Employees at an Indiana school are compelled to keep their "gender support plans" secret from students' families.

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An email discovered by concerned parents at an Indiana high school reveals a district-wide policy of keeping parents in the dark about the district's assistance for students undergoing gender transition.

A counselor at Pendleton Heights High School in Pendleton, Indiana, emailed teachers on August 16 to let them know that a student had transitioned between genders, give them the student's preferred pronouns, and instruct them not to tell the student's parents because they were "not supportive of the decision."

Amanda Keegan, who taught geography and psychology at Pendleton Heights High School, says she quit in part to protest this policy.

She told the Daily Signal, “When I had to look at that parent, and feel like I was lying to that parent … I was sick to my stomach. I can’t lie to parents. I can’t do that again.”

Both Keegan and McCord told The Daily Signal that they are not qualified to tell parents what information they should know or to diagnose or treat students who might have gender dysphoria. Both of them were upset by South Madison's policy, suggesting that they and many of their colleagues think that nothing should ever be kept from parents.

Keegan also stated that neither she nor any other teacher had ever seen an official Gender Support Plan, whether in blank or full form, and that the only time she received emails from counselors was when they requested that she conceal information from parents.

Keegan was upset that the school system would need her to intervene between a parent and child, recalling how sick she felt after conversing with a parent who was unaware that her child was on a Gender Support Plan.

Kathy McCord, the counselor who wrote the email to Keegan on August 16, consented to speak on the record with The Daily Signal about the email she was compelled to send to Keegan, as well as the district's policy regarding Gender Support Plans and its origin.

McCord stated that she and other counselors have access to these plans, but teachers, parents, and the general public do not, which she disagrees with vehemently. McCord maintained that she and a handful of other counselors loathe this district policy, calling it as dishonest and hurtful.

Source: This story first appeared on Daily Signal

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