People freaked out when my school became trans-inclusive. Here’s how we calmed them down.

[icymist]

The Obama administration issued a guidance earlier this month instructing all public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. And America lost its mind. One politician tweeted, "JFK wanted to send a man to the moon. Obama wants to send a man to the women's restroom. We must get our country back on track." Another declared, "We will not give in to President Obama's attacks on our values."

As a teacher at a public school in Washington, DC, this whole scene felt eerily familiar: I had witnessed something very similar play out on a smaller scale almost a year ago when DC Public Schools issued its transgender guidance policy, a directive nearly identical to the Obama administration's guidance. And folks in our school community went crazy.

People just couldn't understand how, as they put it, we could allow boys to share restrooms with girls or vice versa. Others expressed concern for the safety of our female students, thinking that allowing transgender females in the bathroom with them would put them at risk. Many were just outraged at the concept.

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/23/11720050/transgender-bathroom-public-school

[LuckyLib]

1. This is amazing. A model for what good schools

should be.

[Crash2Parties]

2. Thank you