GIVE students their pronouns. Schools should be safe places in which students should be respected. STOP creating a culture where it is illegal for students to express themselves in schools. PROVIDE students age 14 or older the right to make their own decisions for themselves in schools in regards to their preferred names and pronouns. END the statistic that 1 of 3 of transgender youth have attempted suicide.
Why is this important?
It is heartbreaking seeing my trans friends parent's come into schools demanding that they address their son as their dead names and their dead pronouns. Something that can be so easily avoided. Once fourteen we have rights to our mental health and using our correct names in schools is essential to our mental health. We the youth are American citizens in public federally funded schools whose jobs are to make schools inclusive and welcoming safe places. How are students supposed to respect transgender students if the authority figures don't. Teachers need to set the example and pronouns are that. Schools are all about education. How does this not correlate? The constitution is supposed to protect all of us- our age does not exclude us from the protection of the constitution. Our rights are valid.
1 of 3 of transgender youth have attempted suicide.
