Friday, August 28, 2015

Good!

Maybe schools are starting to get the message.
Alaska school district policies embrace transgender students & employees
Christian Examiner
By Kelly Ledbetter
27 August, 2015

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Christian Examiner) – A controversial new "don't-ask" policy towards which paves the way for transgender and gender nonconforming students and employees to choose facilities based on preference and not on gender has been published by the Anchorage School District (ASD).

The administrative guidelines provide that students may use sex-specific locations like restrooms or locker rooms according to their preference and that they may be addressed by the name or pronoun of their choice.

The guidelines are so broad that transgender students do not have to provide a reason for their request to use a different sex-specific facility.
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ASD executive director Margo Bellamy, who ensures Title IX and EEO compliance, told Alaska Dispatch News, "It's the same as what we do to make sure kids are not discriminated against because of race or nationality or ability."

Bellamy said all students are protected from sharing share a locker room with someone who makes them uncomfortable. In the 2014-2015 academic year, Bellamy assisted with 102 cases regarding transgender issues for students or employees, almost 100 more than the district handled in 2008.
They got it right! If any student feels uncomfortable they can request to change or go the bathroom in a single stall bathroom.

Many school policies for the trans student to either use the staff facilities or a single stall bathroom or as in one case a janitor’s closet and that is wrong and violates the law. But the Anchorage school district school policy allow trans students to choose the facility that they are most comfortable using, some trans people are comfortable using private facilities. The policy also allows cisgender students to use single person facilities.

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