Posted on 02/08/2018 5:38:35 AM PST by outpostinmass2
A Swampscott elementary school principal recently came out as transgender, according to letters released to the school community on Feb. 6 and, a day later, to the press.
“I can now say it: I am transgender,” wrote Shannon Daniels, 52, principal of Swampscott’s Stanley Elementary School and who formerly went by the name Tom, in a letter to the community. “For me that means I identify as both a male and female, and I plan to move toward presenting myself and identifying as female.”
Daniels wrote of struggling with her gender identity since she was in elementary school, suppressing the feelings for more than 40 years .
“While I was successful to a degree, I have never felt completely happy or at peace,” the principal wrote in her letter to the school community Feb. 6. “I got to the point that I thought I would never be able to reveal my true self. Frankly, the prospect of doing so was terrifying.”
She goes on to note her public announcement was met with nothing but support from the school that she leads.
“The wonderful Stanley School community is incredibly warm and accepting,” she writes. “I am proud to be the leader of this school, and I sincerely believe that the ability to live my life openly and authentically gives me great serenity and will make me a more sensitive, empathetic and effective leader.
She ended with a request: “I humbly ask that you support me as you would any family member going through a profound life change.”
As the principal’s identity transitions physically, she offered a trio of ways for parents to relay the changes to their children:
“There are many different ways boys and girls express themselves. It is important that we accept everyone as they are.” “Principal Daniels may look and sound different, but inside, Principal Daniels is the same, caring person.” “This doesn’t change the fact that Stanley School is a great place to be and learn.” “Principal Daniels has shared with us the intensely personal decision to identify as transgender,” wrote Swampscott Superintendent Pamela Angelakis in a letter to the Swampscott Community. “This will mark the beginning of an important community dialogue on the issue.”
With that said, Angelakis noted the Swampscott Public Schools will be providing opportunities for education and conversation about this topic in the near future.
She applaued Daniels and stated her admiration for the principal’s “courage, honesty and transparency”
“Principal Daniels has committed to being honest and transparent throughout this personal journey,” said Angelakis. “I will certainly do the same from the district’s perspective.”
So glad I left Massachusetts.
Elementary school children are old enough to react to this situation with a phrase I heard frequently when my children were of that age: “Ooo gross!”
I wonder how low they will sink. Can you get any lower?
And it teaches in our schools.
And our schools are so very desperate for teachers that they will accept anything for any position.
Standards?
They don’t need no stinkin’ standards.
“For me that means I identify as both a male and female, and I plan to move toward presenting myself and identifying as female.”
What it means is you are a swishy little faggot.
The thing is 52 years old.
Life imitates South Park.
30 years ago, they would have called this person crazy, and moved him away from children.
Now, they stand and applaud.
“The thing is 52 years old.”
Indeed.
Which makes it THING instead of thing.
The next bridge they will cross id it’s OK to be a pediofile ...
It’s Massachusetts. I’m surprised he did not discover he was an Indian too.
And that should have resulted in immediate firing for morals clause, risk to kids, and apparent deception up to this point. Lying, emotionally challenged, perverts have no business in our schools.
And what are the parents of elementary aged girls saying about a 52 year old man using the same restroom as their daughters?
The legalization of beastiality, interspecies marriage and sex with infants and children is on the horizon.
A mentally ill elementary school principal. What next LIB losers?
A PERFECT example of why there should be NO “transgender ‘rights’”
Drain the Swampscott.
She-he-it happens.
You are fired and should not be allowed within 100 foot of a school zone.
Remember when boys at that age would pick on other boys “Ooooo you’re a GIRL” (or sissy or girlie, etc.)
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