NC Superintendent's Move Let Children Change Gender Without Parents' Consent
Catherine Truitt's changes to school records made North Carolina's school system the most hostile to parental rights in the country.
Catherine Truitt handed LGBTQ activists a victory just months after taking office. She ordered schools to stop listing students' legal names on state records and instead use chosen names if requested.
Truitt's department notified school districts that NC's student information system would display a student's "preferred name" on school records.
For years, LGBTQ activists lobbied former Republican Superintendent Mark Johnson to change this. He refused to surrender to the WOKE mob.
Catherine Truitt pushed beyond what radical LGBTQ activists demanded to advance the Transgender agenda. In 2022, Truitt ordered schools to remove students' biological sex status from official state records in at least three districts.
In Wake County, principals, teachers, and data managers told me they were surprised to learn students' sexes in the PowerSchool system had been erased:
"We all just had to discover changes on our own" explained one teacher. "I reached out to a data manager, and she said the action was directed by the state."
In Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools, teachers reported mass confusion during roll calls because no one could find where to input students' sex on the demographic screen in PowerSchool.
See the PowerSchool student demographic printout before changes on the left and compare it to the screen on the right.
One school counselor from Orange County schools expressed his frustration in an email to the school board:
"Gender has been removed completely from PowerSchool by DPI. No announcement was made. Our data manager was running a report and it was just gone.
Without this information, we will not be able to balance the male-to-female ratio in classes. We will not be able to see how many females are enrolled in STEM classes. This is not ok."
TRUIT LEAVES PARENTS IN THE DARK
In combination, these two changes Superintendent Truitt made erase the identity of children in the state record system. It will allow children to choose their names and sex without parents' input or permission.
As a result of erasing children's identities, teachers and counselors can easily groom children into changing their sex without their parent's knowledge.
Under Truitt's leadership, North Carolina public schools have moved further than progressive California in promoting the Transgender agenda. Golden State lawmakers recently passed legislation that requires public colleges to update records for students who have legally changed their names. As a result of the change, California became the first state to allow college students to change their sex without being obligated to do so.
Regardless of what you think about California, the state requires students to wait until 18 to update their sex on student records. North Carolina does not, thanks to Catherine Truitt.
READ ORIGINAL STORIES:
N&O: NC won’t show the sex of students on PowerSchool. It’s meant to help transgender kids.
NC Schools Allow Children to Change Their Name and Sex Without Parental Consent
FOLLOW-UP: Superintendent Truitt Responds to Accusations That She's Trampling on Parents' Rights
What if Supt Truitt were a movie actress? Which character would she play in the Cuckoo’s Nest of NC public schools?
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