Posted on 06/19/2023 10:35:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Parents who send their kids to New York public schools have lots to worry about. Is he really learning? Is she really safe? And: Is the school gender-transitioning my child behind my back?
Earlier this week, the New York State Department of Education (NYSED) published a “legal update and best practice” document for how schools should serve “transgender and gender expansive” students. The key takeaway: if your child decides that he or she wants to socially transition to the opposite gender, it is now a “best practice” for the school to lie to you about it.
“Only the student,” the NYSED declares, “knows whether it is safe to share their identity with a caregiver.” The baseline assumption, then, is that “unaffirming” parents are dangerous to their children. If Kevin wants to go by “Kimi” but doesn’t want his parents to know, the best practice, according to NYSED, is as follows: “The teachers call her Kimi and use she/her pronouns at school. When calling home for any reason, teachers use the name Kevin and he/him pronouns.”
Leading experts like Hilary Cass, a medical doctor who documented rampant malpractice in England’s Tavistock child gender clinic, have explained that social transition is not a neutral act but rather an active psychosocial and arguably even medical intervention. Finnish medical authorities have discouraged gender self-identification for children, recognizing its potential to disrupt healthy development and result in unnecessary medicalization. While activists believe that transition is beneficial to mental health, a new study in the U.K. finds no improvement for socially transitioned kids relative to control groups. Evidence suggests that treating children as if they are the opposite sex can cause their feelings of gender dysphoria to persist and increase the likelihood that they will seek experimental hormonal intervention.
If the NYSED has its way, schools will also effectively market experimental hormonal interventions. Its new policy recommends that all schools, at a minimum, adhere to the guidelines of the National Sex Education Standards, which state that children should learn about puberty blockers by fifth grade. It may be doubted whether schools would provide the full medical picture concerning the use of puberty blockers, including the lack of evidence for their benefits, the serious long-term side effects, and the near-certain progression to cross-sex hormones that can cause permanent sexual dysfunction and sterility.
The lawsuits will collapse the state. Maybe that is the intent. A Cloward-Piven strategy to overwhelm the existing system.
Lynching of Fakeriarchy champions should be deemed legally justified.
Stay away from my grandchildren if they know what’s good for them
““Only the student,” the NYSED declares, “knows whether it is safe to share their identity with a caregiver.””
This isn’t about student safety. It’s about being woke and recruiting children for the trans-maniacs.
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Couldn't happen to a more deserving state......
Schools were not established to *serve* the students.
They were established to actually educate them to be literate with an actual education, not indoctrination.
Not old enough to drink.
Not old enough to vote.
Not old enough to serve in the military.
Not old enough to own a gun.
Not old enough to have sex. (Legally)
Old enough to pick their gender.
No news is no bad news: New York State delays release of public school test scores
They are not delaying because it is good news.
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