My Word: Treating transgender children as mentally ill creates the problem

InsideBayArea.com – By Rafael Pineda and Maria Jos Mu oz

We second Kerry Cook’s gratitude to the Alameda Unified School District for creating the Community Advisory Committee, albeit for entirely different reasons. We are thankful that the district is working to create a more inclusive and tolerant environment in our schools.

She says, “Our hearts are broken for all the elementary school children who are being taught that a mental illness called Gender Identity Disorder … is a normal behavior called transgender.”