School Board's adoption of LGBTQ+ guide turns teachers into gender police Opinion

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In June, the Leon County School Board adopted an “LGBTQ Inclusive School Guide” containing a provision that will cause schools to notify parents, in writing, if their student takes a PE class or goes on an overnight trip with another student who is “open about their gender identity”.

As both a gay alumnus of Leon High School (Class of 1995), and as a former high school teacher, I beg the Leon County School Board not to enact this policy.

In schools, parents are notified if their student might do something that involves some risk, such as a rock-climbing trip. But this new policy frames the mere existence of LGBTQ kids as a risk, and that is the last kind of messaging that LGBTQ kids need to hear.

According to research conducted by The Trevor Project, suicide attempt rates for LGBTQ youth are four times above those of their straight/cisgender peers. These alarming rates are lessened by the presence of even one supportive adult in an LGBTQ child’s life.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/school-board-adoption-lgbtq-guide-100058662.html

[msongs]

1. so when kids claim they are heterosexual all the parents have to be notified?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. What would logically follow from the snippet in the article is that when someone ID's as a gender

Parents must be notified.

I do wonder the full context though because the snippet looks incredibly stupid, so much so that I have trouble believing anyone would say that

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. I'd hate to see what the 'non-inclusive' guide looks like ...

Unbelievable asshattery right here.

[amb123]

4. Such "guidelines" lead to Gestapos.

[lambchopp59]

5. Survivor of heteronormative enforcement

Every attempt to change my orientation in my youth, by parents, peers and general heteronormative, taunting society only caused me indescribable misery.
At 16, having a knotted rope I'd utilized to climb into an incognito crawl space in the city, feeling free of overwhelming redneck-idiot bashing for the first time in 2 miserable years since my closet door was ripped open: a morning of uncertainty, of "now what", of wondering if all the homophobic shit thrown at me wasn't correct, maybe just hanging myself would be the easy way out.
But soon hunger and appetite for adventure drove me to climb back down, initiating the most fantastic homeless venture of my life.
Discovering I wasn't alone, I wasn't a freak who didn't deserve to live, that their heteronormative enforcement was the delusion, not my life.
Fukk fukk fukk every last heteronormative motherfucker who thinks they'll change us, "fix" us, enforce conformist shit on everyone. You fascist motherfuckers have so much blood on your hands you refuse to see as you praise your homophobic Jeebus cross then stick pins into your voodoo victims.
So much blood that will never wash off your souls.
Every complaint filed against rainbow flag displays may as well be a Nazi salute.
Sorry. The PTSD scars have me awake tonight.

[Timeflyer]

6. Result of DeSatan authoritarian tactics

Growing up isn't tough enough on kids for Rotten Ron D.. He'd step over dead bodies of children to perpetuate fear and manipulate his base. Authoritarian and proud. Goddess help save U.S. democracy from cruel, power-mad thugs like him.