21-Feb-2022, 02:16 AM
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My daughter who is only 10 was caught up in the transgender craze after her father had bought her an IPhone. She started 5th grade at a new elementary school and had cut her own hair with scissors in the bathroom. She started wearing beanies and only masculine clothing. I found out about 3 weeks into the school year that she had changed her name. When I had to pick her up at school because of having been a close contact to a child who tested positive for COVID, a staff member called her by this new fictitious masculin name. I was completely shocked as I have never heard anyone call her that before but it made me finally realize what was really going on. She was trying to be a boy. I never could have imagined this because until only recently she had always been a typical girl. I made an appointment with her teacher and I asked if she was using feminine pronouns at school and she said yes. I told the that I was against having my daughter being called a fake name at school and that we were considering taking her out. We made an agreement that the teacher would help tell the class that she had tried out a new name for a while and now she was going back to her real name. This did happen. However I did find out that the district policy is to change a child’s name and/or pronouns upon a child’s request and the parents will not be notified unless the child gives permission. This applies to kids as young as 5 years old. We are keeping our daughter in this school until the end of the year but are seriously considering a private middle school in the fall.
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Hello, guest.
I'm sorry to hear about the school going behind your back to affirm your daughter's opposite-sex identity. This is happening more and more as schools adopt this approach as their official protocol which teachers must follow. If you do change schools, I recommend researching any new school's policy in advance, because you may find the new school is just the same as the one you are leaving.
I hope you will join the board as a registered member. You'll find support here from like-minded parents. If you join then you can post in the board's members-only area where you will likely get a better response to your posts, because board members don't frequent this public area of the board too often.
To join, click on the word "join" in the black bar at the top of the page, and follow the prompts. Once you've created your account, you'll have to wait until a moderator manually activates your account before you have access to the members-only area.
Best wishes.
My daughter who is only 10 was caught up in the transgender craze after her father had bought her an IPhone. She started 5th grade at a new elementary school and had cut her own hair with scissors in the bathroom. She started wearing beanies and only masculine clothing. I found out about 3 weeks into the school year that she had changed her name. When I had to pick her up at school because of having been a close contact to a child who tested positive for COVID, a staff member called her by this new fictitious masculin name. I was completely shocked as I have never heard anyone call her that before but it made me finally realize what was really going on. She was trying to be a boy. I never could have imagined this because until only recently she had always been a typical girl. I made an appointment with her teacher and I asked if she was using feminine pronouns at school and she said yes. I told the that I was against having my daughter being called a fake name at school and that we were considering taking her out. We made an agreement that the teacher would help tell the class that she had tried out a new name for a while and now she was going back to her real name. This did happen. However I did find out that the district policy is to change a child’s name and/or pronouns upon a child’s request and the parents will not be notified unless the child gives permission. This applies to kids as young as 5 years old. We are keeping our daughter in this school until the end of the year but are seriously considering a private middle school in the fall.
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Hello, guest.
I'm sorry to hear about the school going behind your back to affirm your daughter's opposite-sex identity. This is happening more and more as schools adopt this approach as their official protocol which teachers must follow. If you do change schools, I recommend researching any new school's policy in advance, because you may find the new school is just the same as the one you are leaving.
I hope you will join the board as a registered member. You'll find support here from like-minded parents. If you join then you can post in the board's members-only area where you will likely get a better response to your posts, because board members don't frequent this public area of the board too often.
To join, click on the word "join" in the black bar at the top of the page, and follow the prompts. Once you've created your account, you'll have to wait until a moderator manually activates your account before you have access to the members-only area.
Best wishes.
