Jessie Jordan, an 11-year-old at West Elementary School in Coolidge Unified School District, told her mom she wanted to be called a girl when she was 2 years old.
Jessie now identifies as a binary gender, wears dresses, has long hair and can practically run a marathon in high heels, said Johanna Jordan, Jessie’s mother.
Using the nurse’s bathroom was Johanna Jordan’s idea, who talked with the school principal and Jessie’s teachers about keeping her safe. Some of her classmates refused to refer to her as a girl. Mesa Public Schools’ public Guidelines for Support of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students say transgender students participating in sex-segregated school activities must be allowed to use facilities that are consistent with their gender identity. According to the guidelines, schools may not “require transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to use individual-user facilities when other students are not required to do so.
“The narrative that’s playing out is to remove our children from the conversation, to remove them from society by denying them access to gender-affirming care, by denying them access to gender-affirming surgeries, by denying them access to gender-correct documents, and it’s exhausting,” Staas said. Horne couldn’t quote a specific number of calls he received from parents, though he said a “young lady told me that she was shocked that she was undressing in a locker room and on the next bench someone was undressing with male equipment.”
But transgender advocates like Staas say that even without a formal policy mandate, issuing a statement like Horne’s can make students feel attacked. At an after-school program, Grace uses the girls’ bathroom – only after a faculty member checks the bathroom for other students and places a chair outside the door so no one can enter while she is inside.
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