Colorado School District Is Concealing Student Gender Transitions From Parents

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A Colorado School District Is Concealing Student Gender Transitions From Parents

Madeline Leesman
April 29, 2023

In recent years, several school districts have been ousted for keeping parents in the dark about their child’s gender transitions at school. As Townhall has covered, school districts in Virginia, Kansas, and California were exposed for concealing this information from parents. And last year, Republican Sen. Tim Scott (SC) introduced legislation that would prevent schools from hiding information about a student’s gender identity from their parents.

Documents obtained from parental rights organization Parents Defending Education and reviewed by Townhall show that Pueblo School District 60 in Colorado has guidelines to keep students’ “gender identity” secret from their parents.

According to documents obtained by PDE, the school’s “Supporting Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students and Staff” guidelines say the following:

The school shall accept the gender identity that each student asserts; and there is no medical or mental health diagnosis or treatment threshold that students must meet in order to have their gender identity recognized and respected. Students ready to socially transition may initiate a process at the school to change their name, pronoun, and access to programs, activities, and facilities consistent with their gender identity.

In addition, the school district added in the document that staff “should involve parents or guardians in the implementation of these guidelines and the process of social transition at school to support the student’s well-being at school, but should first discuss the parental involvement with the student to avoid inadvertently putting the student at risk of harm by contacting the student’s parents,” adding that “students who are transgender and gender-nonconforming have the right to discuss and express their gender identity and expression openly and to decide when, with whom, and how much to share private information.”

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Source:  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/04/29/parents-defending-education-school-district-n2622517

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This bulls*it has got to stop.  Federal education rules should be changed to require all schools that accept even a penny of federal funding to provide full and complete information to all parents upon request, and to impose legal liability on school officials - individual responsibility - for concealing any information.