Washington State Orders Teachers to Hide Kindergarteners’ Gender Transition From Their Parents – Opinion

In Washington state, the government’s trying to protect children — from their parents.

This is true for intimate information.

As reported by The Daily Wire, the state is ordering teachers to hide students’ gender transitions from their parents unless the child says it’s okay to tell.

The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction boasts a webpage devoted to “gender-inclusive schools.”

“Gender identity and gender expression,” the site says, “are protected classes under Washington state law, which means schools cannot discriminate against students based on their gender identity or gender expression.”

All students have the right to be treated consistently with their gender identity at school and express their gender at school…

How does this work?

Where discourse is concerned, “Students have the right to be addressed by their requested name, pronoun (e.g., he/him, she/her, they/them, etc.), and gender designation.”

Additional allowances

• Restrooms.All students in public schools should have the right to use the toilet that corresponds with their gender identity. Any student—transgender or not—who requests greater privacy for any reason should be given access to an alternative restroom, such as a staff restroom or health office restroom, if one is available. School staff can’t require students to use alternative toilets because they are transgender, gender-different or otherwise identify with them.
• Locker Rooms Public schools should provide access to the locker room that corresponds to a student’s gender identity. Students who are transgender, or those not, may be able to use a separate changing area or a privacy area such as a restroom with either a door or a curtain.
• Sports & Physical Education Classes.Every student in public schools should be allowed to engage in sports and exercise that is compatible with their gender identity.

The page features a section called “Communicated with Families”:

“Sometimes,” it notes, “transgender students may not want their families to know that they are transgender or that they use a different name, pronouns, and gender designation at school. Often, this is because they are concerned about a lack of familial acceptance and the resulting impact on their safety and well-being at home.”

Hence:

[T]he right to be treated consistent with one’s gender identity at school belongs to the student. In order to protect the student’s health, safety, and privacy, schools are strongly encouraged to ask the student which name, pronouns, and gender designation should be used when communicating with parents and guardians before such communications take place, in order to avoid unintentionally outing the student at home.

We’ve come quite a ways in a very short time. Family was once considered to be the foundation for society.

Temporarily the government seems to be of the opinion it should take over. The relationship between child and state is most important. Parents may still have some rights.

As for gender identity, of course, until very recently, such a thing effectively didn’t exist. “Gender” was a grammatical term.

Schools classify children solely based on their biological sex.

Public education was not able to address personal information such as sexual preferences and self-perception.

Many would agree that the older way was much simpler.

But simplicity doesn’t appear to be the priority these days.

Washington’s guide applies to every grade, including kindergarten.

-ALEX

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