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This week, the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) is expected to approve a draft proposal that would allow transgender athletes to shower and share hotel and locker rooms with athletes of the opposite sex. Hotel rooms "should be assigned," says the policy proposal, "based on [the student 's] gender identity ,” a policy that could result in teenage boys sharing a hotel room with teenage girls. The policy draft seeks to protect the privacy – of the transgender child. School officials may not inform parents whether a student is biologically male or female with a gender "identity as a transgender person" without the student's permission. The proposal outraged parents and community leaders statewide. The Child Protection League, a grassroots organization of concerned parents, put out a full-page ad stating: “A male wants to shower beside your 14-year-old daughter. Are youOK with that?” The Minnesota Catholic Conference has launched an online...

EDMONTON, Alberta , 23 November, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Alberta parents who support traditional values are breathing a sigh of relief after the Alberta School Boards Association ( ASBA ) rejected a proposal calling for policies to deal with an alleged “pervasive school-wide culture of homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism”. Sixty-two percent of the boards voted to reject the proposal at the ASBA fall meeting held on Monday. The motion would have added language specifically singling out gay , lesbian, bi-sexual , and transgender students to an already existing anti-bullying policy. Jacquie Hansen, president of the Alberta School Boards Association, said that the majority of trustees rejected the policy over concerns that it unnecessarily focused on a certain group of students. “The feeling in the room was we’d rather have a policy for all kids and that bullying shouldn’t be tolerated no matter who you are or what you have to deal with in your world.” She called m...

Image via Wikipedia Equity policies purporting to combat “homophobia” amount to “ethical cleansing” that aim to eliminate opposing moral views, says the Catholic Civil Rights League of British Columbia . In a July 6th letter, CCRL BC Director Sean Murphy criticized the BC Civil Liberties Association ’s support for an equity policy that passed in the Burnaby school board in June.  The policy aims to combat “heterosexism,” which it defines as the “assumption that all people are heterosexual and that heterosexuality is superior and more desirable for all people than any other sexual orientation.” Murphy invited the BCCLA to join them in signing a new Declaration on the Authority of Parents and Guardians in the Education of their Children, which they say is a non-denominational statement of principles offered to all people of good will. “The Declaration is not specific to the Catholic Church or Catholic teaching,” said Murphy. “It cites numerous international conventions and d...