A Wisconsin school district has issued a notice to staff instructing them to not notify parents if a student comes out as transgender.
“Staff members are no longer required to seek parental consent prior to honoring student requests to be called by their preferred name and/or pronouns,” read a memo sent out on October 19th from the Oshkosh Area School District.
The Daily Caller reported, Parents were informed of the new policy in an Oct. 22 email, in which Kaemmerer wrote that the new policy was put in place to “acknowledge and support each student’s unique needs” after acknowledging “varying perspectives related to gender identity.”
Several parents expressed concern over the districts new and destructive school policy.
Change in gender identity is something parents should be notified of, regardless of how the parent feels about it.
Even if a parent is not disapproving of the change, the lack of knowledge very well could create a rift in the relationship between parent and child.
The unknowing of the issue could result in attention the child needs not being met by the parent who was kept in the dark by a conniving school district.
“So, if my son starts identifying as a girl at school but hides it from me, I will never know about it,” a parent told the Federalist.
“Deliberately concealing this information from parents, when those same parents would be consulted over the administration of Tylenol or permission to go on a field trip, is beyond outrageous,” Meg Killgannon said to the Daily Caller.
Killgannon raises an interesting point. In order for the smallest dose of harmless pain relief medicine to be administered by a school nurse while a student has a headache requires parental consultation and permission. Why should gender status not be held to the same standard?
What conveniences may this have on the child’s life?