Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Why Does It Take A Rap On The Head?

It is against Colorado law

It is against federal law

But it still took a complaint filed with the Office of Civil Rights.

According to Fox News in Denver,
BOULDER, Colo. — This summer Boulder Valley School District will be extending staff training to better support transgender and gender questioning students all the way down to elementary schools.

The move comes in response to a local mother who filed a federal civil rights complaint after her children encountered problems at Creekside Elementary.
[…]
Kai’s wake-up call happened a year ago. The family fully embraced Elsa as a girl. At the same time, 8-year-old Sky decided not to select a gender, also referred to as gender queer.

“Sky was assigned male at birth but is increasingly saying, ‘Don’t use those male pronouns on me. I haven’t figured this stuff out yet,’” Kai said.

That explanation wasn’t easily understood when the siblings enrolled at Creekside Elementary in February.
Then the bullying started and the school did nothing. The mother tried to get the school to comply with the law but still the school did nothing, so the mother filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights and now the school has seen the light. They have started to train their staff…
“As soon as I put in that complaint (the district) found the funding in two days to train staff,” McKenzie said.
Amazing!

Nowhere, in Connecticut or any other state, nor the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights say anything about only applying to the gender binary, Title IX and the state laws cover gender fluid children as well as those children who conform to the gender binary.

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