Anonymous
Post 06/05/2015 08:57     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
God - who cares. Really. I wouldn't give one thought to it.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2015 08:43     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Anonymous wrote:I would have no issue with this. No more than if I found out a teacher had a nose job or gastric bypass. Basically, the measures someone takes to feel good in their own bodies are not any of my business.


THIS.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2015 08:42     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Anonymous wrote:Provided the teacher is a good teacher and my kid likes her (or him, if it was a ftm change), I honestly don't care. It doesn't affect my child in any way whatsoever. If the worst that happens to my DCs in school is having questions about other people being different from them, they'd have had a great childhood and school experience. That is if they even notice - with plenty of transgender people, I'd never realize their birth sex from looking at them.


Oh, right. They're just everywhere. Every second or third person you meet.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2015 08:40     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Provided the teacher is a good teacher and my kid likes her (or him, if it was a ftm change), I honestly don't care. It doesn't affect my child in any way whatsoever. If the worst that happens to my DCs in school is having questions about other people being different from them, they'd have had a great childhood and school experience. That is if they even notice - with plenty of transgender people, I'd never realize their birth sex from looking at them.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2015 22:23     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Janney has one.
She is awesome.
Non issue.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2015 22:22     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No problem with the transgender person. You can go F yourself if you don't like it. Or move to Alabama or Saudi Arabia so you can repress people like that.


Wow. Spoken like a truly dogmatic liberal. I've lived in Saudi Arabia, you have not and you are stereotyping. It is a wonderful, welcoming country. Perhaps more civilized than DC.


Nice try. it's actually a brutal dictatorship where guest workers and women are horribly abused. Do you lobby for them?
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2015 22:12     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Aren't women not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia and they stone you for adultery?
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2015 22:12     Subject: Re:Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
It doesn't matter so long as the teacher is gender-confirming in appearance and behavior after state-sanctioned gender reassignment surgery and corresponding changes to identity documents.

Signed,
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

http://www.salon.com/2005/07/28/iran_transsexuals/

Seriously, OP, are you suggesting the capital of the United States should be less-tolerant than Iran???

This is America, d---n it! What happened to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? What's next, keeping girls who don't wear pink clothes out of school?

Anonymous
Post 06/04/2015 22:11     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Anonymous wrote:How does everyone feel about having a transgendered formerly male teacher in elementary school? DC law would encourage their hiring, however, I would like to know how parents feel about this honestly. I have very mixed feelings. On the one hand, given that students themselves may be confronting and dealing with such issues or may help kids who have a parent that is going through transition, even at an early age, it could be important to have a role model that has been through this sort of thing. Then again, I think it might also bring alot of questions and confusion to kids at an early age before they're ready to deal with this.


I would have no issue with this, my primary focus would be on whether she is a good teacher for my child.

Then again, I am one of those transgender "former males" myself.

And as someone who has had some anxiety about how I, my family and most of all my child will be received upon starting in DCPS because of my life history: thank you for giving me hope, 90%+ of the posters in this thread.



Anonymous
Post 06/04/2015 21:50     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No problem with the transgender person. You can go F yourself if you don't like it. Or move to Alabama or Saudi Arabia so you can repress people like that.


Wow. Spoken like a truly dogmatic liberal. I've lived in Saudi Arabia, you have not and you are stereotyping. It is a wonderful, welcoming country. Perhaps more civilized than DC.


Well at least you didn't try to excuse Alabama.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2015 21:39     Subject: Re:Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Wow. If all of you are as tolerant and open minded to discourse and questioning authority as this board would seem. I don't think I'd want any of you as my neighbors or within miles of my children.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2015 21:37     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No issue with transgender people teaching at all. I do have issue with people like the OP who seem to have issue with it as we see so many of these posts.

Stop obsessing about other people's private parts! I don't care if my teachers were born as unicorns. As long as they are good teachers...whatever.


I fully agree with this poster. Also, it seems that all the time that adults want to validate their prejudices, they mention their kids. hush OP, kids do not care about these things unless an adult teaches them to see things in a different way. Do not project on your kids and help them to be more open minded than you.
(i would have loved to hear my teacher's story of his/her previous life as a unicorn and choosing to become a teacher!! great topic for a story)


I like you.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2015 21:37     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Anonymous wrote:No problem with the transgender person. You can go F yourself if you don't like it. Or move to Alabama or Saudi Arabia so you can repress people like that.


Wow. Spoken like a truly dogmatic liberal. I've lived in Saudi Arabia, you have not and you are stereotyping. It is a wonderful, welcoming country. Perhaps more civilized than DC.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2015 21:35     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
Anonymous wrote:No problem with the transgender person. You can go F yourself if you don't like it. Or move to Alabama or Saudi Arabia so you can repress people like that.


More "tolerance" of course...
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2015 21:34     Subject: Transgendered formerly Male Teachers in Elementary School
No problem with the transgender person. You can go F yourself if you don't like it. Or move to Alabama or Saudi Arabia so you can repress people like that.