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Fox News and Massachusetts Family Institute Slam New Student Transgender Policy

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Source Summary

The Fox News headline “Students Who Refuse to Affirm Transgender Classmates Face Punishment” sets the stage for this “Cultural War” against trans people written by Todd Starnes. Deconstructing Fox lies. The headline of Starnes article is a lie. There is no wording in the new policy mentioning disciplinary actions of any kind. Todd Starnes writes “The new rules would also prevent teachers and administrators from telling parents with which gender their child identifies.” That’s a lie. According to the Massachusetts Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity the school will be empowered to formulate a plan with the student to inform others that is in the best interest of the student providing the student is over the age of 14 or has entered the 9th grade. If the student is younger than that the students parents should be automatically be brought into the conversation to help formulate the plan. Fox

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Fox News and Massachusetts Family Institute Slam New Student Transgender Policy” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to education and youth, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2013 at Transadvocate.com, “Fox News and Massachusetts Family Institute Slam New Student Transgender Policy” provides dated evidence of how education and youth was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities and research ethics and data governance. It links that institutional frame to education and youth and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Public accommodations and facilities
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How “Education and youth” appears across the Collective corpus

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Kelli

32 publications · 35 inbound sources/citations