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A parent activist organization blasted officials in the rural Wyoming school district of Sweetwater County after the school board defended its policy of hiding student gender transitions from parents and claimed that misgendering someone is sexual harassment.
At a school board meeting last month for Sweetwater County School District No. 1, officials claimed it is “well settled” that misgendering a student or school employee constitutes sexual harassment.
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The district’s officials also openly argued with several community speakers over the district’s policy of not informing a student’s parent if the student informs school officials that they are transgender and seeks to be addressed by a name or pronoun that does not correspond to their biological sex.
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Mailyn Salabarria, the director of community engagement for the parent activist group Parents Defending Education, said the statements from officials in the rural, southwest Wyoming school district showed “the war against our constitutional rights and our parental rights is out in the open, even in wild Wyoming.”
“This notion that keeping information from parents is for the sake of the students’ safety is laughable,” Salabarria said. “Educators and school administrators are mandatory reporters when it comes to abuse and neglect. Wyoming already has legislation in place to safeguard minors in those circumstances. If safety is the concern, why aren’t they using the process already in place?”
The school district, located in southwestern Wyoming, counts 20 schools in its jurisdiction and a student population of 5,141, according to US News.
The district’s attorney of record claimed that both policies drawing controversy are in line with and required by Title IX, the federal civil rights law for educational settings.
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“The district’s policy has always been to adhere to the law,” the school district’s attorney Kari Moneyhun said at the meeting. “Title IX is a federal law, a civil rights law.”
