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Assignment:
After reading the excerpt below, provide a discussion response to the questions that follow and include at least 2 direct quotes from Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 of "Understanding Human Differences: Multicultural Education for a Diverse America" by Kent L. Koppelman 6th edition, Copyright: 2020 to help support response and also reference the material where quote was found.
READ:
Rethinking Gender
In August 2013, the state of California enacted a law that gives transgender public school students in the Golden State the right to choose which school bathrooms they wish to use. The bill also allows transgender students who wish to participate in athletics the right to decide if they wish to participate on the boys' or girls' teams.
In 2023, about half the states-typically, those with Democratic state leadership-have some similar regulations that apply to transgender students.
Not surprisingly, this law is controversial. Opponents claim that the law amounts to letting boys go into the girls' locker room and showers.
Supporters claim that the law allows young people to express their sexuality authentically.
QUESTIONS TO ANSWER AFTER:
1. This new law states that sexual identity is a matter of what people feel. Is that standard appropriate? Why or why not?
2. Would we support a similar law in the state of Michigan? At a college or university? Why or why not?