Daily Herald editorial "Time for understanding, not derision" misleading

Your editorial 'Time for understanding, not derision' about the District 211 transgender  settlement with a female transgender student doesn't comport with the facts of the settlement. You state it requires the student to change behind the privacy curtain installed for her, adding that this is a requirement "she would most likely in the end have done voluntarily." That is not true. The agreement does not require the student to change behind the privacy curtain as that would be institutionalized discrimination as outlawed by the federal LGBT civil rights policy that prompted federal action to threaten cutting off federal funds to District 211. The fact that the student agreed to use the privacy curtain was the hook District 211 used to approve the agreement. The two board members who voted against the settlement saw through this bit of deception by the board majority.

Secondly, why do you ponder the board's insistence the agreement just applies to this one student when "it is more likely it will come up again." The settlement applies district wide and covers any future transgender, male or female, that comes along. The board is clearly doing this to pretend they got something to placate the fearful and hateful parents who would never abide with the truly fair, non-discriminatory settlement the board actually reached.

While this is a time for "understanding, not derision", it is also a time for clarity, not obfuscation.