I care to differ on this occasion with a Regent College Professor.
I won’t malign this said professor, but I did take issue with the WSJ Op-Ed he promoted, which weighs in on the transgender debate. All the discussion concerned the recent debate at the Vancouver School Board regarding their policy on how transgender and gender-variant students should be treated. This became a circus when parents self-identifying as conservative Asian evangelical Christians lobbied against it. Much has been said for and against this policy, including the professor’s Facebook wall comment thread. One perspective missing in this banter is that we are talking about only one trans person out of 166 (.6%). Additionally, at most, only one out of two experience gender dysphoria that is severe enough to warrant social and, eventually, medical transition. In other words, all the pedagogical anxiety expressed is, for the most part, unfounded. Not every teacher, class, or school risks being blessed by a gender non-conforming student. A school with a student body of 500 w...