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California Kindergarteners Will Read About Transgender Kids For โTransgender Day Of Visibilityโ
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Children as young as kindergarten will read a picture book about transgender kids Friday as part of one Northern California school districtโs โTransgender Day of Visibility,โ despite the objections of several parents.
Burton Valley Elementary, about 20 miles east of San Francisco, will have K-5 pupils read a childrenโs book titled โIt Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity.โ The book introduces children to the concept of โgender identityโ with transgender kid characters. It explains the pseudoscientific ideas of โtransgender,โ โcisgender,โ and โnon-binaryโ people.
โThis is Ruthie. Sheโs a transgender girl,โ reads the first line of the book. โThat means when she was born, everyone thought she was a boy. Until she grew a little older โ old enough to tell everyone that sheโs actually a girl.โ
โThis sweet, straightforward exploration of gender identity will give children a fuller understanding of themselves and others,โ the bookโs introduction states.
Parents in the district have expressed concerns that โgender identityโ is an inappropriate topic for elementary school children. On Nextdoor, a neighborhood social media platform, some parents said they plan to pull their children out of Burton Valley Elementary on Friday to avoid the book reading.
The gender identity book reading is part of Lafayette School Districtโs celebration of โInternational Transgender Day of Visibility.โ On March 15, the school board voted for a resolution to honor Transgender Day of Visibility.
โThe Lafayette School District acknowledges March 31, 2023, as Transgender Visibility Day and stands with the transgender community as it fights for freedom, safety, dignity, respect, and, most of all, love,โ the resolution reads.
The resolution also ordered that the transgender flag be flown at each of the districtโs four elementary schools and its one middle school on every school day this week.
โNext week you will notice a new flag on our flag pole, as we fly the Transgender Flag across all of the schools in LafSD,โ Burton Valley Elementary Principal Meredith Dolley posted in her weekly update to parents last week on ParentSquare, a popular school-to-home communication platform.
โWe will also be reading a story as a school called It Feels Good to Be Yourself by Theresa Thorn,โ Dolley added.
โThe conversations that might ensue next week are not new to our school. Each and every conversation we have with our Bobcats is about honoring and celebrating their individual identities; whatever they may be, as we know students learn best when they feel they are seen, valued and appreciated for who they are,โ the principal wrote.
Dolley wrote that Burton Valley Elementary students โwere wanting to discuss gender diversity in our classrooms, and on our playgroundsโ back in November.
The principal said that the school tells its K-5 students who ask about gender identity that โmost boys are born with boy parts and identify as boys,โ and โmost girls are born with girl parts and identify as girls,โ but โthere are also some kids that are born with boy parts and identify as a girlโ and โsome kids that are born with girl parts and identify as a boy.โ The school also tells its elementary students that some kids โsay they are simply โtheyโ โ not a boy or a girl, or both.โ
โWe can be curious and care about our friends, but itโs not our worry which โpartsโ people have, so take that worry off your plate. Itโs also none of your business, just like itโs not othersโ business to ask you which parts you have,โ the school tells kids, according to the principal.
As of last year, the Lafayette School District also has a new Bias Incident Reporting System, which allows families, students, and school staff to report alleged incidents of bias. The school has already received at least 20 reports of bias related to race, LGBT, disability, sexual harassment, discrimination, and hate speech.
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