Gender dysphoria and the movement toward gender identity transition has hit families and children with a formidable force. For years the biggest fallout from the growing transgender movement has been the debate over the use of private spaces, especially bathrooms and locker rooms, protection of which the Family Policy Alliance has been at the forefront. Their work demonstrates that while that debate will continue, the demands are getting much broader. They look at recent events which reveal a stunning array of concerns related to the family:
1. Assault: A kindergarten girl was recently assaulted in the girls' bathroom after a Georgia school allowed elementary school boys, who claim to have a transgender identity, into girls' bathrooms.
2. Adult Entertainment in Educational Institutions: Libraries and schools across the country have drag queens, otherwise considered adult entertainment, to conduct children's story times.
3. Keeping Information Secret from Parents: The New Jersey Department of Education recently directed schools to keep vital information about a child's gender identity secret from parents. When a parent has a disagreement with his or her child's gender identity choice, school staff are urged to review information on reporting child abuse by that parent against his or her child.
4. Forced Intimate Services: A transgender-identifying man is suing a women's spa in Massachusetts for declining to give him a wax of his private body areas, using a court to force a female employee to provide intimate services to a man.
5. Erasing Criminal Records: A man has sued to get a court to erase his criminal record. Now living life as a woman, he argues that his criminal conviction as a man discloses his gender identity change and is therefore unfair and discriminatory.
6. Saving Money on Insurance: A man has admitted to lying by claiming to be a transgender female so that he could save money on car insurance.
The current federal government, however, has begun to pay attention to these concerns in three important areas:
Prisons: The Federal Bureau of Prisons now averts placement of transgender inmates with the opposite biological sex to protect women from exposure to degradation, harassment, and assault.
Military: After intense study the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security have determined that admitting transgender-identifying individuals into the military was fundamentally unfair, cost prohibitive, and ultimately compromised the mission of the armed forces.
Schools: The current Department of Health and Human Services is working to make the law clear that sex is an unchangeable scientific fact.
These events reveal that a formidable movement toward national gender identity change is placing a great deal of pressure on children, parents, individuals and particularly families. Informed families making good choices and parents who discuss these things with their children can make all the difference in handling these scenarios in the future.
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