The Coming Storm: 'Controversial' Transgender StoriesParker Marie Molloy, The Huffington Post, 10/04/2013 9:40 pm
In the coming year, as A.B. 1266 goes into effect in California, be prepared to read a lot of stories like this: "Local Transgender Student Provokes Mixed Reactions." Leanne Suter of KABC-TV Los Angeles writes about the "controversy" surrounding news that a transgender elementary school student in Glendale, Calif., would begin attending school presenting as a girl. The story goes on to talk about how one parent, Rochelle Mazel, opted to keep her kids home from school on Monday, "afraid the situation at school could be too chaotic or confusing for her children." She later states that she wishes the school had provided a psychologist for the benefit of the other students. Another parent, Natalia Selway, is quoted as saying, "
t would be a lot of questions that would be hard to answer, and I would prefer not to deal with this."
