If you're keeping secrets from parents about their children, you might just be the bad guy in the story:
The Chico Unified School Board in Chico, California, voted Wednesday evening to uphold its so-called "parental secrecy policy," which says that school staff should not reveal a transgender student's gender identity to their parents without the child's permission.
The vote comes after the Center for American Liberty filed a lawsuit against the school district on behalf of Aurora Regino, a mother who accused a guidance counselor of helping her 11-year-old biological daughter transition to a male without the family's knowledge.
For the most part, everyone is the hero of their own story. People rationalize and fool themselves to be the good guy.
ReplyDeleteI first started thinking about that when I read Albert Speer's History of the Third Reich. He is the highest ranking Nazi to have written a memoir. Speer comes off as a decent guy who willingly joined the Nazi Party early on because Hitler impressed him. Obviously that doesn't make sense, but it's his side of the story and he think he's a good guy.
The members of the Chico Unified School Board think they are saving the lives of children by protecting them from their unenlightened parents. They are thinking like a cult. Lying to parents is a big red flag that they are not the good guys.