As school board trustees we will

advocate for the following:

• We will push to establish educational programs within our public schools to:
• Increase student and staff awareness of the catastrophic physical and mental side effects of gender affirming medical care.
• Increase student and staff awareness of "gender critical" viewpoints.
• We will acknowledge that if school boards and teachers, along with influencers on social media did not introduce and legitimize the idea that one's gender could be distinct from one's biological sex it would only very rarely (if ever) occur to a child. (Indeed, before the current spike in cases, severe gender dysphoria affected about 1 in 10000 people - mostly boys.) There are now staggering increases in children engaging in trans self-identification and personal stories from detransitioners now entering the public discourse. These stories point to the devastating impact of gender ideology and gender affirming medical “care”. We maintain that these teachings are harming rather than helping children.
• This debate is rooted in a fundamental disagreement around the ideological narrative of a “transgender child”. Children may naturally claim all manner of identities while growing up but do not in our view, have the life experience, brain development, or maturity to claim any manner of gender identity at odds with their biological sex which should be taken seriously by adults. They are highly susceptible to social fads, social contagion, and transgender activist influencers on social media who actively promote transitions as a panacea to all their problems.
• We will acknowledge that the new cohort of gender dysphoric youth is predominately post-pubertal onset females with pre-existent psychological co-morbidities like ASD, ADHD, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, trauma, etc - as well as discomfort with emerging bi/homosexuality. Children in the foster care system are over-represented. Social contagion is playing a major role in the dramatic increase seen in recent years of young adolescent females suddenly identifying as boys and vice-versa.
• Gender dysphoria can be a distressing condition. Whether we are talking about the gender dysphoria seen historically (mostly affecting very young boys) or the gender dysphoria seen today (mostly young teenage girls), these individuals need compassion. They do not need medicalization, drugs, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible surgeries based on highly flawed data that does not show benefit. Studies have shown that most gender dysphoric kids naturally desist by adulthood if left to develop naturally.
  
• We will seek to raise awareness that the school to gender affirmative medical care pipeline starts with:
• "Gender ideology" indoctrination in schools that legitimizes the concept of “gender identity” and allows gender identity to supersede and obscure the reality of biological sex.
• Policies forcing immediate affirmation by staff and teachers and hiding student trans self-identification from parents.
• Medical "gender affirming care".
• Sterilization and other side effects listed below.
• All of this is done in the name of "inclusion". School boards are morally and potentially legally responsible with respect to negligence in their duty of fiduciary care to students if their policies lead children down these paths.  This becomes an even greater concern if done without obtaining parental consent.
• The legal liability increases for school boards which refuse to err on the side of caution ignoring increasing warnings and policy changes from overseas. Many European countries are now backing away from medical gender affirming care for minors due to increasing evidence of harm. The UK, France, Finland, Norway, and Sweden are representative examples.

The truth about "Gender Affirming" medical care.