Participants at meeting dispute school role on transgender issues and teacher misgendering

Two participants at a local meeting exchanged sharply differing views about how schools should handle gender identity and whether teachers could face consequences for misgendering students, the meeting transcript shows.

One speaker said they opposed transgender-related instruction for minors and drew a line at age 18, saying, "I draw the line with my kids. Anybody 18." The same speaker added, "And he came right out and said, he's got a soft spot for the LGBTQ community. I'm like, I got a tolerant spot for them. I'll let them do their thing and they let me do mine. That's about it. I don't want them anyplace else."

The second speaker acknowledged the difficulty teachers face and raised concern about reprimands, saying, "So did you have any kickback on this with teachers? I mean, I think this helped teachers a lot because as a teacher, I would be afraid if I misgendered some kid and all of a sudden I'm getting reprimanded at school." The speaker added, "Our kids go to school to go to school, and I think we have to constantly remind ourselves and staff and teachers that's what they're there for. Right? They're there to go to school. We wanna we wanna teach them, you know, reading, writing, arithmetic. We wanna give them some durable skills, but all this stuff has no place."

The first speaker also stated, "If you want to be, have ****** dysphoria after you're an adult, go for it," and later referenced recent developments elsewhere, saying, "Well, most importantly, we we talked last week with Trevor Lee what Colorado just did." The transcript does not specify what action in Colorado was referenced or any formal policy change.

The exchange is recorded as discussion; the transcript shows no formal motion, vote or directive related to school policy or personnel discipline. No specific policies, statutes or school-board actions were cited in the conversation.