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If you didn't already know it, today (Friday, February 27, 2009) is TransAction Day in the nation's schools. The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)  has sponsored the day, in conjunction with their annual Day Of Silence website. From the webpage on TransAction Day:
Did you know?
The 2007 National School Climate Survey, a national study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) found:
• 85.1% of transgender students reported being verbally harassed based on their sexual orientation and gender/gender expression
• 96.1% of students heard negative comments related to students' gender expression
• 38.4% of students reported feeling unsafe at school because of their gender expression.
• Transgender students reported experiencing higher levels of harassment and assault related to various personal characteristics than other students.
It seems pretty wonderful to me that GLSEN has set aside a day for students to think about the school experiences of transyouth.
TransAction Day, of course, has been noticed by conservative "Christians." CitizenLink (a Focus On The Family subsidiary) and Exodus International have paid attention to this day:
We have to be completely vigilant about what our children are being taught in schools. Parents need to pay attention and raise concerns with their school districts as well as teach their children healthy, biblical role-modeling of their gender.
Gender is not a social construct. It's a biological fact. We have men and women and that's been the case since the beginning of Creation.
--Randy Thomas, executive vice president of Exodus International
File this under know what your enemies are saying -- CitizenLink/Focus On The Family (FOTF) has a article up today entitled GLSEN's TransAction Day Pushes Transgenderism in Schools; 'There is a very radical, extreme agenda at play here.' From the CitizenLink article (emphasis added): |
| Autumn Sandeen :: Today Is TransAction Day - Focus On The Family and Exodus International Comment |
...For TransAction Day, GLSEN makes available curriculum that includes workshops exploring the use of gender-neutral language and terminology. Students are instructed to use pronouns such as "zie" and "hir" instead of "he" or "she" and "his" or "hers." TransAction Day materials also discuss new definitions and concepts, like sexual reassignment surgery and what it means to be a drag queen.
In addition, students are encouraged to advocate for transgender issues in their schools and communities. They are urged to launch campaigns for gender-neutral or multi-gendered bathrooms, and are advised to challenge school policies, such as male-female couples at prom and gender-based colors for graduation gowns. They are also taught how to make their student clubs transgender inclusive.
Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said GLSEN's agenda has no place whatsoever in taxpayer-funded schools that simply need to focus on the academic basics.
"Gay-activist groups like GLSEN repeatedly claim that these schoolwide events are just about making schools safe," she said. "But, if you look at the materials GLSEN is making available to students and teachers celebrating this event, you see there is a very radical, extreme agenda at play here." ...
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) civil rights issues -- and in schools, bulling issues -- are very linked to and entwined with transgender (T) civil rights issues. When conservative "Christian" organizations argue against creating moral laws that treat their neighbors as themselves, use terms like gender confusion not only to describe T people, but also to describe LGB people as well.
Here's how Randy Thomas has talked about T in relationship to LGB and ex-gay in his blog entry The Transgender Double Standard:
It's always astounded me how willing some in the gay activist community are to celebrate someone surgically altering their body to "become" who they perceive to be internally. Yet when I determine I want to reorient my sexual orientation, which does not require drastic surgery or body altering drugs, according to those same activists, I am the one doing damage to myself and others by simply holding to a particular worldview that brings me contentment and sexual reorientation. The transgendered are applauded for radically altering their bodies while I am scolded for holding the belief that I would be happier living out who I truly am regardless of my past life as a gay identified man. It's ok for someone to ignore what they were obviously born as but for people like me ... we are told being "gay" is genetic and should be embraced because we have no other option.
Gay activists, who truly don't represent most who would identify as "gay," celebrate someone discovering their true identity ... well unless it involves spiritual or moral reasons that are contrary to gay fundamentalism. Their moral opposition to my reality is the difference here. For the most part, the transgender person does not call into question the morality of gay activist sexuality and identity in the context of a biblical sexual ethic. My existence, just by being around and talking about it, does challenge those issues. Therefore, since most "transfolk" as others have called them, tow the gay fundamentalist line... they are celebrated as "the new gay."
A little jealousy, perhaps, of LGB people in the LGBT activist community accepting trans people as being rooted in reality, and ex-gay people as being not rooted in reality? Ah, well, that's just a sideshow comment for all of us to ponder. 
But on the serious side, that Focus On The Family has used the Executive Vice President of Exodus International to make its final point about trans people and gender in its piece on TransAction Day (Exodus International being perceived by many people as an ex-gay organization) says something about how FOTF connects lesbian, gay, and bisexual people with the specific issues of trans people. In these conservative "Christian" people's minds (as well as my mind), LGB and T issues are all part of the broader LGBT community's issues -- they'd just likely identify the issues as being part of an extreme, Homosexual Agenda®.
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