Yes. My not-well-articulated point was that the School Board did try to hush it up, but not because the boy identified other than male. They handled it poorly all the way around.
(Disclosure: I live in Loudoun County and do not have children in the school system.)
Yes. My not-well-articulated point was that the School Board did try to hush it up, but not because the boy identified other than male. They handled it poorly all the way around.
(Disclosure: I live in Loudoun County and do not have children in the school system.)
OK, it would not surprise me at all if a school district tried to "hush up" an assault by a "boy wearing a skirt" because of the immediate speculations that this had something to do with trans kids using a bathroom matching their identity. (gender fluid is a much broader category than trans. It includes bi, which keeps the outward forms of born gender but "swings both ways" and asexual, where the individual doesn't identify particularly with EITHER gender in a sexual way. You probably know a lot of the latter--they just don't talk about it. They can even be married, for social, not sexual, reasons.)
A lot of the recent articles were talking about mishandling an assault by a TEACHER (not identified as trans). It sounds like the district was mainly not facing the problem of assaults, period.
I am befuddled by all the "anti trans" sentiment. There are violent people of ALL gender persuasions. But by and large, unless they are activists I think most trans people just keep their heads down and get on with their lives. I can't see that they are hurting anyone. I don't care if one's personal morality doesn't like them--that's an individual right. But LAWS that persecute?
I donтАЩt understand it, either. People are people. And frankly, IтАЩm more concerned about a White guy (old or not) carrying a gun than I am about someoneтАЩs sexual identity.
Yes. My not-well-articulated point was that the School Board did try to hush it up, but not because the boy identified other than male. They handled it poorly all the way around.
(Disclosure: I live in Loudoun County and do not have children in the school system.)
OK, it would not surprise me at all if a school district tried to "hush up" an assault by a "boy wearing a skirt" because of the immediate speculations that this had something to do with trans kids using a bathroom matching their identity. (gender fluid is a much broader category than trans. It includes bi, which keeps the outward forms of born gender but "swings both ways" and asexual, where the individual doesn't identify particularly with EITHER gender in a sexual way. You probably know a lot of the latter--they just don't talk about it. They can even be married, for social, not sexual, reasons.)
A lot of the recent articles were talking about mishandling an assault by a TEACHER (not identified as trans). It sounds like the district was mainly not facing the problem of assaults, period.
I am befuddled by all the "anti trans" sentiment. There are violent people of ALL gender persuasions. But by and large, unless they are activists I think most trans people just keep their heads down and get on with their lives. I can't see that they are hurting anyone. I don't care if one's personal morality doesn't like them--that's an individual right. But LAWS that persecute?
I donтАЩt understand it, either. People are people. And frankly, IтАЩm more concerned about a White guy (old or not) carrying a gun than I am about someoneтАЩs sexual identity.