Dennis Prager Show - School Encourages Children To Hide Gender Identity From Parents
Aired: 2024-09-10
Duration: 03:54


=== Policy Puzzle (03:35) ===

[00:00:00]  Policy that allows school staff to keep a child's transgender status a secret does not violate a parent's fundamental rights under the New Hampshire Constitution the state's Supreme Court has held.
[00:00:14]  So your daughter says she's a boy, she's nine years old, and wants to be known as Jeremy and use the boys' room.
[00:00:27]  You don't have to tell the parents why parents would send their kids to a public school in New Hampshire.
[00:00:39]  It's a puzzle.
[00:00:40]  Well, it's not a puzzle.
[00:00:42]  It's laziness.
[00:00:46]  It's gambling.
[00:00:47]  You're gambling with your child if you send your child to a public school and many private schools.
[00:00:55]  My animus is not toward public school as such.
[00:01:00]  The policy was challenged by a New Hampshire mother who sued the Manchester School District after finding out from a teacher that her minor child, identified as MC, had asked school staff and students to be called by a name typically associated with the opposite sex.
[00:01:20]  According to the lawsuit, when the mother first asked the school to continue using her child's given name and sex-appropriate pronouns, two teachers wrote to her saying they were willing to comply.
[00:01:33]  But minutes later, the lawsuit says the school principal emailed her, repudiating the teacher's cooperative responses.
[00:01:43]  The school principal.
[00:01:47]  Good morning.
[00:01:49]  While I respect and understand your concern, we are held by the district policy as a staff.
[00:01:56]  I have quoted our district policy below, which outlines the fact that we cannot disclose a student's choice to parents if asked not to.
[00:02:08]  If MC insists on being called...
[00:02:12]  MC's desired name.
[00:02:14]  As a staff, we have to respect that according to the policy or unfortunately we can be held accountable despite parents' wishes.
[00:02:25]  The principal was reiterating district policy that absent the child's consent, School personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a student's transgender status or gender non-conforming presentation to others.
[00:02:45]  Non-conforming presentation.
[00:02:49]  Wow.
[00:02:51]  The language.
[00:02:54]  Ten years ago, if this had been written, people would not have understood it.
[00:02:59]  They would have asked that it be translated into English.
[00:03:03]  The school justified the policy as recognizing transgender students' rights to privacy.
[00:03:11]  The court's response?
[00:03:13]  The principal got the policy wrong.
[00:03:16]  The policy encourages school personnel to not disclose information that may reveal a student's transgender status, but contrary to the principal's assertion to the plaintiff, that's in italics, The policy does not require non-disclosure.

=== Court Reads Double Negatives (00:18) ===

[00:03:36]  In other words, without the double negatives, the court read the policy's directive that, quote, school personnel should not disclose information about trans students to mean they can.
[00:03:50]  It's just that they're allowed not to.