Westerly (RI) School Committee Unanimously Rejects State Transgender Guidance Excluding Parents From “Social Transitioning”
Parents’ rights activist Robert Chiaradio says Westerly is the first and only district in the state to commit to replacing state guidance with its own locally crafted policy. “With this decision,” he says, “I believe that the dominoes will start to fall across the state.”
On Wednesday, March 20, the Westerly, Rhode Island School Committee voted unanimously to replace the state’s guidance on transgender students with a new policy tailored to the sensibilities of the Westerly community.
The current Westerly protocol the committee voted to replace tracks the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) guidelines that provide for “secret social transitioning.”
We’ve chronicled the controversy over secret social transitioning in public schools here:
- NJ Father Sues State Over Secret Gender Transitioning Policy
- After Male Students Protested To Protect Female Classmates, Pennsylvania High School Nixes Transgender Bathroom Policy
- Groundbreaking Win For Parents: WI State Court Rules Against School’s Secret Gender Transitioning Policy
- Missouri AG Sues School Board Over Secret Transgender Bathroom Policy Meetings
- California Federal Court Says Teachers Don’t Have to Comply With School’s Secret Gender Transitioning Policy
- First Circuit Court of Appeals Hears Oral Argument in School Secret Social Transitioning Case
- California Court Blocks School District’s Gender Notification Policy
- NJ Governor Sues Schools To Halt Parental Notification Of Gender Social Transitioning of Their Kids
- Maryland Parents Can’t Sue School Over Policy On Secret Gender Transitioning, Federal Appeals Court Rules
- Federal Courts Allowing Secret Social Transitioning in Schools, Rebuff Parents’ Rights
Under Westerly’s rules, as elsewhere throughout the country, once a student tells the school they want to become the opposite sex, the school must develop a “gender transition plan.” The school then assigns the student a new name and pronouns, locker, and restroom facilities—all on the student’s say-so.
And, with secondary school students as young as 14, this can happen without the parents’ knowledge or consent:
III. 2. B. Secondary School Students:
If school staff believe that a gender identity issue is presenting itself and creating challenges for a student at school, or if the student or parent(s)/ guardian(s) of a student indicates an intention to transition, the school should make every effort to work with the student. Generally, notification to a student’s parent(s)/guardian(s) about their gender identity, expression, or transition is unnecessary, as they are already aware and supportive. However, some transgender students do not want their parents to know about their transgender status. These situations must be addressed on a case-by-case basis and require schools to balance the goal of supporting the student with the desire that parents be kept informed about their children. In these circumstances, school administration should ask the superintendent for direction on how to proceed. If the administration determines that notifying the family carries risks for the student, it should work closely with the student to assess the degree to which, if any, the family will be involved in the process and must consider the age, health, well-being and safety of the student. [emphasis added].
Supporters say these policies are necessary to keep trans kids “safe” and respect their rights. Westerly resident Ann Pierce testified (on behalf of another resident) that there was no need to abolish the current policy that treats trans students “respectfully” and keeps all students “safe and protected.”
But parents are beginning to realize the “safe and supportive school environments” transgender policies are supposed to create may not be so safe after all. Especially when they allow rough tough boys into the girls’ bathroom. Not long ago, a transgender teen entered the girls’ restroom in a Loudon County, Virginia high school to assault a female student there, in a story that made national news.
Girls also have a right to be “safe.”
That was the point Westerly resident and child advocate Bob Chiaradio led with when he testified in support of scrapping the RIDE guidance:
That assault wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t been for the school’s “safe and inclusive” social transitioning policy. Why not just have trans students use single-occupancy restrooms in each school, Chiaradio suggested.
Dr. Mark Mancini also urged the committee to protect the safety of its students by creating its own policy:
And while there was some discussion about how, exactly, the committee would solicit input from the community, there was no disagreement when the time came to vote. School committee member Lori Wycall’s motion to replace the RIDE guidance passed 7-0.
Wycall was optimistic:
I’m confident that we can do something that’s going to ensure the safety of all students in Westerly, that is going to ensure a safe and supportive learning environment, that will keep the parents involved, that will keep everybody safe and that we can do it without some of the specifics that are in the RIDE guide that I don’t think fit with our community.
Chiaradio says Westerly is the first and only district in the state to commit to replacing RIDE’s guidance with its own locally crafted policy. “With this decision,” he says, “I believe that the dominoes will start to fall across the state.”
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A “gender transition plan”? This country is doomed.
How about a “socialism to capitalism transition plan”?
“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
If CPS can employ due process to remove a child from a home do to irresponsible parents this implies a standard of responsible parents in contrast who are lawfully required to care for their child.
So, why are public schools exempt from this due process standard to abrogated parental rights? Why? Winning a popularity contest to govern is not a justifiable answer for tyranny.
Every single one of the state politicos (elected, appointed, employed) who wrote and distributed this so-called gender transition guidance which provides for the aggressive and egregious deprivation of parental rights for their child in subjection to the state, in direct violation of the 14th amendment (the catch-all), should be in prison. Every. Single. One.
Bring the pain of punishment, or this perversion will never end.
Making so-called “gender affirming care” something that is not covered by health insurance under any circumstances will also go a long way towards ending this nonsense.
If these individuals have to pay out of their own pocket for surgery and lifelong meds, they might just balk long enough to see that “transitioning” really isn’t in their best interests.
1) Move to protect children your children, school districts will abuse them in retaliation.
2) Sue them.
3) Actively organize to kill their millage requests, Calling trees work well, recruit 10 people and ask them to do the same.
“Bring the pain of punishment, or this perversion will never end.”
In the meantime, parents could stop donating their children to the government schools.
There are two main reasons why kids (and by extension, the family) are under attack like this:
1) Money – amongst themselves, the medical “professionals” involved in this butchery freely admit the “gender affirming care” business model is EXTREMELY lucrative for them. They’ve got quite a racket going, so don’t expect them to give up so readily.
2) There are perverts and Marxists (read Lancing & Lindsay’s book) who, for all their talk about “protecting trans kids,” only care about the destruction of ALL that is “normal,” be it the family, society, economic structures, sex roles, etc. They are happy to crack thousands of eggs in pursuit of their Marxist omelet.
Any successful counter to this onslaught against humanity must address these root causes. Anything else is merely a bandaid that treats the symptoms rather than providing a cure, and it is evident that these evil bastards will not stop on their own.
Cat’s out of the bag.. It’s not about what it’s abound; it’s about who is to be master.
There’s a great riff in “Screwtape” on this, noting something like “You talk as if your job is to educate. Your job is to befuddle. If they ever realize the actual issue, we’ve already lost.”
I can’t find the direct quote right now: too many awesome lines coming up around it like chaff.
The Greeks had great wisdom for all the ages.. Socrates: “When bodies become effeminate, souls get much weaker as well.”