Students’ gender at birth will now determine the restroom and pronoun use at Texas’ Keller Independent School District after its board banned LGBTQ accommodations.
Students’ gender at birth will now determine restroom and pronoun use at a Texas school district, where LGBTQ accommodations have been banned.
Conservative board members at the Keller Independent School District voted that students in the Dallas suburb must use the restroom or locker room that “corresponds to their gender assigned at birth,”“This policy allows students, teachers and staff the freedom to use pronouns as they deem appropriate,” one supporter of the new policy“It also allows students, teachers and staff the freedom not to participate in preferred pronoun usage. I call that a win-win.
Birth gender will also determine if a student is called a “he” or “she” at Keller schools — ending the use ofThe Keller Independent School District school board voted to require students to use the bathroom and pronouns that match their gender assigned at birth.According to the ACLU, the Texas school district’s policy “seeks to erase transgender and non-binary identity.”
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