Minnesota Teachers to Stop Referring to Children as ‘Boys’ and ‘Girls’


Without trying to sound like antiquarians, it is easy for most of us to imagine what would have happened when we were in high school had we suggested that our genders were in flux, and thus we wished to shower after gym class with members of the opposite sex. Yet this is precisely what is happening with school district approval.

A Minnesota Department of Education advisory council voted to approve a new toolkit for “Safe and Supportive Schools for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students” in front of a room of more than 200 opponents and advocates of LGBTQ issues Wednesday.

The toolkit, approved by the School Safety Technical Assistance Council, is a nonbinding guide with information about providing welcoming environments for all students and guidelines for school officials to support transgender and gender-nonconforming students.

What is a “gender-nonconforming student?” And how does one “accommodate” such a student? While bullying or any other form of hostile behavior, verbal or otherwise, should be forbidden, how does one provide a “welcoming environment” for such students, especially considering the fact that the creation of such an environment is not done in a vacuum, but impacts other students?

“Concerns of gender-conforming students and parents are ignored and dismissed” by the toolkit, said John Helmberger, CEO of the Minnesota Family Council.

Indeed. Yet in its rush to embrace every conceivable form of sexual expression, the left has abandoned societal norms in favor of cultural and societal anarchy.

The debate is heated, as expected.

Stakeholders in Anoka-Hennepin hotly debated the use of bathrooms by transgender young people earlier this year.

Dave Edwards from Transforming Families MN and parent of a transgender child, said 1,050 parents signed a petition supporting the toolkit.

Reps. Tim Miller, R-Prinsburg, and Abigail Whelan, R-Ramsey, spoke against the toolkit. Miller said he could confidently say that no one in his district, which includes Renville and Chippewa counties, is in favor of the toolkit.

The fact that we are even discussing such matters is a measure of our far our society has fallen. One can be drawn to wonder, “what’s next?” Yet that thought is too terrifying to contemplate.

Source: Star Tribune



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