The death of common sense revealed itself this week with the allegation that JeffCo Public Schools kept secret about the trans identity of a child when reassigning children to hotel beds during a summer trip to Washington, D.C.
It backfired spectacularly when an 11-year-old girl didn’t find out until it was too late that she was sharing a bed with a boy who identified as female and asked to sleep elsewhere.
The girl who was born a girl was first told to switch beds in the same room.
Then told to keep quiet about the reasons why the boy who identified as a girl was switched to another room with girls whose identities they identify with are unknown.
Confused?
Imagine how all the children involved felt.
The parents are now asking the school system to clarify its policy because their other two children are scheduled to go on the D.C. trip next year, and they want to know the sex of the children sharing beds with their children.
A legal advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom, sent a demand letter on the parents’ behalf asking for a clarification by Dec. 18 as to whether all parents will be informed about the JeffCo Public School’s policy regarding transgender students and overnight room assignments and whether parents will be able to make decisions for their children as to bed partners.
It’s morally absurd that parents would not have a say in whether their prepubescent child can share a hotel room bed with another prepubescent child of the opposite sex.
And yet some in the Colorado media are already trying to frame this situation as a campaign against transgender rights.
Is it really so strange when parents don’t want their 11-year-old-daugther sleeping in the same bed as someone attached to a penis on an overnight school trip?
Children need to be protected, not experimented on with trendy social causes.
And public-school officials need so show some common sense.