Salt Lake City School District pauses plan to train all students on what restrooms they can use

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The Salt Lake City School District told parents Friday it would scrap its plan to deliver a presentation to all students about Utah’s new transgender public restroom ban, informing children about which restrooms they could use at school.

A presentation planned for students aimed to instruct kids to use the restroom of the gender they were assigned at birth.

But a copy shared with parents beforehand apparently did not “acknowledge the existence” of transgender and nonbinary children, prompting blowback from student families, said Emerson Elementary parent Kristen Kinjo. If a student is not comfortable in a school restroom that the law requires them to use, the district will help them create a support plan outlined in the district’s

Utah State Board of Education spokesperson Ryan Bartlett said in a clarifying statement sent to “education partners” Tuesday that the board “has not provided guidance or direction, nor has USBE been directed by the state Legislature to issue guidance or direction, to regarding this bill.”school districts “will determine how best to communicate the requirements listed in the bill to the students and families in their respective communities.

The school had planned to run the district’s K-5 version of the presentation during its morning announcements that day, but pulled it after Grant told all district schools to do so, according to an email Emerson’s principal sent families 35 minutes before the “dance party” and rally.

 

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