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Ummm... This is a federal requirement. FCPS doesn't follow the law, they lose a ton of $$-- Title I & IDEA funds come to mind. But that's just the start. So: serious question before I sign. What is the plan to make this money up after FCPS gives the federal government the middle finger?


There's no plan, of course

Neither is there a plan of how this policy is to be implemented. As far as I know, they still haven't defined the terms. Example: what does it take to claim a "gender identity" that is not your biological sex? Can it change from year to year, week to week, day to day? This sounds silly--but it is a valid question.

How will this affect Title IX? How will it affect girls' sports? etc. If you don't want your daughter sharing a hotel room on a school trip with a transgender girl--can you object?

When this controversy first happened, there was a young lady who spoke at the school board meeting who did a separate interview on channel 4.

She stated that she was gender fluid, that some days she identified as a girl and some days she identified as a boy, and it changed from day to day. I believe the interview day she identified las a girl but it has been a while

What's your point?

Have they figured out gender fluidity?

Will a gender fluid teen be able to one day use the boys locker room one day and girls the next depending on how they feel each day?

Or girls volleyball because she feels like a girl in the fall but boys baseball in the spring?

If they have a plan they need to be open with parents.

So glad my story has turned into one parallel to a comercial.

I change in a separate room for gym and have a key to a single user restroom. ((was once a staff restroom before a renovation.))
I suggest you get a hobby if you find yourself so concerned with just when my anxiety, body dysphoria will ebb to a point where I'd hurt your kid.

A lot of gender non-binary and trans students (please dissect that word before ripping my head off) are more paranoid that someone will draw attention to our mismatching bodies than you are of us misusing the system.

Anonymous wrote:What do you want to bet that the "citizen participation" portion is filled with the same actors as the last time the Board discussed this? Funny, how the other side never seems to get on the list.

You mean the transphobic side that is always speaking? I agree, they need to stop talking.

What do you want to bet that the "citizen participation" portion is filled with the same actors as the last time the Board discussed this? Funny, how the other side never seems to get on the list.

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Anonymous wrote:I talked to my SB member. Her comment was the guideline is in line with federal guidelines. They shall ignore the petition.

They would have ignored the petition in any case. The SB never takes citizen input seriously.

They know this change is unpopular, which is why it will be passed in the dead of summer at an non-televised event.

When everyone goes back to school and starts to wake up, it will be a done deal.

I pity the poor school administrators who will have to work within this ill conceived policy.

Unpopular with whom? The crazies on DCUM? I'm an FCPS parent and I don't know one person IRL who has any issue with it.

I'm a FCPS parent too and I don't know ANY parent who is okay with how the board is handling this situation! This is being done wrong and it's turning reasonable people into frustrated angry people ON BOTH SIDES. Violence has been committed against those against the Board business and we all see the yelling from those in the meeting.

Just follow procedure, FCPS Board of Education! Stop sneaking around.