{"id":1985373,"date":"2023-07-28T18:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T22:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-100-new-york-city-public-school-students-identified-as-x-last-year-report\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T22:03:16","slug":"more-than-100-new-york-city-public-school-students-identified-as-x-last-year-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-100-new-york-city-public-school-students-identified-as-x-last-year-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 NYC Public School Students Identified as &#8216;X&#8217; in 2020: Report"},"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%2Fmore-than-100-new-york-city-public-school-students-identified-as-x-last-year-report%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=1985373&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--><h2>New York \u200cCity Schools\u2064 Allow Children to Identify as &#8220;X&#8221; in Official\u200c Records<\/h2>\n<p>Last year, New York\u200b City \u2062made a groundbreaking change\u2063 in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sf-school-board-president-accuses-mayor-of-division-for-criticizing-renaming-re-opening-plans\/\" title=\"SF School Board President Accuses Mayor Of \u2018Division\u2019 For Criticizing Renaming, Re-Opening Plans\">public school system<\/a> by allowing\u200b children to identify as &#8220;X&#8221; in their official records. This new gender designation option \u200dhas already been embraced by over\u200c 100 students, according \u200cto\u200c data reported\u200c by Chalkbeat.<\/p>\n<p>In the first year of implementing this option, a total of 108 students in\u2063 the \u2064nation&#8217;s largest public\u2064 school district chose \u2064to have their gender listed as &#8220;X&#8221; instead of\u200d the traditional &#8220;male&#8221; or\u200c &#8220;female.&#8221; These students identify as non-binary or \u200bgender-fluid, and their numbers are expected to \u200bgrow as more children explore identities beyond their biological gender.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;X \u2013 Neither Female nor Male: My student \u200bdoes not\u2064 identify as female or male (for example, identifies as non-binary,\u200c gender expansive, or\u200c gender fluid),&#8221;\u200d reads the\u200d city education department&#8217;s student\u2062 gender change request\u200d form.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to \u2062note that the 108 &#8220;X&#8221;\u2062 gender students only include \u2064those who have actively asked their parents to\u2062 change their \u2064gender\u2064 on \u200btheir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-tim-scott-introduces-bill-to-ban-schools-from-keeping-a-childs-gender-transition-a-secret-from-parents\/\" title=\"Sen. Tim Scott Introduces Bill To Ban Schools From Keeping A Child\u2019s Gender Transition A Secret From Parents\">official school records<\/a>. There \u2063may be other\u200d students who identify as\u2063 something other \u200cthan male or\u200c female but\u200c have not yet discussed it with their parents or bothered to request a\u2063 change \u2063in their school records. Additionally, \u2062trans-identifying students \u2062who identify\u2064 as the opposite gender are\u200d not included\u200b in the \u200b&#8221;X&#8221; gender category.<\/p>\n<p>New York City has been at the forefront of recognizing diverse \u2062gender identities. Birth certificates in\u2063 the city already allow parents to choose \u2062&#8221;X&#8221; as their child&#8217;s \u200dgender, and the\u2063 Department of Motor \u200cVehicles\u200c started issuing driver&#8217;s\u2064 licenses with the \u2064&#8221;X&#8221;\u2063 gender \u200ddesignation last summer.<\/p>\n<h3>Transgender Students and Gender \u2064Transition in Schools<\/h3>\n<p>Since 2019, transgender students in New York City public schools have \u2062been \u2062able to play\u2063 on sports teams \u2062of the opposite gender and change their \u200bgender on \u200bschool\u200d records \u200cwithout going through a legal name or gender change. However, parental consent is required to make \u2064these changes.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-100-new-york-city-public-school-students-identified-as-x-last-year-report\/\" title=\"Over 100 NYC Public School Students Identified as 'X' in 2020: Report\">state education \u2063department encourages school \u200cstaff<\/a> to\u200c keep parents in the \u200cdark about gender transitions in some cases, stating \u200dthat informing parents about their child&#8217;s new gender identity \u2064&#8221;can have severe consequences for\u2062 the student.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Growing Numbers of Non-Binary and \u200cTransgender Youth<\/h3>\n<p>The\u2063 number of students \u200didentifying as\u200c non-binary is on the rise not only in New York City but across the state. In the school year that ended\u200c in \u20622022, the New York state\u2064 education department estimated that approximately 300 students identified\u2063 as non-binary.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, a 2022 report from the Williams Institute revealed that the number of transgender \u200cindividuals\u2064 aged 13 to \u206417 in\u200b the United States has doubled since 2017. In 2017, about 150,000 teens\u200c or 0.7% identified as transgender, but that number has now reached 300,000.<\/p>\n<p>Teens and young \u2064adults make up a significant portion\u200b of the transgender \u2063population, with \u2063about\u2062 43% of all transgender-identifying \u2062individuals being young\u2062 adults or teenagers. Surprisingly, \u2064nearly one in five transgender individuals are minors aged 13 to 17, despite\u200c this age group representing less than 8% of the total U.S. population.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, these statistics highlight the growing recognition and \u2064acceptance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-private-school-students-anonymously-accused-school-officials-of-racism-the-school-caved\/\" title=\"Elite Private School Students Anonymously Accused School Officials Of Racism. The School Caved.\">diverse gender identities<\/a> among young people.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE \u200cTO GET THE \u2064DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Last year, New York City permitted children to choose the gender designation &#8220;X&#8221; in their official public school records. Over 100 students in the nation&#8217;s largest public school district opted for this new gender identity, with 108 students listed as &#8220;X&#8221; instead of &#8220;male&#8221; or &#8220;female&#8221;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1985374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-1985373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-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\/1985373","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=1985373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}