Utah School District Gives Parents Option to Identify Their Children as Transgender or Non-Binary
July 25, 2022 | Utah
Parents in a Utah school district are being given the option to choose if their elementary-school-aged children are transgender or non-binary when registering their students for school, according to a screenshot obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Parents in the Nebo School District in Spanish Fork, Utah, are using the online platform Infinite Canvas to register their children for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year, according to a screenshot obtained by the DCNF. The registration form is giving parents the option to identify their children as transgender or non-binary.
The school district is under-performing compared to the rest of the state, posting a 43% proficiency rate in math and a 44% proficiency rate in reading and language, according to Public School Review. About 82% of the students in the school district are white.
The registration form first came to attention in a Stop Critical Race Theory Facebook group, where Executive Director of Californians for Equal Rights Foundation Wenyuan Wu found it, she told the DCNF.
“This is a generic registration form, but it doesn’t change the fact that still parents of rising first graders have to sign that form and have to fill out the form,” Wu told the DCNF. “That’s still problematic and coming from Utah, a traditionally conservative area, makes the case more bizarre or more intriguing.”… (Excerpt from The Daily Caller and The Virginia Star)
