District 211 to Host Education Sessions on Gender Identity

PALATINE, IL - Township High School District 211 will host a series of community education sessions on gender identity and gender development in the coming weeks.

The sessions are being held after the school district reached an agreement last year with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to give a transgender student at Fremd High School in Palatine access to the girls’ locker room. The agreement saved the district from losing up to $6 million a year in federal funding for violating discrimination laws.

The first session in the series on gender-identity and gender development will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on March 3 in the auditorium at Schaumburg High School.

“This is a presentation,” Mark Kovack, associate superintendent for student services, told the Daily Herald. “It is not an open forum with back-and-forth dialogue. We describe it as an educational opportunity. What we hope to accomplish is that people will walk away with some useful information.”

The additional sessions will be held schools’ auditoriums at:

• Hoffman Estates High School from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on March 29
• Fremd High School from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on March 31
• James B. Conant High School from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on April 19
• Palatine High School from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on April 27

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