Teacher’s job is to teach, not to tattle
I think it’s too bad that the state has even had to get involved here, as there are too many real issues to have to waste time on a ginned-up one. But I happen to completely agree with the attorney general that California law gives students privacy rights on issues of gender, even the right to keep it from their parents if they have worries — which some certainly do — about the violent reaction with which this news might be met.
But, fearful folks, I also get it. This is so new to us. All of us. I have close friends whose teens, one of whom I had known since birth, came out as trans, initially to everyone’s consternation. Another close friend, who happens to be gay, a therapist and a parent, is flummoxed by quick moves toward hormones and surgery. “Why not just be queer, like me?” she laments.
The answer is that, like it or not, every generation is a consternation to the previous one. Let today’s non-binary kids talk to their parents when they’re ready to, not when some school board rule says that they must.
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