Post by Guadalupe on Dec 9, 2015 9:39:52 GMT -5
Transgender issue causing a stir in Wisc. schools
Monday, December 7, 2015 | Bob Kellogg (OneNewsNow.com)
A pro-family leader in Wisconsin remains hopeful lawmakers in Madison will approve a measure she says could prevent exploitation of children in public schools.
The issue of allowing transgender students in public schools to use bathrooms and locker rooms of the biologically opposite sex has roiled communities across Wisconsin. Now – if a proposed bill is passed – Wisconsin would be the first state to prohibit those students from being able to use facilities reserved for the opposite sex.
Julaine Appling, president of the Wisconsin Family Council, says her organization has been hearing from many concerned individuals over the last year and a half.
"... Our offices have entertained phone calls from parents, grandparents, and other concerned citizens from school districts all over the state [who are] alarmed at policies that the local school districts have been considering and, most of the time, implementing," she tells OneNewsNow.
Last month, while speaking at an Education Committee hearing in the state capitol, Appling said school policies permitting opposite-sex facility use is "a social experiment that borders on child exploitation."
She says her organization, which helped to draft LRB-2643/1, believes the constitutional rights of all students should be protected. "And that's exactly what the bill does," she adds. "It requires school districts to designate their restrooms [and locker rooms] in a gender-specific way so there's a men's room and a women's room ...."
According to Appling, the bill defines gender as being "the physical condition of being male or female, as determined by an individual's chromosomes and identified at birth by that individual's anatomy."
www.onenewsnow.com/education/2015/12/07/transgender-issue-causing-a-stir-in-wisc-schools
Monday, December 7, 2015 | Bob Kellogg (OneNewsNow.com)
A pro-family leader in Wisconsin remains hopeful lawmakers in Madison will approve a measure she says could prevent exploitation of children in public schools.
The issue of allowing transgender students in public schools to use bathrooms and locker rooms of the biologically opposite sex has roiled communities across Wisconsin. Now – if a proposed bill is passed – Wisconsin would be the first state to prohibit those students from being able to use facilities reserved for the opposite sex.
Julaine Appling, president of the Wisconsin Family Council, says her organization has been hearing from many concerned individuals over the last year and a half.
"... Our offices have entertained phone calls from parents, grandparents, and other concerned citizens from school districts all over the state [who are] alarmed at policies that the local school districts have been considering and, most of the time, implementing," she tells OneNewsNow.
Last month, while speaking at an Education Committee hearing in the state capitol, Appling said school policies permitting opposite-sex facility use is "a social experiment that borders on child exploitation."
She says her organization, which helped to draft LRB-2643/1, believes the constitutional rights of all students should be protected. "And that's exactly what the bill does," she adds. "It requires school districts to designate their restrooms [and locker rooms] in a gender-specific way so there's a men's room and a women's room ...."
According to Appling, the bill defines gender as being "the physical condition of being male or female, as determined by an individual's chromosomes and identified at birth by that individual's anatomy."
www.onenewsnow.com/education/2015/12/07/transgender-issue-causing-a-stir-in-wisc-schools
