{"id":36794,"date":"2019-08-12T16:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36794"},"modified":"2019-08-12T16:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:42:36","slug":"usurping-parental-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36794","title":{"rendered":"Usurping Parental Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo News<\/a> posted a USA Today article about a 14-year-old school child who decided that she was a boy. The story is heartbreaking because the parents tried to provide the help the child needed, and the school undermined them every step of the way.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

In April 2016, my then 14-year-old daughter became convinced that she was my son. In my attempt to help her, her public school undermined me every step of the way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Throughout my daughter\u2019s childhood, there were no signs that she wanted to be a boy. She loved stuffed animals, Pocahontas and wearing colorful bathing suits. I can\u2019t recall a single interest that seemed unusually masculine, or any evidence that she was uncomfortable as a girl.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only difficulty she had was forming and maintaining friendships. We later learned why: She was on the autism spectrum. She was very functional and did well in school, helped by her Individualized Education Program (IEP), a common practice for public school students who need special education.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At her high school, my daughter was approached by a girl who had recently come out at school as transgender. Shortly after meeting her, my daughter declared that she, too, was a boy trapped in a girl\u2019s body and picked out a new masculine name.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The school began treating the girl as a boy and addressing her with masculine pronouns. The parents were unaware of this. When they found out about it, they requested that those in the school call her by her legal name at all times. Their request was ignored–the school continued to address her by a masculine name and masculine pronouns.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

We met with the school district\u2019s assistant superintendent, who told us the\u00a0hands of school personnel are tied and that they had to follow the law. But there was no law, only the Obama administration\u2019s \u201cDear Colleagues\u201d letter of May 2016<\/a>\u00a0that said schools need to officially affirm transgender students. Just three months later, in August 2016, a federal judge in Texas blocked the guidelines<\/a> from being enforced. And in February 2017, the Trump administration rescinded the Obama-era guidelines<\/a>, leaving it to the states to set their own policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I also learned that the ACLU has sent threatening letters to schools<\/a> stating that it is against the law to disclose a student\u2019s gender identity, even to their parents. But this letter appears to misunderstand\u00a0federal law. The federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act <\/a>requires that schools allow parents to \u201cinspect and review\u201d their child\u2019s education records as long as the child is under 18.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article then reveals the peer pressure in the world of psychology:<\/p>\n

We had our daughter evaluated by a psychologist approved by the school district. He told us that it was very clear that our daughter\u2019s sudden transgender identity was driven by her underlying mental health conditions, but would only share his thoughts off the record because he feared the potential backlash he would receive. In the report he submitted to us and the school, he did not include these concerns that he would only share in person.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link to the article to read the rest of the story. I need someone to explain to me how this sort of behavior by schools is in any way helpful to our children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yahoo News posted a USA Today article about a 14-year-old school child who decided that she was a boy. The story is heartbreaking because the parents tried to provide the help the child needed, and the school undermined them every … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[770,763,7921,1891,904,4824,135,10728,1890,11002,3832],"class_list":["post-36794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aclu","tag-education","tag-federal-law","tag-gender-identity","tag-law","tag-mental-health","tag-obama-administration","tag-students","tag-transgender","tag-trump-administration","tag-usa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36795,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36794\/revisions\/36795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}