Gender Expression

Gender Identity

Sexual Orientation

Gender Expression

I saw this post on April Griffin's facebook page and in total shock I was wondering what was going on and how could I hear what is happening at these school board meetings.

Quoted Text from April Griffin's facebook post, "Terry Kemple the hate monger". I question, Doesn't this go against EVERYTHING we are teaching children?

Looking
through the Hillsborough County Public School Student Handbook >>>>

Read it for yourself >>>> Hillsborough County Public Schools Student Handbook CLICK HERE

Would this comment by April Griffin be considered: Disruptive, Harassment, Bullying, Aggressive Actions????.... and

L@@K at the screen captured comments from her post....

Before I look up how to listen to the Hillsborough County School Board meetings I looked up the article "Hillsborough School Board delays gender expression vote, citing fears of combative meeting. This is the link to read the actual article click here

TAMPA — Faced with the prospect of religious leaders lining up again to blast them on transgender rights, Hillsborough County School Board members have taken the discussion off the table.

A policy revision that would add the phrase "gender expression" to a list of protections against harassment and bullying will not be considered, as originally planned, at today's 3 p.m. board meeting.

In the meantime, the district is taking steps to educate school leaders in matters affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.

.............The phrase "gender expression" was suggested in January by board member Cindy Stuart, who wanted to strengthen existing policies that ban discrimination based on race, religion, nationality and sexual orientation. The existing policy also mentions gender identity, which is related to, but not the same as, gender expression.

.............In a letter last week to superintendent Jeff Eakins, Stuart said she had wanted the board to make "a very public show of support for a group of students who often have no support."

.............The board discussed the policy at a workshop in April. Not long afterward, the Obama administration issued a directive that public schools must accommodate transgender students' preference in restrooms.

.............The district responded with assurances that it will continue to respect all students as it works to comply with the federal instructions. "We are ensuring that we are in line with existing laws and directives," Taylor said.

.............Terry Kemple, a conservative Christian activist who twice ran unsuccessfully for the School Board, led a group of pastors who blasted the revised policy at the June 14 board meeting and vowed to retaliate politically against anyone who voted for it.

.............Stuart said she wanted to postpone the discussion, in part, because area families are mourning the loss of 49 lives in the June 12 shootings at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando.

............."It's an election year," said Jennifer Morley, Greater Tampa chairwoman of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has been at odds with the district this year over its relationships with Christian organizations. "I think they're silencing the conversation, and that's a problem."

.............Of the seven board members, two — Stuart, who represents north Hillsborough, and Susan Valdes, whose district spans the northwest and Town 'N Country — are running for re-election. Stuart faces Alicia Toler; Valdes is being challenged by Bill Person.

.............Like Morley, Kemple had mixed feelings about the reversal. It showed his campaign was effective, he said. But he is aware the change was largely symbolic, and district staffers — absent direction from the board — are moving to satisfy the Obama directive.

.............His supporters will not back down, he said. "We want to make sure that a biological, anatomical boy who thinks he's a girl, no matter how long he has thought that, cannot go into the girls' shower," he said. "We want gender identity removed from the policy. We want sexual orientation removed."

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I couldn't find where to leave a comment but checking the article again found the Tampa Bay Times posted the following:

Internet searching, "hillsborough county school board meeting" one can click on the graphics to go directly to that screen and then go to the school board meeting by date.