Tell the parents

To the editor:

In her Aug. 23 message, Bainbridge Island school superintendent Amii Thompson stated she is, “most proud of…how I have seen our schools create compassionate communities that provide a sense of safety, belonging and inclusion…”

Sadly there is an intolerance at our schools that the district is responsible for and would rather not talk about but that parents need to know.

This administration rescinded the long-standing policy of making, “every reasonable effort to notify parents in advance of the use of potentially sensitive or controversial material.”

Just one aspect of this is the arrival of the new sex-education curriculum called FLASH. It is widely regarded as the most extreme of several state-approved curriculum on gender identity. FLASH introduces children in 5th grade to the idea of taking cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers as a way kids can “change puberty on purpose to better match their gender.”

Those highly controversial drugs are not FDA-approved to treat gender dysphoria in minors and are illegal in many states.

There’s more…“a person knows their gender identity because they feel like a boy, a girl, both, neither or something in between, not because of their body parts.”

And “some gender identities include boy, girl, trans and non-binary.”

Whether you agree that should be taught is not the point. Parents have a right to know what’s going on in the classroom. There is an intentional effort to get to our kids contrary to the wishes and knowledge of their parents.

Thomas Greene

Bainbridge