Gender Rights Walkout

Some people don’t quite fit in society’s box of gender. There are people who identify as nonbinary, transgender, genderfluid, agender, etc. Some people have come to accept and respect these different gender identities; after all, we are human.

However, not everyone respects all gender identities; so on Tuesday, November sixth, the middle school Queer Straight Alliance (QSA) organized a walkout to support transgender rights. The walkout occurred at ten o'clock and around a quarter of the school’s students walked out of class to attend. Representatives from the Vermont Law School were at the walkout to voice their concerns about the current issues of trans rights. At the walkout, there was a open mic and students came up and shared their views.

President Trump and the Department of Health and Human Services are attempting to pass a memo that would require people to be identified as either male or female, and refuse to acknowledge when people do not identify with the gender into which they were biologically born. If this memo passes, it will greatly affect thousands of people in the US who identify as transgender.

The November sixth walkout was part of many schools and people all across America who are willing to take a stand and make a change.