A new policy bans students, teachers and staff at a Texas school district from discussing transgender issues, or even acknowledging that transgender people exist at their school.
] group Patriot Mobile Action, which has spent millions of dollars electing conservative majorities to Texas school boards.” Although many in attendance during the Monday school board meeting donned shirts with that organization’s name, most spoke out against the district adopting the new set of harmful and bigoted policies.
“By implementing these policies you are preventing our kids, the kids who were trusted into your care, from getting the help and support that they need,”during the public comment period. “You will alienate them even more from getting help. … Help my friends. Don’t tell them they should be erased.” An alumnus from the school who said he graduated from GCISD with the school board president also spoke out against the policy, recounting how, when they were teens, one of their peers was beaten up and afraid to attend school for a full year after being outed as gay.. “Not to indoctrinate, not to make them gay or trans, but to teach them empathy, to show them that they are human beings who deserve care and love. … Kids deserve better than to be otherized and demonized.
An alumnus from GCISD who went to school with the board president relates a story of a gay student who was outed and then beaten up in a bathroom, making them afraid to come to school for a year.
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