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<\/a><\/p>\nA fight is going on in a Pennsylvania school district now where officials opened their public school boys\u2019 showers to girls. In fact, one student who objected was told he must \u201ctolerate\u201d the presence of a female and make changing clothes with students of the opposite sex as \u201cnatural\u201d as he can.<\/p>\n
In fact, he was\u00a0told he should have taken advantage of \u201creasonable and appropriate alternatives\u201d to the boys\u2019 locker room.<\/a><\/p>\n That is, a boy who objects to a girl in a boys\u2019 shower should go somewhere else.<\/p>\n Now that message has been repeated, emphatically, by the state of Minnesota.<\/p>\n In a state \u201cToolkit for Ensuring Safe and Supportive Schools for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students,\u201d the state orders schools, \u201cPrivacy objections raised by a student in interacting with a transgender or gender nonconforming student may be addressed by segregating the student raising the objection provided the action of the school officials does not result in stigmatizing the transgender or gender nonconforming student.\u201d<\/p>\n No mention of not \u201cstigmatizing\u201d the student raising the objection.<\/p>\n Little doubt that the concept will be challenged in court, John Helmberger, CEO of the Minnesota Family Council, said.<\/p>\n The instructions were adopted by an advisory council for the Minnesota Department of Education, and tells officials running public schools what they must do to cater to those male students who say they are female, or those female students who say they are male.<\/p>\n Reports say Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius did admit that the document might be edited in the future, but it explains, \u201cSchools should work with transgender and gender nonconforming students to ensure that they are able to access needed facilities in a manner that is safe, consistent with their gender identity and does not stigmatize them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt sounds like the Minnesota school board system has taken on the challenge to become more radical than the kooks in San Francisco with this latest decision,\u201d wrote commentator\u00a0Wayne Dupree.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cMinnesota is mandating their public schools to follow their new K-12 school guidelines to \u2018segregate\u2019 students who object to transgender locker rooms and bathrooms. This is their version of forcing the majority to accept the minority and their sexual lifestyles,\u201d he said. \u201cThey won\u2019t do anything to protect normal kids from being bullied, but for trans kids, they go to extremes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDid you realize private, faith based, schools and homeschool are gaining popularity, and these folks wonder why?\u201d<\/p>\n The guidelines point out that 31 percent of transgender and gender nonconforming students have attempted suicide. Actually, across the nation, multiple studies have shown that about 40 percent of transgenders have attempted suicide.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile students often feel excited, happy and relieved to have their gender affirmed at school, transition might also be a time of great stress for them, their family and guardians,\u201d the guidelines state.<\/p>\n School officials are warned to call the student by whatever name and gender pronoun the student chooses, and let them participate in athletics and other activities under the gender they say they are.<\/p>\n One problem could be homecoming kings and queens.<\/p>\n \u201cSchools may wish to consider revisiting existing traditions or establishing new traditions. For example, instead of electing a homecoming king and homecoming queen, some schools have chosen to nominate \u2018prom ambassadors\u2019\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Let them dress how they want, use the restroom they want, the showers they choose and even room on school trips with others who \u201cmatch the student\u2019s gender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n That could mean assigning a boy and three girls, or a girl and three boys, to a motel room.<\/p>\n The fight that\u2019s already begun,<\/a>\u00a0in Pennsylvania, is being fought by the Alliance Defending Freedom.<\/p>\n