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Equality for transgender students

Started by Shana A, November 12, 2010, 09:57:31 AM

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Shana A

November 12, 2010, 09:57:31 AM
Equality for transgender students
By Tyanna Slobe
Posted: 11/12/2010 01:00:00 AM MST

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_16586317

My memories of being a young student in the public school system are pretty average. During elementary school I remember lining up in boy/girl assigned lines, princess themed birthday parties, and impatiently awaiting the "girls" day" to play on the playground.

High school was similar; sports teams were separated by gender, girls dreamed of being prom queen, boys aspired to be king, and my school even offered gender segregated classes. I went through 13 years of schooling without giving any thought to these gender-oriented traditions. For me the world fit perfectly into a gender binary.

However, more students than ever are willing to speak out against the gender segregated traditions that schools have adopted. In recent years more students have chosen to come out as transgender. A transgender person is an individual whose gender identity does not match their assigned birth gender.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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