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Should Public Schools be Allowed to Deceive Parents? – by Abigail Shrier – The Truth Fairy

Never encourage a child to keep a secret from her parents. That s what we used to say, in decades past, when we believed a sacred boundary encircled every American home.

Last week, I spoke with another mother who discovered her 12-year-old daughter s middle school had changed the girl s name and gender identity at school. The Gender Support Plan the district followed is an increasingly standard document which informs teachers of a child s new chosen name and gender identity ( trans, agender, non-binary, etc.) for all internal communications with the child. The school also provided the girl a year s worth of counseling in support of her new identity, which in her case was no gender. Even the P.E. teachers were in on it. Left in the dark were her parents.

This duplicity is part of the plan : All documents sent home to mom and dad scrupulously maintained the daughter s birth name and sex. But Mom noticed her daughter seemed to be suffering. Although far from alone in declaring a new identity – many girls in the school had adopted new names and gender pronouns this girl s grades fell apart. She became taciturn and moody.

When the mother failed to uncover the source of the girl s distress, she met with teachers, hoping for insight. Instead, she slammed into a Wall of Silence: no teacher was evidently willing to let a worried mom know what the hell was going on. (Finally, one did.)

via abigailshrier.substack.com

This is wrong and Mom should sue them.