Joel Baum

We know from research, long term, very powerful research that affirming a young person's gender leads to better health and well-being, this is about the basic rights and dignity of a human being. Your beliefs do not allow you to refuse to acknowledge who a student is.

This idea of religious exemption, simply because you aren't comfortable with something, flies in the face of so many aspects of public education, imagine if a science teacher who believes the world was created in six days isn't comfortable teaching evolution. That wouldn't fly. Beliefs are one thing, and conduct is something else.