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suggested that students read My
Princess Boy , a children’s book
about a boy who likes to wear
jewelry and pink clothes. Since
Students attend schools paired with the district
then, the issue has been
in which they live. I f a parent wishes to transfer a
resolved.
child without moving, Portland Public Schools o f
“H e’s opening people’s minds,
fers two services:
definitely,” she says.
Across the Columbia River in
Vancouver, Wash.,
another
Students name schools to which they would like
mother wanted a similar strain
to be transferred, and winners are selected at random.
o f support at her child’s school,
Last year, 3,500 students applied (out o f about 45,000
except her child, who is now age
students in thedistrict), and 70 percent o f those were
10, is transgender.
transferred to one o f their choice schools.
The mother, who wishes to go
by the name Susan to protect
the identity o f her child, says
Students may submit an individual petition if they
she ultimately decided private
have circumstances that prevent them from being at
school would be best. She and
their present schools. Circumstances include bullying,
her husband chose the Gardner
proximity to after-school childcare or a parent’s place
School o f Multiple Intelligences
o f employment, and other situations. In the 2009-10
in Vancouver not only for the
school year, 1,134 students petitioned for a hardship
trans support it could provide,
transfer, and about 60 percent were approved.
Also, private schools, including the Gardner School
but for the higher quality o f ed
and Catlin Gabel, offer financial aid to families who
ucation; her son, who was born
would not otherwise be able to afford the schools.
with female genitalia, also has
an above-average IQ , she says.
Information provided from Judy Brennan, director of
“But when he started going
family support and school choice at Portland Public Schools
there, we didn’t know about
changing his name, or about
him using the boys’ bathroom
this school is a great place to be if your kid
and not the girls’,’” Susan says.
is queer.”
The Portland nonprofit TransActive,
She says her child started saying he was
a boy around age 2, but she didn’t start the which specializes in support for transgen
transition process for him until after he der and gender non-conforming children,
had started school.
says recommending schools to parents is
“Faculty wanted to know what was go ‘difficult because supportive schools are
ing on. They said he would play with the usually made that way by faculty and ad
ministrators, which change frequently.
boys and say he was a boy,” she says.
Susan and her child talked with a trans TransActive’s Z ena Britadesco suggests
therapist, who told her, “You have a little interviewing schools and talking to parents
boy here,” Susan says. Susan then worked before choosing.
with the teachers and administrators to
The group Parenting Lesbians o f Port
make -the transition. The child left for land, or PLOP, meets monthly to discuss
summer vacation as a girl, but returned in issues pertaining to LGBTQ_parents and
the fall a boy. He had a new name and used their children. The group has open mem
bership. JÜÊ
the boys’ bathrooms.
“We didn’t come up against any issues or
hurdles, so I know it seems like we are kind For more information on TransActive, visit
o f an anomaly, and I’m grateful for that,” transactiveonline.org. For more information on
Susan says. “Other people need to know PLOP, visitploppdx.wordpress.com.
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