2/ At issue: The district codifies in its policies to affirm a child's decision--**at any age**--to socially transition. Most importantly, the district's policy instructs school staff to deceive parents who the *child* claims are "unsupportive," going so far as to...
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3/ Tell teachers to use "preferred" name & pronouns with child at school, while using legal name/pronouns with parent. The lawsuit discusses at length the controversy around social transition, citing experts who correctly state there is no clinical consensus around the practice.
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4/ "The [school] Policy repeatedly emphasizes the Madison School District is committed to 'affirm[ing]”' each student’s self-perceived gender identity, effectively choosing a side in the debate among healthcare professionals described above."
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5/ "Madison schools 'will strive to... disrupt[ ] the gender binary' and will pursue this 'disruption' through 'books & lessons' 'limit[ing] gendered and binary language' and interrupting and correcting 'misconceptions about gender or language that reinforces the gender binary.”
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6/ Let's be clear: This is a US school district instructing teaching staff to "disrupt the gender binary" in any way possible, and to deceive parents if the student [of any age] asks them to. Is this an appropriate policy for a public school?
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7/ There are already policies in place for teachers & school administrators to deal with actual parental abuse/neglect. But US orgs like Gender Spectrum & the ACLU have successfully pressured US schools to interpret parental caution around gender transition as "abusive."
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8/ As the brief amply shows, there is no clinical consensus that an "affirm-only" approach to gender dysphoria--which always includes social transition--is best. US schools should not be allowed to override clinical debate in policies that deliberately cut out parent involvement.
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9/ Again, please read the lawsuit. As always, we find it incredibly unfortunate that only the ADF, a law firm with a track record of fighting vs gay and abortion rights is willing to take these cases.
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10/ Shame on "feminist" attorneys for ceding this battle (and the fight to protect women's sports) to social conservatives. …https://3f4f512f-ed15-43d4-b6cb-feddbf307a97.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f4f51_05fe871d94b740c19057e082dffa2785.pdf …
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