This week the NY Times reported on a new trend that is raising concern among New York City progressives. Some conservative and moderate parents are speaking up at parents councils about what school policy on hot-button issues should look like.
Perhaps nowhere are tensions more evident than in District 2, a sprawling and diverse section of the system weaving through the heart of Manhattan — from the West Village and Hell’s Kitchen to the Upper East Side…
…last month, parents there passed a proposal asking the city’s Department of Education to review its gender guidelines, which currently allow students to participate on sports teams based on their gender identities, regardless of the sex they were assigned at birth…
During the meeting, parents attending remotely argued over whether their children would be unsafe if transgender girls joined girls’ teams. Several elected…
