March 18, 2025
Transgender BOE Policy 5756: Unfair, Unbalanced, and Unacceptable
I’d like to share some thoughts on this Board’s Policy 5756, labeled Transgender Students.
First, let me be clear: transgender students, like all students, deserve safety, support, and respect. No child should face harassment or exclusion.
However, this Policy is fundamentally flawed and must be revoked. It is, ironically, discriminatory—placing the rights of transgender students above those of cisgender girls.
The policy states that Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sex. Yet, it disregards this principle by forcing female students to share bathrooms and locker rooms with biological males who identify as female. The discomfort and concerns of cisgender girls are dismissed, and their rights overshadowed. This is discrimination.
Likewise, in sports, biological differences matter. Women have fought for centuries for fair competition, and allowing biological males to compete in female sports undermines this hard-won progress. Male-born athletes often retain physical advantages, making fair competition impossible. Transgender athletes deserve opportunities to compete—but not at the expense of fairness and safety for cisgender women. Equal rights cannot mean erasing protections for one group to accommodate another.
The Policy also unjustly excludes parents from their child’s gender-related decisions at school. Yes, some families may struggle to accept, but most parents in our community would offer the love, guidance, and support their child needs. Cutting parents out does more harm than good. At a time when kids need care the most, this Policy weakens the most vital foundation they have—their family.
This is not about opposing transgender students. On the contrary, they deserve dignity, safety, and inclusion—just like all students. But policies must be balanced, fair, and protective of everyone’s rights.
Policy 5756, while perhaps was well-intentioned, is deeply flawed. It unfairly disadvantages cisgender girls, disrupts fair play in sports, and wrongfully excludes parents. It is time for the Board to revoke it.
