CO- School District 11 grants anti-discrimination protection to transgender stat

[SandraJane]

Colorado Springs Independent



School District 11 grants anti-discrimination protection to transgender status, gender identity and gender expression


Posted by Wyatt Miller on Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM


http://www.csindy.com/IndyBlog/archives/2012/06/14/school-district-11-grants-anti-discrimination-protection-to-transgender-status-gender-identity-and-gender-expression

Rhetoric ran convoluted and dense at last night's Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Education meeting. The board's discussion, which concerned a proposed revision to the district's anti-discrimination policy to explicitly protect gender expression and transgender students from various forms of bullying, occasionally became highly technical — or veered off-topic entirely. Although an unvoiced political dimension seemed to overshadow some of the conversation, the result was what Shawna Kemppainen, executive director of Inside Out Youth Services, called "a great outcome."

And to be sure, the motion passed, but not without a lengthy and sometimes tense discussion on its wording, and what it did and did not include.

[GinaDouglas]

This means that the Republic of Colorado Springs has been forced to knuckle under to Colorado State Law, because there is nothing there that is not required by state law.