Parents in Jefferson County, Colorado, have complained after an 11-year-old girl was allegedly assigned to the same bed as a male during a school trip. They were told before the overnight outing that boys and girls would sleep on separate floors of their hotel.
One of the girls, identified as D.W., discovered upon arrival that she would be sleeping with a biologically male “transgender girl”. She told her mother she felt uncomfortable, after which her mother spoke to the principal. Initially, D.W. was persuaded to move only to another bed in the same room, and to lie about the reason.
The male and another student were eventually moved to a different room. Teachers then ordered D.W. and two other girls not to tell anyone their male ex-bunkmate was “transgender”.
D.W.’s case was taken up by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which wrote to the Superintendent and Board of Education.
“Because [Jeffco Public Schools’] policy prioritizes the ‘safety and comfort’ of only transgender students to the exclusion of all other students, there was no way for D.W.’s parents to request an accommodation prior to the trip so they could protect D.W.’s privacy and ‘minimiz[e] stigmatization’ of D.W.,” the letter explained.
“Therefore, an 11-year-old child was placed in a position where she feared social backlash if she requested a different room in front of other students.”
Similar behavior has been observed in higher education officials. Undercover reporters in Minnesota recorded the Housing Director at the University of St. Thomas promising to keep a (fake) trans student’s sex a secret from other students, only accommodate him with females, and prioritize him for his own private room.
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