{"id":1649637,"date":"2022-09-20T16:37:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649637"},"modified":"2022-09-20T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T20:37:38","slug":"this-washington-high-school-is-instructing-teachers-to-avoid-saying-biologically-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-washington-high-school-is-instructing-teachers-to-avoid-saying-biologically-male\/","title":{"rendered":"This Washington High School Is Instructing Teachers To Avoid Saying \u2018Biologically Male\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-washington-high-school-is-instructing-teachers-to-avoid-saying-biologically-male%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649637&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;&#8221;Biological boy&#8221; is a term anti-trans activists often use to disregard and discredit transgender girls,&#8217; says Seattle-area Lynnwood High School<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA dean shows off a transgender bathroom in his high school (Mark Ralston\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 September 20, 2022 4:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A public high school in Washington State is instructing teachers to avoid the terms &#8220;biologically male&#8221; and &#8220;biologically female&#8221; in the classroom, according to internal documents obtained by the <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Ari Dodge Sheehan, the counseling secretary for the Seattle-area Lynnwood High School, in March sent an employee-wide email to promote &#8220;Transgender Visibility Day&#8221; and provide guidelines on how to work with transgender students. The message included a section on &#8220;terms to avoid&#8221; that listed &#8220;born a man,&#8221; &#8220;born a woman,&#8221; &#8220;biologically male,&#8221; &#8220;biologically female,&#8221; &#8220;biological boy,&#8221; &#8220;biological girl,&#8221; &#8220;genetically male,&#8221; and &#8220;genetically female.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Phrases like those above oversimplify a complex subject and are often used by anti-transgender activists to inaccurately imply that a trans person is not who they say they are,&#8221; Sheehan wrote in the email, which was obtained through a public information request. &#8220;\u2018Biological boy&#8217; is a term anti-trans activists often use to disregard and discredit transgender girls and deny them access to society as their authentic gender identity. \u2026 A person&#8217;s biology does not determine a person&#8217;s gender identity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Facing parental backlash, public school districts around the country have privately pushed radical gender curricula and policies on students, according to a series of internal documents obtained by the <i>Free Beacon<\/i>. A Texas school district, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/texas-school-district-pushes-teachers-to-take-lgbtqia-training-on-taxpayers-dime\/\">directed<\/a> its teachers to take paid time off to take a course on &#8220;how to create supportive learning environments for LGBTQIA+&#8221; students as young as five years old. Nebraska <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/nebraska-education-planned-parenthood-sex-education\/\">secretly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/meet-the-nebraska-parents-who-exposed-sex-ed-activists\/\">tapped<\/a> a Planned Parenthood activist to help <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/nebraska-department-of-education-excluded-religious-groups-from-sex-ed-curriculum-team\/\">draft<\/a> its sex education standards, which included lesson plans on transgender hormone therapy for children as young as 10 years old. The Maine Department of Education, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/this-blue-state-cited-george-floyds-death-to-justify-trans-lesson-for-kindergartners\/\">cited<\/a> George Floyd&#8217;s death in internal communications to justify its Biden-funded sex education lesson that taught transgenderism to kindergartners.<\/p>\n<p>Sheehan sent the email the same month the Biden administration declared that transgender hormone treatments are &#8220;lifesaving health care&#8221; for children and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-and-aclu-gear-up-to-defend-trans-hormone-treatment-for-children\/\">threatened<\/a> to take legal action against states that ban access to these drugs for minors. A White House and Department of Health and Human Services statement in honor of &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility&#8221; this year cited a study from the Trevor Project, which is funded by a hormone-drug manufacturer, the <i>Free Beacon<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/white-house-pushes-puberty-blockers-for-trans-kids\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harmony Weinberg, the communications manager for Lynnwood High School&#8217;s Edmonds School District, said the school &#8220;prioritizes students by creating a sense of belonging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to stress that our students are the reason behind everything we do,&#8221; Weinberg told the <i>Free Beacon.<\/i> She did not respond to a request for comment on whether the phrase ban is official district policy.<\/p>\n<p>Sheehan&#8217;s email also encouraged teachers to use students&#8217; preferred pronouns and names. To do otherwise, Sheehan claimed, would be a harmful tactic called &#8220;deadnaming.&#8221; She claimed transgender students often feel safer in school than at home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here in the Edmonds School District we support the students and allow them to change their name and pronouns to match their gender identity,&#8221; Sheehan wrote. &#8220;Oftentimes school is the only place that trans students feel safe enough to be their authentic selves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other emails, the school district cited research from the Trevor Project, an organization that advocates for transgender hormone therapy for children.<\/p>\n<p>This is not Edmonds School District&#8217;s first controversy involving gender identity. First-graders in the district in March were allegedly given a <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/1st-graders-given-gender-identity-assignment-told-they-can-be-neither-or-both-genders-kindergarten-first-school-lgbtq-fluidity-instruction-washington-seattle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worksheet<\/a>\u00a0that outlined how gender can be &#8220;girl,&#8221; &#8220;boy,&#8221; or &#8220;neither or both.&#8221; The worksheet also included an activity for students to &#8220;create a snowperson that is an example of how you identify yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some Republican governors have pushed back against the White House&#8217;s promotion of transgender identity among children. Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R., Va.) in September\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/community-family\/youngkin-administration-overhauls-policy-transgender-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">directed<\/a> his state&#8217;s schools to recognize transgender students only if their parents approve. Gov. Ron DeSantis&#8217;s (R., Fla.) health department <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/florida-health-dept-slams-biden-admin-for-injecting-political-ideology-into-the-health-of-our-children\/\">dismissed<\/a> the White House&#8217;s endorsement of hormone treatment for minors as &#8220;injecting political ideology into the health of our children.&#8221; DeSantis also successfully pushed to ban lessons on gender identity in his state&#8217;s public schools between kindergarten and third grade.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus &#8216;&#8221;Biological boy&#8221; is a term anti-trans activists often use to disregard and discredit transgender girls,&#8217; says Seattle-area Lynnwood High School  A dean shows off a transgender<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}