HOW MANY GENDERS?

How many genders are there? This is a question that has merited little discussion until very recently, but there are certain groups in our society who have been targeting young people with the idea that there are possibly more than two. While students may be confronted with this ideology in the general culture, the voters in Palos Verdes should be aware of the position currently taken by the Palos Verdes School District.

PVPUSD Board Policy Adopted in June of 2022

In June, all five members of the current School Board voted to adopt a policy that requires all students, teachers and staff to accept the world view that gender is both subjective and assigned at birth:

Board Policy 5145.3 Transgender student means a student whose gender identity is different from the gender assigned at birth.

The same board policy also states that teachers and staff will risk accusations of sexual harassment if they do not use the preferred pronouns of a student:

“Examples of the types of conduct which are prohibited in the district and which may constitute gender-based harassment include, but are not limited to: Refusing to address a student by a name and the pronouns consistent with the student's gender identity.”

While many people in our community are perhaps open to a discussion of this new world view,

the current School Board in Palos Verdes has taken a stand and created a district wide regulation to enforce that position.