“I just want the space and acceptance to be me,” the student said during Tuesday night's Jordan School District meeting.
Jesse Sirivanchi speaks at the Jordan School District board meeting with 11-year-old Alison by his side, on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023.Fox Hollow Elementary School student Alison Sirivanchi approached the podium at Tuesday night’s Jordan School District board meeting with her father, Jesse, at her side.
Most adults who addressed district officials during the meeting expressed concern about potential safety issues if “biological boys” were allowed access to a girls’ restroom. Kaylee Nielson shows support for Alison as she sits with her dad, Jesse Sirivanchi, at the Jordan School District board meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023.
Title IX prohibits, with certain exceptions, any entity that receives “federal financial assistance” from discriminating against individuals on the basis of sex in educational programs or activities.“There are efforts underway to force a radical new interpretation of Title IX that is already undoing the physical protections put in place for ‘biological girls,’” Cline said.
“It is immoral for the [school district] to attempt to condition girls to override their natural protective instincts in order to accommodate boys in their private spaces,” Cline said.“We’ve heard people talk about abuse, and what that is,” he said Tuesday night. “We came here to respond to the chorus of disapproval that is trying to gain momentum to hinder acceptance from the larger community for my daughter. … She’s sitting here listening to these words where she’s not accepted as who she is.
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