BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts education department has issued directives on how schools should treat transgender students, including allowing them to use the bathroom of whatever sex they identify as.
The guidance by the department was issued Friday to help schools follow the requirements of the state’s 2011 anti-discrimination law protecting transgender people.
The directive also said schools should allow students to participate on the sports teams of whatever sex they identify as.
Andrew Beckwith of the Massachusetts Family Institute said the department is protecting transgender students at the expense of the safety and privacy of other students.
Gunner Scott of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition said the guidance is welcomed by transgender students and their parents, who often worry if their children will be safe at school.
so then we will have “boys” going in with girls and “girls” going in with boys,…. I wonder how comfortable that will be for others… and not to mention why label then?
If schools would do a lesson on what it means to be transgender early on, like with the puberty classes they start around third grade then I don’t think it would be much of an issue with the kids. It’s the parents that will flip out. The children would see it as normal as long as their ignorant/transphobic parents don’t brainwash them to believe different.
Prejudice is taught, it’s not something children are born with.
Do you guys post these kinds of stories later at night on intentionally so not as many people will read them and be aware of what’s going on?
Wow.. What about the rights of the kids that don’t want boy’s in the girl’s room and girl’s in the boy’s room.. Some kid’s would do it just so they could try to see each other..
I think they should have one bathroom in the buildings that is coed and the others boys and girls.That way everyone has a choice and noones rights or safty is an issue!
Sounds like a *** bar bathroom to me.
Going to be an interesting locker room
Boys will be girls and girls will be boys.
People..get over it! You are worrying about kids “seeing each other” , im sure they can come up with other ways to “see each other” if they really wanted to! Kids are not stupid, they will figure out a way if they want to. I really wish this world wasn’t filled with so many ignorant people who have such stupid opinions on things that does not matter! Your children are healthy, you should be greatful!!! Move on .
I watched a show on 20 20 the other nite on a transgender boy. Very interesting. I didn’t realize there were so many that the state had to make this ruling?
That’s the problem in the world too many people are moving on! Letting what some may call a little issue slip through the cracks and than it turn’s into a much bigger issue there is a much deeper issue at hand here and some people do not care to take the time, to address at this level and when it becomes more intertwined and alot more right’s of other’s who don’t agree than what? I think a coed bathroom is a good idea.. Kid’s are going through enough now aday’s and some parent’s think that just because a child is healthy on the inside that thing’s of this matter doesn’t effect their psychological level.. I have way too much research ,to expond on this page ..with that being said please look into the cause and effect of this matter in the long term affects it will have on our children and their psychological out come, and where this little issue turn’s into..
I don’t think anyone would pretend to be transgender to go into a bathroom or locker room. Do you have any idea the hell these kids are going through? I agree with Amanda – if kids were taught early on what this means, it wouldn’t be a problem. Sure there will be moments of embarrassment, but our kids are resilient.