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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOregon lays out sweeping protections for transgender students
http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2016/05/oregon_lays_out_sweeping_prote.htmlTransgender students across Oregon should be able to use the bathrooms, names and pronouns they want, according to unprecedented guidelines released Thursday by the Oregon Department of Education.
In a sweeping 15-page document the department issued what are likely to be controversial suggestions for Oregon educators directing them to allow transgender females to play girls sports, for example, and transgender boys to wear tuxedos to prom.
They also suggest school leaders use transgender students' preferred names, even if that differs from a legal name, on all transcripts and diplomas. And they say the state will require no proof before changing a student's gender in Oregon records.
"A student who says she is a girl and wishes to be regarded that way throughout the school day should be respected and treated like any other girl," the document reads. "So too with a student who says he is a boy."
In a sweeping 15-page document the department issued what are likely to be controversial suggestions for Oregon educators directing them to allow transgender females to play girls sports, for example, and transgender boys to wear tuxedos to prom.
They also suggest school leaders use transgender students' preferred names, even if that differs from a legal name, on all transcripts and diplomas. And they say the state will require no proof before changing a student's gender in Oregon records.
"A student who says she is a girl and wishes to be regarded that way throughout the school day should be respected and treated like any other girl," the document reads. "So too with a student who says he is a boy."
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Oregon lays out sweeping protections for transgender students (Original Post)
KamaAina
May 2016
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HuckleB
(35,773 posts)1. This is good. It should be modeled elsewhere.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. It has been.
Oregon joins a handful of states that have issued similarly explicit recommendations, issuing its guidelines amid an increasingly heated conversation over transgender identity and discrimination. On Wednesday, the federal Justice Department warned North Carolina that it cannot bar transgender people from using the bathrooms that match their gender identities.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)3. Perhaps I should have said everywhere.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)4. Knew it was just a matter of time before that law was shot down
Someone is going to make a lot of cash taking that law to court.
Initech
(100,087 posts)5. Fuck the fundies. This is how it should be done.