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Students will soon get their first look at School District 67’s proposed sexual orientation and gender identity policy.
Board trustees unanimously approved the draft policy in principle Monday, and will elicit feedback from partner groups until Feb. 1, 2017.
Superintendent Wendy Hayer says they were first approached by students in June, following the mass shooting at a Florida gay bar that killed 49 people.
The students from Penticton High asked for a rainbow crosswalk to be installed, and a sexual orientation and gender identity policy to be created. The board approved the crosswalk and promised to get to work on the policy in the new school year.
In September, the province mandated that all school districts have LGBTQ rights within their anti-bullying policies.
The SD 67 policy gives students the right to keep their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex assigned birth private at school and allows them to be addressed “by a name and pronoun that corresponds to their gender identity.”
Schools will continue to keep a student's legal name and legal sex on file for official record keeping purposes.
While students have not been involved in the development process so far, assistant superintendent Todd Manuel says he has kept many within the district’s diversity clubs in the loop, who will be offering feedback on the draft policy in January.
