My daughter was a president of gay straight transgender etc alliance which was 10 years ago but I recall they did day of silence. Same as lolagrace I am a public high school teacher ( to be precise special Ed teacher), we don't have such alliance as we are rather small school but we have openly gay and few transgender children and our community is very tolerant and aware. Heck even my special education students who might have some cognitive limitations know that being gay is neither a choice nor life style etc your views shock me.

I previously taught in inner city in a very religious community yet everyone was very tolerant and we did have an alliance that Lola mentioned.

Your extreme views are kind of surprising to me as typically nowadays 17-year olds don't have such lack of awareness. As someone mentioned perhaps it's extreme right wing upbringing to blame as I refuse to believe you mean to be deliberately offensive etc I am not sure. Hopefully as you grow and learn and become more aware.

As about participating you absolutely do not have to!

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