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   From: except_you_faggots@cnn.com   
      
   Many states instruct schools to keep students' 'gender identity'   
   secret   
      
   In the name of student safety, schools across the country don't tell   
   parents when children decide to use a name and pronouns that better   
   align with their "gender identity." But parents say these decisions   
   miss the mark, keeping vital information from them.   
      
   When a school counselor called her to discuss a female student's   
   performance, Jennifer Krecioch assumed the counselor had the wrong   
   number. But she soon found out that the counselor was referring to   
   her son, who had opted to identify as female on a survey his teacher   
   passed out to the class at the start of the school year.   
      
   "I can't protect him. I have no right," Krecioch, whose child   
   attends a public school in a Chicago suburb, told the Washington   
   Free Beacon. "I'm his mother. Shouldn't I be the one to decide when   
   my child is ready to become a she or a different name?"   
      
   Parental rights in education became a hot-button issue during the   
   coronavirus pandemic, when remote learning gave parents a closer   
   look at school curricula. Parents flocked to school board meetings   
   to express their concerns over radical racial and gender ideologies,   
   among other things. Democrats and their allies in teachers' unions   
   largely ignored parental protests, which cost them at the polls in   
   November.   
      
   As opposed to physical transitioning—taking hormone treatments or   
   having surgery to look like the other gender—social transitioning   
   for kids often means adopting a name or nickname and pronouns that   
   better align with a child's "gender identity." While social   
   transitioning is rare, the Free Beacon spoke to two parents who   
   learned their child had begun socially transitioning at school   
   without their knowledge.   
      
   Copying policies from teachers' unions and gay rights organizations,   
   several states instruct schools to withhold information related to a   
   student's sexuality or "gender identity" from parents. In Illinois,   
   a student's "transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming   
   identity" may "not be released or disclosed outside of the district   
   staff without the student's explicit consent," according to guidance   
   enacted in March 2020 at the behest of an executive order from   
   Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker.   
      
   Advocates of these policies warn that "outing" a student to his or   
   her parents could put that student at risk at home. To avoid this,   
   teachers distribute forms to students that ask them to   
   confidentially share their "gender identity."   
      
   The Free Beacon obtained a copy of one such form, which was given to   
   students at Edwardsville High School in Illinois. The form notes   
   that "the teacher(s) of this class will be the only ones who will   
   see your answers" and lets students opt out of having teachers tell   
   their parents what pronouns they use.   
      
   In many cases, this attitude goes beyond the individual student. The   
   California Teachers Association instructs educators how to brand   
   LGBT clubs to misdirect parents, Fox News reported this week.   
   Conference attendees discussed rebranding clubs like "Gay Straight   
   Alliance" as the "Equity Club."   
      
   One parent who spoke to the Free Beacon on condition of anonymity   
   says her child came out as transgender after joining such a club.   
      
   "The schools think they're doing the right thing, but they're not,"   
   the parent, a self-proclaimed liberal feminist, said. "They're   
   hiding this from parents and that is not okay. Can we not wait until   
   they're adults? What is the harm in that?"   
      
   The youngest generation of adult Americans identify as LGBT at   
   higher rates than any preceding generation, a Gallup survey from   
   February found. Nearly 2 percent of Americans under the age of 25   
   identify as transgender, compared with 1.2 percent of Millennials   
   and just 0.2 percent each of Generation X and Baby Boomers.   
      
   "If you look at the statistics and how many kids are coming out as   
   nonbinary or transgender, you have to ask, is that realistic?" the   
   anonymous parent asked. "Do you really think nature is that wrong?"   
      
   Schools' embrace of transgender ideology has pushed some parents to   
   act. In Florida, the parents of one middle-schooler sued their   
   district after officials met with the child to discuss restroom and   
   field trip accommodations without the parents' knowledge. The   
   district violated parents' rights, according to the plaintiffs'   
   suit, by "implementing a protocol which explicitly circumvents   
   parental notification and involvement in critical decisions   
   affecting their children's mental, emotional and physical health," a   
   local news outlet reported.   
      
   Erika Sanzi, director of outreach at Parents Defending Education,   
   has spoken to dozens of parents of kids who started transitioning at   
   school. She attributes the uptick in identifying as transgender to   
   both social pressure and the infiltration of transgender ideology in   
   the classroom. Sanzi says "activists" in schools pressure parents   
      
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