If you fully support trans rights, then you’ll know that policies like this discourage kids from coming out and leads to unsafe schools. If a kid tells their parents, then it doesn’t matter what a school does. If a kid doesn’t, however, that means it’s not safe to do so. And I can guarantee you that a school with this policy will call home as soon as a child tries to use a different name/pronoun. The point of this policy is to out trans kids and discourage trans folks from coming out in the first place.
If a kid doesn’t, however, that means it’s not safe to do so.
But in that case, my worry is that without this policy, the kid might think they’re safe coming out at school and something terrible could happen. I don’t trust the school, teachers and other kids to keep the info secret from their parents.
If you fully support trans rights, then you’ll know that policies like this discourage kids from coming out and leads to unsafe schools. If a kid tells their parents, then it doesn’t matter what a school does. If a kid doesn’t, however, that means it’s not safe to do so. And I can guarantee you that a school with this policy will call home as soon as a child tries to use a different name/pronoun. The point of this policy is to out trans kids and discourage trans folks from coming out in the first place.
But in that case, my worry is that without this policy, the kid might think they’re safe coming out at school and something terrible could happen. I don’t trust the school, teachers and other kids to keep the info secret from their parents.