Others' rights ignored by Dist. 128 policy

In view of Federal extortion (threats to withhold funds) to enforce the use of opposite-sex bath and locker rooms by transgender students, Libertyville-Vernon Hills High has felt it should draft policy in this area.

One understands the pressure they are under. However, it would be utterly unacceptable to create policy without incorporating the input of District 128 residents - input which should have been solicited by administration but which has not been.

Therefore I strongly urge district taxpayers who care about the modesty, privacy and constitutional rights of children to begin to organize and demand a say.

What impact could citizens have? Here are some ideas and I'm sure you have others:

• Policy should immediately self-cancel if an appeals or higher court strikes down the federal mandate.

• Policy should not impinge on students' free speech rights, but instead guard them. Students retain the right to communicate their discomfort to any opposite-sex student using their facilities and to ask him/her to use the unisex facilities.

• Students must not be directed to call any boy by a girl's name/pronoun or vice versa.

• Teachers must respect and enable the expression of views that disagree with federal policy and the gender-redefinition theories undergirding it, as championed by special interest groups.

• Students should be taught the medical facts about transgenderism. Teachers should be restrained from promoting a partisan social-change agenda or confusing such with medical facts.

It's not that we are insensitive to the sufferings of those with gender dysphoria or to the fact that their parents are trying to do the best by their children. It's that everyone else also has rights, and I wonder if their rights aren't being badly overlooked in a rush to political correctness.

Heather Hall

Libertyville