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23. The Guide further directs and instructs administrators and staff to deliberately and intentionally conceal from parents information related to their children’s assertion of a discordant gender identity: Q: A student has exhibited behavior in school leading administrators or teachers to believe the student is LGBTQ+. Should the parents or legal guardians be notified? A: No. Outing a student, especially to parents, can be very dangerous to the students [sic] health and well-being. Some students are not able to be out at home because their parents are unaccepting of LGBTQ+ people out. As many as 40% of homeless youth are LGBTQ+, many of whom have been rejected by their families for being LGBTQ+. Outing students to their parents can literally make them homeless. (Exhibit A, p. 15).
24. Plaintiffs are informed and believe and based thereon allege that the directive to not tell parents about their children’s gender identity issues represents a de facto policy sanctioned and authorized by the School Board, in accordance with Chairwoman Bowen’s statement at the “All Together Now” conference: 3 There are some segments of the community that would be more receiving and accepting of LGBTQ students than others. And in those pockets in which parents don’t have that understanding, and parents won’t accept, I think one of the challenges that we have to deal with is to find a way to help the parents see who these students are and there is a great need. I know there are a lot of pockets here in Leon County, a lot of African-American parents who say, “There’s nothing wrong with you. You just need to leave it alone.” They just dismiss it. I don’t mean to point fingers but we need to deal with the elephant in the room and have the kind of training and understanding to have these parents see that these children are important.
25. The Guide further directs and instructs administrators and staff to deliberately disregard the rights of parents in a document labeled “Leon County School District Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Student Support Plan.” (“Student Support Plan”) (Exhibit A, pp. 19-27).