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There was a time when 70% of the mail you received was about refusing integration, or preventing the schooling of women, too.
Preventing children from using the psychologically appropriate bathroom is a bizarre moral panic, not terribly dissimilar to 30 years ago, when the country wanted you to protect the chirrens from satanist abduction.
They used to do full episode specials about it on 20/20 and 60 minutes.
Stop listening to the parents. They know somewhere between jack and squat about what's right for the children.
Ask the psychiatrists and the ethicists. And nobody else.
Of course you should let a transgendered child act out the gender that their parent correctly allows. To do otherwise is cruel, isolating, and purposeless.
The idea of gendered bathrooms is kind of dumb in the first place, honestly. A product of our puritan heritage. They also thought the school plays you put on are a mortal sin. I think they're culturally appropriate, and probably should get better funded.
Come on.
Are you really going to tell the kids that you know their gender better than their parents and doctors?
Do you really not understand the damage that's going to do?
Please live in this century, and follow the example set by the rest of the planet.
Please?
Our city used to be so forward, modern, decent.
Please do the right thing. You know you don't want to be the regressive district.