(TWITCHY) – We thought this story sounded familiar, so we checked back, and it was in 2018 that an elementary school on Staten Island had scrapped its traditional father-daughter dance over new Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Student Guidelines from the Department of Education. “Father-daughter dances inherently leave people out. Not just because of transgender status, just life in general,” said Jared Fox, the DOE’s LGBT community liaison. “These can be really uncomfortable and triggering events.”
The Virginia Department of Education has come out with its “Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools,” and it’s pretty comprehensive. School districts are allowed to enact their own policies as long as they meet the minimum requirements set out in the state’s guidance. Once again, father-daughter dances are discouraged because they are gender-based events.
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