2023 Juneau Municipal Election
Do you think transgender students should be allowed to use bathrooms and play on sports teams that match their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth?
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- School Board
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- Do you think transgender students should be allowed to use bathrooms and play on sports teams that match their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth?
School Board
David Noon
Candidate for School Board
I think that transgender children and all the kids in the district deserve the opportunity to be who they are. I think that there’s reasonable accommodations we can make for students with all kinds of needs. I think there’s a moral panic right now that has been orchestrated nationwide regarding transgender. I don’t think these are issues that need to be distracting us at a moment when we’ve got some pretty severe budgetary problems to be addressed.
Britteny Cioni-Haywood
Candidate for School Board
Yes, I do. I know this is kind of a contentious issue right now, but I am one that will be inclusive for everyone. I think inclusivity is important. I think they can be a marginalized group that is targeted. We already know there are a lot of health issues, mental health issues that can surround that. There’s the assigning of sex at birth and then there’s gender, which is a social construct that is very fluid. I present as female, but I’m also kind of a tomboy at heart, so where I would fall on that scale – I’m fairly old, so there wasn’t all the terminology when I was growing up, but I wonder where I would have fallen when I was younger in that. So I do support that, and having everyone feel included is important.
Paige Sipniewski
Candidate for School Board
While I respect anyone’s choice to identify how they want to, I am for protecting girls and children’s innocence. Little girls should not have a transgender girl in the bathroom or on their sports teams because there is a biological difference, and I don’t think it’s appropriate for kids to be changing in locker rooms or using bathrooms with girls.