4 months ago Share The proposal would add gender identity to a list of protected characteristics as a parenthetical after the category of sex. Doing so would clarify that transgender students are protected.
The Flagler County School Board will consider adding the words gender identity to its nondiscrimination policy a move that would for the first time explicitly protect transgender students during its 6 p.m. Dec. 15 meeting.
The proposed amendment would specify through an added parenthetical that both gender identity and sexual orientation (which is already listed in the policy) are covered under a prohibition on sex discrimination.
Rather than stating that discrimination may not take place on the basis of . color, religion, gender and other categories, the new language would state that discrimination may not take place on the basis of . color, religion, sex (sexual orientation, gender identity) and the other categories.