Hunter
04/26/22
The Linn Mar Community School District has voted to create a new policy on transgender students.
KCRG reports that the policy will create a “gender support plan” for students in seventh grade or older, which will include a student’s new name and pronouns. It will decide if students can use locker rooms, bathrooms or stay in rooms overnight correlating with their gender identity.
School Board President Brittania Morey said the policy does not establish new procedures, and was created to follow state and federal law.
A majority of the people at Monday’s board meeting opposed the measure, expressing concerns about student safety and privacy in bathrooms. Others called the board “disgusting,” “pigs,” and threatened to open-enroll their children in another school district.
The station reports that an on-line petition against the policy has garnered about 3500 signatures.
Students at Linn-Mar High School staged a walkout in support of transgender rights after posters touting Transgender Awareness Week were vandalized.