And play for the sports teams of their preference
City kids can now change their gender status on school records without any legal documentation — and play for the sports teams of their preference, the Department of Education announced Friday.
With parental permission, students can alter their genders, change their names and join sports teams regardless of what appears on their birth certificate, officials said.
Isn’t that sweet. How many Joes and Bills and Daves will rush to join the girls’ teams in order to win everything, I wonder. How many girls will lose their chance to win anything ever, I wonder.
“Schools are safe havens for students to develop their passions and discover their true identities, and these new guidelines celebrate and affirm all students,” said Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza in a statement.
Actually they’re not. Schools have nothing to do with discovering “true identity” in the sense of something that contradicts one’s physical body. Schools are places to discover interests and aptitudes and how to get better at them, but they’re not about identity. Schools do need to protect students from bullying, and bullying is often around things that can be called identities, but beyond that it’s pretty much none of the schools’ business what “identity” students have, just as it’s not their business what daydreams students have.
“With this updated policy, which allows students to change their name and gender on school records without legal documentation, we are signaling our support for all students regardless of gender identity,” City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said in a statement celebrating the changes.
Kids and their families will also be able to self-report names and genders when enrolling in a DOE school.
The regulations will permanently modify how schools calculate their demographics. Instead of tabulating gender numbers through birth certificates, administrators will now rely on self-reported information.
So demographic information will no longer be accurate. Awesome.
“These new guidelines additionally specify that puberty education classes must be inclusive and affirming to all genders, gender identities, and sexual orientations, and use gender-inclusive language throughout,” the department said.
The DOE added that LGBTQ-related subject matters will become mandatory for all city kids so that “multiple forms of diversity, including gender and sexual orientation, are recognized, understood, and regarded as indispensable sources of knowledge for rigorous teaching and learning,” the DOE said.
“New York City is proud to be leading on policies that allow New Yorkers across the gender spectrum to be themselves in every single area of their lives, especially our schools,” First Lady Chirlane McCray said in a statement.
We have achieved Utopia at last.
And how long before teachers start encouraging girls who are good at math to declare themselves as boys? Because we all know girls aren’t good at math, right?
Two of my better students in the past couple of semesters have been trans-male. These are bright people who will now have their great statistics count on the male side of the column, instead of helping counter the ideas about females and science.
Apoplexy on steroids. I can’t even.
It’s part and parcel of gerrymandering, twitter botting, Citizens United kleptocracy, 1% tax cutting, and every imaginable way that brazen and casual lying, cheating, bribing, stealing, corruption, brutality, etc., are openly practiced and jubilantly celebrated in the cesspool that American society has become.
maddog1129, I wish we could put this one down to the American cesspool, but I think the UK has beat us to a lot of it…this is widespread.
the crux of the biscuit: sports oversight groups hunt out blood-doping, steroids and such, classing them as absolutely verboten, but hormone treatments are accepted as a method for lowering certain measurements in order to allow certain less capable athletes to achieve success . . .
which pharmaceutical companies lost big bucks on steroids but are now racking up big profits on hormone treatments . . .
And if the 18 year olds identify as 12 year olds, that will go over too?
Not so long ago, mere months, TRAs stated that any advantages were eliminated via hormone supplements and T suppression, which implicitly acknowledged that the male body has athletic advantage over the female. Where is that crowd on this item?
Speaking as a victim of the American public school system, I have to jump in here. Schools are not safe havens for children. They are, at best, a few degrees from Lord of the Flies for kids while their parents are able to spend that time working shitty jobs for too little money.
What gets me with this one is that it’s about “name and gender”. Someone’s actual physical body, which they were born with, and of which every cell carries the information about what sex they are, is irrelevant to whether they are a boy or a girl. Their name – the word that was chosen by their parents to address them with, and that might have been any one of a myriad of names available – that’s gotta go, because it labels them as the wrong sex.
But look on the bright side. A gorilla with a human name, like say King Alphonse Kong, in a human suit or otherwise, could take out gold in any weightlifting contest you care to name. That has to be a win for all animals, not just gorillas.
What sort of motivation leads teenage boys to rack up cheap wins over girls? Considering the load of homophobia they must be getting as well.
I hope they get massively trolled by a bunch of mischievous kids (with mischievous parents, since parental permission is required) who change their name and gender every couple of weeks just for laughs, thus inadvertently revealing how foolish this policy is.
Skeletor, that’s a great idea; but would it work? Or would people just tut-tut in sympathy with the children over anyone who that that was ridiculous? It might be worth some trolling to find out. Anyone have a kid in NYC schools?
Ditto that for me, though I have to say the school that victimized me did not have parents spending time working shitty jobs for too little money. In the school I attended, most parents worked great jobs for obscene amounts of money, making my public high school the equivalent in many ways to a private school – which put me in the position of the poor scholarship student. Therefore, natural victim.
I suspect this isn’t just the public schools; from hearing my students talk, I suspect the private schools may be even worse. It’s just kids in general being mean to each other, often using the parameters their parents have taught them for “acceptable” and “unacceptable”.