By Elaine Chau, CBC News Posted: Jun 03, 2014 6:17 AM PT
The mother of an 11-year-old transgender child is defending a controversial new transgender policy that is facing opposition from Chinese and Christian parents in the district.
Fiona Chen says her child was born as a girl, but recently decided to come out and identify as a boy. Chen has been helping him through that decision, which include finding acceptance at school.
For the last few weeks, the Vancouver School Board has been discussing a new policy to support transgender students.
The board has had a policy since 2004 to support a positive learning environment for students and staff who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer or transgender.
In the case of transgender students, the proposed changes would allow students to be addressed by the name and pronoun that corresponds to their gender identity
These new guidelines would also discourage sex-segregated activities, and allow transgender students to use whatever washroom they wanted.
More:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/transgender-policy-prompts-mother-s-plea-to-vancouver-school-board-1.2662410------
Seems that more and more often people are transitioning at such an age and having full support from their parents, this surely is a good sign for the future of global understanding.
