Ethics

OMG! Our Kids Exposed to Someone Different From Them!

By Ed Brayton

Yet another pointless freakout by parents over gender and sexual orientation, reported in the Worldnutdaily:

A Pennsylvania elementary school has angered parents by giving them one-day's notice of planned couseling sessions with 100 third-grade students to explain that one of their male classmates would soon begin wearing girls' clothing and taking a female name and to ask that they accept him as a girl and not make unkind remarks.

The exercise in "social transition" was initiated by the boy's parents who approached the administration at Chatham Park Elementary School in Haverford Township asking that the school help in having their child's female identity find acceptance among his peers. After consulting experts on transgender children, the Haverford School District sent letters to parents advising them the school guidance counselor would meet with their children, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).