Reasonable guard rail? It’s not like school is passing out hormone suppressants and booking surgeries. Schools acknowledge that trans people exist in our society.

This is about using preferred pronouns, maybe reasonable bathroom access, and not being hateful bigots. Is it really that much to expect?

How does that play out in real life?

Fine. And you just dropped in on the Internet for the first time today, I’m sure. I’ll take it point by point. Parents already have the right to know what is going on with their child, in that they’re the parent, they set the tone in nearly all aspects of their child’s upbringing. No teacher or administrator or other school personnel is allowed to keep any part of the educational process private or secret or under wraps or anything. What affects children can be anything and everything, in school, at home, in society, online, etc.

Teachers and administrators and school personnel are not turning kids trans, they’re not grooming them for some other reality. Many if not most trans people know from the earliest age (well before school, even) that they’re not comfortable with their gender. School isn’t making them trans, but educators are doing what they can (with the full transparency enumerated above) to support their students by not demonizing their choices, not adding to the discomfort, and making school safe for everyone.

The overwhelming majority of educators have been dealing with trans students being more visible and less shunned/shamed for only a few years. Teachers and school staff are staggeringly normal representations of whatever district they work in, and many find it awkward, difficult, a little clumsy to navigate how best to support trans kids in the school setting. The point is they’re trying, they’re listening, and they’re succeeding, despite the troglodytes who are too afraid to even ask the most basic questions, and too aggrieved to give the benefit of the doubt to anyone different.

TLDR: you don’t get it, because it’s not your setting. It’s mind numbingly average, and not a Big Scary SEXY Topic at school.

Tell me you’ve never worked in a school without telling me you’ve never worked in a school.

I think they think they’ve never met anyone trans, but many have and don’t even know.

They are being punished for violating the NH Civil Rights Act.

The NH Civil Rights Act would disagree.

The follow up comments were problematic, IMO. It’s not “simply” explaining anything.

NH is mostly white but that does not explain why a NH Alt Right Nazi group would hang such a banner. It’s hairsplitting to give some kid of cover, and it makes no sense.

I think there is a lot of ground between “multicultural mecca” and white supremacy. I think most normal and sane NH and New England and American folks are on that ground and can understand it and appreciate it and respect it. White nationalist nazis can’t. And the reason they can’t isn’t because of demographics. It’s because of fear, ignorance, and anger.

Yes, AND?

Um, wut?

The fuck is wrong with you?

That would get my vote, too. Downtown Concord has a ton you can do on foot, both practically and for fun. Expensive, though.

Does anyone go around hanging signs on overpasses thinking “yes, this is perfectly legal in within my rights”? I don’t think so. They do it anyway. And if someone wants to make a stink about it, they will. If I happened upon that banner and decided to take it down, I know I might be wrong in “precedent”, but I could face the music. Or if I happened upon it and decided to cover it with a BLM or Pride or NH Fisher Cats Banner, I might do it and feel justified, but I might have to face the music for that, too. That’s life in public.

Not “everyone”. I think we can thwart literal white supremacy nazis with the legal process. Seems the very least we can do.

You are giving these young white dudes cover. This isn’t someone’s 98 year old grandpa who never left the state and may have an opportunity to learn something about people that don’t look like him. These are men who had to have been exposed to plenty of black and brown folks in their life, and STILL choose to see this as grievance. They are beyond redemption.

Why even try to understand these white nazis, though? It’s so indulgent, and so disrespectful to the state/region/country. Aren’t we better than this?

If and when you need EMS, do you have them show you their birth certificate first?

By all means, double down in defense of the aggrieved white dudes. It’s NH, after all.

See: Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti Defamation League websites for good insight on hate groups in this state and elsewhere in New England / USA.

Here is a link to an article about hate crimes on the rise in NH: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-hampshire/articles/2023-01-20/reports-of-hate-crimes-have-grown-in-new-hampshire

And of course, with your own eyes, see the evidence of Proud Boys / 3 Percenters / Oath Keepers on a black pickup near you.

It’s okay to not be the target of this to see it and acknowledge it.

White Nationalists are everywhere. It’s a problem.

Maybe they’re black or brown or Jewish or LGBT. Or maybe they’re paying attention to a national rise in hate crimes against <pick any group that’s a target of white male grievance>. Or maybe they pay attention to the intersection of the alt-right / MAGA movement in a state with so few restrictions against guns.

Because that would accept that things can and should change based on the views of the citizens of the state of NH. Isn’t the ethos here on this sub that things should never, ever change? If it’s good enough for MASSACHUSETTS and the rest of the country, we really shouldn’t do that here, right?

Massachusetts is a great place to live, and enough of us are back and forth or have lived in both places over the decades. Being in NH doesn’t = I hate Massachusetts.