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President Biden/the Department of Education are currently trying to amend Title IX to better protect trans and nonbinary students; transphobes are flooding the public comments. You too can comment and tell them that trans and nonbinary kids deserve legal protection! The ACLU has a page on the artificial furor over trans athletes you may wish to review.

I have put my comment below the cut if people would like to use it as a model.

I am writing to strongly support the proposed updates to Title IX. The federal government should support and protect all of its citizens, perhaps most especially its most vulnerable -- such as trans children. Trans, gender non-conforming, and nonbinary students should be safe at school and in their athletic communities, and their safety depends on the adults around them respecting and supporting them as individuals with autonomy. Cisgender boys and girls do not need to be "protected" from the existence of their trans, gender non-conforming, and non-binary classmates; instead, everyone should be protected from the homophobic, transphobic, and fundamentally mean-spirited desire to control and manipulate others.

Comments

[sathari]

Thank you for this--- that's a great comment. I went and commented as well. (Also, I am noticing and loving the difference in this comment page from the ones I remember from the, ah, previous "administration"--- this one is so much more oriented to preserving privacy while establishing the commenter's stakeholding role. I just honestly flipping love how good at the basic functions of government this administration is.)

[watersword]

It's such a relief to have grownups in charge again.

[chestnut_pod]

I've left a comment! After reading yours, I wish it had been longer, but I think I got in the most important parts.

[watersword]

One sentence of non-transphobic support is better than 0!

[minoanmiss]

Well said! I wrote something very plain because I wanted to make myself just do it.

[otter]

I appreciate your comment very much. I will go and leave a similar one.

[pipisafoat]

Thank you for bringing this to our attention and sharing such a great comment! I did use it for inspiration and then shared with my circles in addition to leaving my own comment.

[watersword]

Thumbs up!

[firecat]

Thank you for making it so easy to comment. I borrowed some of your language.

[j00j]

Thank you!

[bethctg]

Done. Thank you!

[mdlbear]

Thank you! Comment sent. (I hope -- it didn't let me print it, so it's possible that the browser ate it.)

[silveradept]

Had been linked and left a comment earlier with different language, but I appreciate the signal boost and the excellent comment left.