Over the past decade, some school districts in New Hampshire have instituted policies that require teachers to use preferred pronouns while students keep their children's self-identified gender secret from their parents, in contrast to their biological sex. Ta.
Milford School District and Fall Mountain Area School District each have policies allowing students who have changed their gender to hide it from their parents, Parents Defending Education (PDE) obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. This document was exclusively revealed to this newspaper. Caller News Foundation. Contoocook District, Kearsarge Regional District, Somersworth District, and Oyster River Cooperative Union allow students to determine their own “gender identity” and allow transgender individuals to identify their gender. They are allowed to choose toilets and locker rooms based on their location.
“There is no justification for schools to intentionally deceive parents,” Erika Sange, PDE's director of outreach, told DCNF. “These policies are highly unethical and likely illegal.”
The Fall Mountain School District's “transgender student” policy requires school staff not to disclose a student's “transgender status” or disclose to parents or other administrators that a student is of the opposite sex. I am. According to On the document. This policy indicates that school staff are permitted to communicate with parents and other staff members about a student's gender identity only if there is a legal obligation or the student has given permission to do so. are.
The Milford School District's “Administrative Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students” policy allows staff to keep parents from knowing their child's transgender status or “gender identity.” According to To PDE. This policy asserts that parents should only receive this information if the student has given permission or if there is a legal obligation.
Kearsarge University's “Student Preferred Name and Pronouns” policy states that failure to use a student's preferred pronouns may be considered sexual harassment. According to To PDE. A second policy implemented by Kearsarge, known as “Student Physical Privacy,” allows students to use restrooms and locker rooms according to their self-proclaimed “gender identity.”
Contoocook Valley School District's Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Procedure allows students to share their gender transition needs with staff. state. Under the same policy, students and faculty are required to use their preferred pronouns, and students can choose bathrooms and locker rooms based on their self-identified gender.
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In the Somersworth School District, students and parents must authorize the disclosure of gender information in accordance with PDE's Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Student Support Procedures. Found. Another Somersworth policy, “Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students,” allows students who identify as transgender to have the student or parent contact the school counselor and have the school discuss confidentiality and other factors. It stipulates that it is necessary to make a plan.
“A student's individual decision about gender is a decision between him and his family,” Somersworth School District Superintendent John Shea told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
A similar “transgender and gender nonconforming student” policy at Somersworth allows transgender students to use the restrooms and locker rooms of their choice, PDE said. (Related: Supreme Court refuses to hear lawsuit challenging school district's policy of hiding students' gender identity from parents)
The Oyster River Cooperative School District's Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Procedures policy states that the district will not disclose personal gender information to other faculty or staff if a student wishes to maintain privacy. noticed.
As part of a similar policy at Oyster River, students and faculty are required to use pronouns preferred by other students, PDE said. Students will also have the opportunity to use restrooms and locker rooms based on their “gender identity.”
Kearsarge Regional School District, Conto Cook Valley School District, Fall Mountain Regional School District, Milford School District and Oyster River Cooperative School District did not immediately respond to DCNF's requests for comment.
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