[Nathans_Dad]

I don't have an issue with extra bathrooms for LGBT kids. I do have an issue with kids of an opposite gender being able to use the bathroom with my daughter or son based on what they feel their current gender expression is.

One of the students at the meeting used a term I had never heard before, "non-binary gender". From Wikipedia:

Genderqueer (GQ; alternatively non-binary) is a catch-all category for gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine—identities which are thus outside of the gender binary and cisnormativity.[1] Genderqueer people may identify as one or more of the following:

having an overlap of, or indefinite lines between, gender identity;[2]
having two or more genders (being bigender, trigender, or pangender);
having no gender (being agender, nongendered, genderless, genderfree or neutrois);
moving between genders or having a fluctuating gender identity (genderfluid);[3] or
being third-gender or other-gendered, a category which includes those who do not place a name to their gender.[4]

So, if a student is allowed to use whatever bathroom they would like based on what their current gender expression is, what is to keep a young 16 year old boy from claiming he is "non-binary" and deciding he is a female that day? Are we to allow this young man to enter the girls restroom on that day without consequence? When he switches back to male the next day, are his actions while he was female the previous day excused?

Also, how does it protect the transgendered boy from harrassment by the testosterone filled boys in the restroom when they walk in? Seems to me it would be inviting harrassment to put someone in that situation.

As far as transgendered teachers go, I think there is a time and an age at which it is appropriate to introduce kids into the very confusing and changing world of gender in our society. I do not think elementary school age is necessarily the right time for that (especially the younger elementary school ages) and I would like to be able to parent my child as I see fit rather than have the school shove something down their throat that I do not think they are mentally ready to process.

I wish the school would provide education for my child and leave the parenting up to me.

These are some of my concerns.