "this is nothing something they think about." Of course it is. In fact I'm pretty sure many kids at one point or another have thought, "I wish I were a <other gender>." The only difference is no one is shaming them anymore for having these thoughts now -- excluding intolerant people who hide behind invalid religious "beliefs" or are otherwise thrown into a bizarre panic at the thought of this, as if it actually affects them if little Johnny now wants to be called Johnette and be referred to as s/he.

I mean, when it comes right own to it, the teacher obviously believes that Mary was impregnated by magic and that Jesus was raised from the dead. I mean, he BELIEVES these tenets of his faith. Even though the vast majority of the world doesn't believe that, there is space for him to hold those beliefs and live his life accordingly. So, who is he to tell a child who believes he is a she anything otherwise?

Leave the kids alone. Respect their wishes. Indulge them, if you will. The only "indoctrination" here that's happening is lessons on tolerance and acceptance. Which is a good thing. Any teacher whose "deeply held religious belief" would move them to invalidate a child's stated identity is just an ironically horrible person who by the tenets of his faith is doomed to burn in Hell for all eternity. And shouldn't be teaching.[/quote]

Teachers are indoctrinating kids.  Look no further than schools that are assigning Kendi's "Stamped."  Even the co-author Reynolds calls it indoctrination.  Disgusting.  [/quote]

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