Scottsdale Unified School District’s now-public transgender support plan reveals the district’s planning process for affirming a child’s imagined gender, regardless of parental support, seemingly in opposition to Arizona state law.
The support plan opens with a positive-sounding statement about creating “shared understandings,” about the student’s “authentic gender,” then quickly gets to the task of managing parents who won’t fall in line.
SUSD’s first question is: “Guardians aware of student’s gender status?”
The “Parent/Guardian Involvement” section then asks the child to assess what “level of support” is provided by his/her parents, and continues by suggesting that if parent support is low, based on the child’s perception, “considerations must be accounted for in implementing the gender plan.”
SUSD’s apparent plan to support a child’s mental (and possibly physical) health condition despite parent support, or even knowledge, appears in direct violation of the Arizona Parents Bill of Rights (ARS 1-601 & 1-602) which states that parents have the “right to make all health care decisions for the minor child.”
One parent who spoke to Arizona Daily Independent exclaimed: “These questions suggest that a kid should evaluate a parent’s “level of support” as if a parent’s only purpose is to provide a dystopian safe haven for confused children in need of mental health treatment.”
Adding to the confusion, it was recently reported that Superintendent Scott Menzel believes that “white identity” is “problematic.” However, it is unclear if white students who profess a make-believe gender are also problematic to Menzel, or if by claiming multiple identities they are absolved of their white identity in his eyes.
The “Confidentiality, Privacy and Disclosure” section of SUSD’s transgender support plan seeks to determine the level at which the district should hide the student’s new self-selected gender. One option is that only top level school officials will be aware of the child’s imagined gender. Those officials may include Superintendent Scott Menzel or Associate Superintendent Karen Benson who claims that gender identity lessons for 3rd graders are “instructionally appropriate.”
In the “Student Safety” section, the transgender support plan establishes a “go to adult” at the child’s school, and asks “if this person is not available, what should the student do?” While most parents believe that they should be their child’s “go to adult,” the district seems to be setting up a school official as the child’s co-parent, assisting on very difficult decisions. This would presumably include staff such as Desert Mountain High School librarian and sexuality club leader, Michelle Schulke, who was discovered to have a gender reassignment patient intake form in her SUSD email.
According to the Courage is a Habit organization, promoting school officials as a child’s trusted source for support and establishing consistent pronoun usage are initial key steps in driving division between parents and their children and fully immersing minors into the transgender cult. “No sane parent would approve of their child getting brainwashed to believe they’re a different gender,” states Courage is a Habit. “Once parents push back, they are now “unsafe” and the home is “abusive” while the school is the “safe place”.
In the “Privacy: Names, Pronouns and Students Records” section, the plan poses the question: “How will instances be handled in which the incorrect name or pronoun are used by staff members?” This raises questions about whether the district is allowing gender-confused children to establish corrective actions for SUSD employees who don’t fall in line with Superintendent Menzel’s gender ideology.
Documents reveal that SUSD has fully embraced pronoun enforcement. Teachers not only give students surveys asking them about their pronouns and if their imagined gender identity should be hidden from parents, but district emails show that those teachers’ actions are praised by the SUSD administration. Additionally, Scott Menzel has issued staff announcements discussing his own daughters’ “gender identity,” as if his biological girls are just pretending to be girls.
SUSD’s gender plan offers a name/pronoun planning section that aims to establish how the student’s “privacy” will be maintained, including plans of how to hide the child’s alternate gender name from his or her parents.
SUSD’s transgender support plan next addresses facility usage, including expectations for sleeping arrangements on overnight trips. Evidence exists that the district allows boys to sleep in girls’ cabins at the controversial gender identity camp, Unitown, if the boys claim they are girls, raising questions about whether the district has used the gender support plan for that purpose.
SUSD’s transgender plan next documents the students’ extracurricular activities.
“The child is pulled deeper into the Transgender Cult through GSA clubs and propaganda from child-abusing-organizations such as GLSEN,” according to Courage is a Habit.
Notably, SUSD offers several clubs aimed at promoting alternative gender identity in a positive light, including GLSEN’s Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA), Unitown, and She’s the First. While She’s the First promotes itself as a girls only club, the organizations’ website clarifies: “If you identify with the experiences of girls (gender-nonconforming, genderfluid, transfeminine experiences included) and are up to the age 22, then we’re talking to you!” A “She’s the First” club is listed on the SUSD website for Desert Mountain High School, led by Guidance Counselor Leslie Jones. The PTO recently sent an announcement that the organization funded the launch of the “She’s the First” club. It is unknown if parents are aware that the PTO is spending their donated funds to launch gender identity clubs.
Scottsdale Unified does not require parent permission for club participation, and the district has denied requests for copies of club meeting minutes for the GSA club.
The Scottsdale Unified transgender support plan also asks staff to consider the child’s siblings and the school’s dress code.
While evidence has not yet been found that SUSD offers “transition closets” filled with clothes that students can secretly change into at schools, the SUSD Support Services team has openly promoted sexual events for children and recommended organizations that encourage breast binding and penis tucking.
In an effort to give school boards greater flexibility in removing superintendents such as Menzel who hide plans for supporting childrens’ gender fantasies from parents, Arizona State Rep. David Cook has introduced a bill that authorizes a school district governing board to terminate their superintendent’s employment contract. The bill has passed the House Education Committee on an 8-2 bipartisan vote.
Parents are understandably concerned about signs that Menzel and SUSD have been less than transparent about their actions and policies promoting gender confusion among young students. In fact, the district has a history of inappropriately denying or closing out records requests on topics they wish not to disclose.
If Menzel and SUSD believes that their actions supporting the so-called “gender affirming care” for students is a righteous cause, why not act within the law and be transparent with parents and the community?