{"id":1807620,"date":"2023-01-16T16:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T21:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807620"},"modified":"2023-01-16T16:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T21:53:21","slug":"oregon-middle-schoolers-allowed-to-skip-class-to-watch-transgender-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-middle-schoolers-allowed-to-skip-class-to-watch-transgender-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Middle Schoolers Allowed To Skip Class To Watch Transgender Show"},"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\">22<\/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%2Foregon-middle-schoolers-allowed-to-skip-class-to-watch-transgender-show%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=1807620&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-->\n<p>Portland middle school students were allowed to skip class in order to view a TV series about a transgender child.<\/p>\n<p>Students at Twality Middle School within the Tigard\u2013Tualatin School Distric skipped class in order to watch \u201cFirst Day,\u201d This TV series is about a 12-year-old boy that identifies himself as a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The TV-watching session happened during the middle\u00a0school\u2019s \u201cTransgender Awareness Week\u201d Held from November 13-19. Students skipped their last two class periods that Friday to watch the show\u2019s first two episodes.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Daily Wire, Twality stated that the school would eventually play the whole series. This was according to one of the PowerPoint presentations Twality showed students.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-489456\" class=\"wp-image-489456 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-copy-3-1024x562.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-copy-3-1024x562-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/01\/image-copy-3-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-copy-3-768x422-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-copy-3-1536x843-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-copy-3-2048x1124-1.png 2048w\" style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-489456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presentation given to students (public record request).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransgender Awareness Week\u201d Involve \u201ceducating the public\u201d  \u201cstanding up for and with Trans people\u00a0at Twality,\u201d The presentation.<\/p>\n<p>This week of activities and events that focused on gender had a strong activism component. It encouraged students to organize events and recruit volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>The middle schoolers were taught about transgender history, pronouns and what it means being an Anonyme in the mornings. \u201cally.\u201d They could also opt in for other activities during lunch like a pizza party to make posters that will be displayed in school hallways. \u201cshow our support for trans people everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-489459\" class=\"wp-image-489459 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-copy-2-1024x561.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-copy-2-1024x561-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/01\/image-copy-2-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-copy-2-768x421-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-copy-2-1536x842-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-copy-2-2048x1123-1.png 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-489459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presentation given to students (public record request)<\/p>\n<p>Parents were informed \u201cTransgender Awareness Week\u201d beforehand and\u00a0given instructions on how to opt out their children, which some parents did, Traci Rose, director of community relations for Tigard-Tualatin School District, told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why the presentation to students only mentions a permission slip signed by a teacher,\u00a0Rose said that in order to watch \u201cFirst Day,\u201d Students had to present a permission slip signed both by their parents and one signed by the teacher that stated they had completed class work.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Kosmala, Principal of Twality Middle School wrote a message for parents that \u201cThe purpose of this week is to celebrate transgender students in our communities and schools, as well as educate our community about how to be an ally to transgender communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedieval Europe had a LOT more pronouns\u00a0than we typically use now!\u201d Families are also encouraged to read this message.<\/p>\n<p>To be taught to middle schoolers \u201ceducate don\u2019t hate\u201d and to use people\u2019s preferred pronouns and apologize when they \u201cmisgender\u201d Someone, according to one presentation to students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t ever joke about your pronouns if you aren\u2019t\u00a0sincere about it,\u201d One presentation is read.<\/p>\n<p>Students were also taught that children as young at 5 could learn. \u201chave feelings about their gender identity\u201d That and more \u201crespecting someone else\u2019s gender identity does nothing to take away from who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are actually over 78 gender identities\u00a0that have been around forever!\u201d One presentation is read.<\/p>\n<p>Suicide was a recurring theme in the school\u2019s presentations to students. The middle schoolers were taught that accepting and supporting a trans-identifying person\u2019s identity makes them less likely to die by suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Students were warned that they could be sent packing if they say or do anything that is not in the student&#8217;s best interests. \u201charmful to the\u00a0community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will be asked to leave the room and\u00a0head to the office to do the Morning Meeting work\u00a0with an adult,\u201d One of the presentations reads.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire was informed by an anonymous source that Twality staff were frustrated at the lack of recognition. \u201cFirst Day\u201d Seeing cut into class time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe teachers are working hard to try to get their students back on track from COVID \u2026 and then they\u2019re losing class time for not research-based material, stuff that\u2019s contradictory. It\u2019s from a biased viewpoint,\u201d The source stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the source, Tigard Tualatin has seen an increase of trans-identifying students in recent years. Twality teachers are sometimes\u00a0\u201ccoached\u201d not to inform parents about their 11 or 12-year-old\u2019s\u00a0new gender identity, the district source said.<\/p>\n<p>The Oregon Department of Education\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/ode\/students-and-family\/equity\/civilrights\/Documents\/ODE-Supporting-Gender-Expansive-Students.pdf\">guidelines<\/a> State that school staff should \u201cto the extent possible\u201d refrain\u00a0from disclosing a student\u2019s gender identity to their parents without the student\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<p>Tigard-Tualatin also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/tigard\/2013\/07\/tigard-tualatin_school_distric_31.html\">allowed<\/a> Trans-identifiable students can use any bathroom they like since at least 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A middle school near Portland allowed students to skip class to watch a TV show about a transgender child. Students at Twality Middle School in the Tigard-Tualatin School District skipped class to watch \u201cFirst Day,\u201d a TV series about a 12-year-old boy who identifies as a girl. The TV-watching session happened during the middle\u00a0school\u2019s \u201cTransgender &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1807623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4130,6123,6202,7088,6642,9096,9558,4019,4516,6195],"class_list":["post-1807620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-allowed","tag-class","tag-daily","tag-middle","tag-oregon","tag-schoolers","tag-skip","tag-transgender","tag-watch","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807620","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}