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I'k going to write a bit about the recent movement by our schoolhouse district to reject our land's mandate on policies regarding its transgender students. I know this tin can be a hot spot for some and I know that my thoughts exercise not always lucifer up with the rest of the world, Only, we've gotten through this before. "This" being where I write something that doesn't match upward with the rest of the globe and so we talk nicely to each other. Equally I've said in previous blogs on the topic: my opinions are formed in directly relation to my personal feel. They are related to the happenings within my home. My opinions have been formed via years of riding an emotional roller coaster. I am always happy to chat and I admittedly practice not consider my opinion to be gospel. Lawd knows, my husband and I question ourselves on the daily as to whether we are adulting correctly.

The policy in question set by the Virginia Department of Educational activity said schools must allow the apply of proper name and gender pronouns students identify with, and allows students to utilize restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity. The guidelines besides say schools should allow students participate in gender-specific programs or activities — such as concrete education, overnight field trips and intramural sports — that correspond with their gender identities. Last calendar week, the only holdout commune in our state opted once more to decline this mandate. This is e'er the district in which my children passed/are passing through.

I was asked by a few folks how I felt when our district rejected the in a higher place mandate. I know that some were hoping that I would blast the county for existence phobic, simply that wasn't what I felt at all. What I felt starting time was relief. Relief. And and so I felt like I should definitely not tell anyone that what I felt first was relief. I knew I would not be popular in admitting this feeling. However, I suspected that most of those who would lash out at me would not have lived through the confusion of having a child all of a sudden request unlike pronouns, a unlike proper noun, and to forget the person they were the previous day. We have lived through it. We are still living through it. Years ago, when my child starting time adopted a new version of themself, we were chastised past the schoolhouse for not standing upwardly immediately to wave a Pride flag.

My sense of relief came considering I felt, finally, that our school district was putting on some much needed brakes. The relief came considering the rejection would potentially requite parents time to go more involved and knowledgeable almost what their child is going through. We did not have that luxury. The truth is, in our business firm, we volition probable never know whether our child is actually transgender because we were never given a choice or a run a risk or a infinitesimal to assimilate what we were hearing. We wanted to investigate and collect research and offer our child everything we could in figuring out why they felt and so uncomfortable in their own skin that their young teen answer was a blanket statement of I am non who I am supposed to be.

But nosotros couldn't. Our only choice, as laid out by the unkind words from our child'due south teachers and administration, was to either assert everything we were hearing or to sit the hell down and, substantially, allow the schoolhouse (and the internet) take over parenting. No-i wanted to hear our concerns. No-1 respected our wish to work through this as a family and from inside our own walls. No-ane cared what nosotros, who had known this child longer than whatever, thought might be going on in their head. Our child had been through the wringer in the years prior to that first announcement of dysphoria. The idea that there wouldn't be some sort of mental fallout never crossed our minds. We thought nosotros were prepared for nigh anything that bubbled up from those years of trauma, but the wrench of transgender was the one thing we were not expecting. Hell, we'd never even heard of it. We were, therefore, behind the eight ball before nosotros even started.

The schoolhouse yelled "AFFIRM!" at the top of its lungs. Nosotros felt that our child was treated a bit like a novelty and gave the school a hazard to showcase its ability to accept. It was similar we'd presented the school with a brand new certification to hoist up as a benchmark to show just how woke it was. There were no letters home to ask about a name change. There were no phone calls request about bathroom preferences. In that location were no requests for conferences to discuss how our child was being treated by the other students (we found out later, it was poorly). There was only silence.

By and large.

We did get a call from the high school principal one year into this journeying asking that nosotros discourage our child from serving on the homecoming court and riding in the accompanying parade. Obviously, the schoolhouse had open arms as long as information technology didn't involve annihilation icky similar potential protests and news crews. We were, by so, trying really difficult to go with the menses so nosotros were a flake surprised to receive that call. Nosotros were stunned to hear the vocalization of the school'due south leader mention that it "just wasn't a good look for the school." Had we not even so felt like we were simply barely keeping our heads in a higher place the water, nosotros'd have put up a much better fight. Instead, we followed the school's guidance (once again) only to take serious regrets later (again).

We went dorsum to sticking to what our hearts were telling us. Information technology had nix to do with a lack of love for our child and everything to exercise with providing that child every opportunity and resource we could to discover happiness within their own skin. Over the course of my child'due south high school tenure, I had teachers bulletin me to tell me that they were ashamed of me. I was embarrassed. I tried to explain. I'd ask what they would do if their child came home on a random Tuesday and insisted that they were now left-handed. No big deal, correct? Merely what would they practice if their child then insisted that they be allowed to have their correct paw amputated considering they felt so incredibly uncomfortable having it attached to their body now that they had realized they were left handed? The things we were being asked to approve had permanent consequences, both physically and mentally. We were less concerned with the twenty-four hour period to twenty-four hour period-ness of information technology all and more than concerned with the fallout down the road. Still, we were isolated as other parents looked away. Each yr a new batch of teachers attempted to exist a breakthrough for us in finally accepting our child. Each year with nix cognition nigh our home life and the work nosotros were doing as a family. Each year without asking u.s., the parents, how we were handling all of this.

The mandate? Yes, we are relieved. We feel like someone has finally immune a deadening downwardly on a gender identity uptick that is and so sudden and desperate that it is (yep, I'll say it) not likely possible. Information technology has nix to do with whether or not I think that transgender is real or unreal (I call back information technology is). It has everything to do with the chance for our family to notice together where our child sits on that gender spectrum existence taken away from us. Parents need to be allowed to parent. Nosotros would accept loved to accept been able to learn and discover and piece of work through this process together, every bit a family. Instead our educators were affirming our child with a side dish of we sympathize you...and we're so sorry your family does not.

My hope is that, by putting on the brakes, no other family will exist pushed into submission by the canton or the state or the country or the authorities. My hope is that parents and children will be encouraged to have open conversations and work together to build stronger relationships, rather than allowing mandates to pull them apart.

My least favorite buzz phrase from the final one-half decade is if your child believes it, then it is true. It reeks of cocky-diagnosis and of handing the prescription pad to tiny humans with brains that should have a "still a piece of work in progress" warning label.

We try not to spend too much time wondering how things could have been unlike if we'd just been given infinite and support past our child'south schoolhouse. Perhaps the giant cavern between our child and us would never accept formed. Possibly we wouldn't still sit in a web of stress that was born from that one proclamation five years agone. Possibly nosotros wouldn't exist dealing with that mental fallout to this very day.

I am not phobic.

I am a parent.

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