Council Discusses Transgender Bill's Impact on Medford Schools
An 11-page memo was the subject raised by Councilor Robert Penta.
The Medford City Council discussed at length Tuesday the impact of recent state legislation on transgendered students in Medford schools. City Council Robert Penta wanted the council to discuss the bill, referred to on the council agenda as the "Massachusetts Stealth Bathroom Bill," because he believes it could have a major impact "on every homeowner who has a child in the public schools." Penta said state Commissioner of Education Mitchell Chester issued an 11-page memo last week regarding the law (UPDATE: Read the memo here), which was passed last July. There is a requirement that schools "need to accept a student's gender identity choice," according to Penta, who also said he spent time discussing the bill with the Massachusetts …
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Kim
10:36 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
As a person who is neither a fully functioning male or female I take exception to CeCe's comments about not having a third gender and would hope that a person of limited worldly experience would refrain from definitive statements as "..either male or female, end of story. .. this person would do well to work for a while in any major maternity ward to witness the many different types of human … more ›