Opinion

Those who hate and believe in disproven science are a dying breed. It is slow change, but it is change. Soon they will be gone. Let them rant as much as they like. You do have people who support and believe in you and stand by your side.

Response to Moving On of March 9, 2024. So, what is truth? Funny you should ask.

Ron Wyzikoski stated that his point of his letter to the editor on February 17 was about the “fear” of teenagers not being able to openly express their ‘discomfort’ about dressing in front of someone whose body does not match their gender. This to him is ‘bullying’. I hope he read the ‘article’ in March 2nd issue by the Cook County Pride Committee where youth in our school are talking about the bullying that is going on currently against 2SLGBTQIA+ youth (Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and those + who identify in other terms).

Four months ago, Dr. Bruce Dahlman was dismissed as an ER physician at North Shore Health. Why it happened and how it happened shocked the community Dahlman had served for three decades. Shock turned to anger and then action. An online petition calling for Dr. Dahlman's reinstatement and the termination of the hospital CEO was signed by 751 people in little more than a week. Over fifty citizens attended the next hospital board meeting, many speaking on Dahlman's behalf and confronting the board members with firsthand grievances experienced as NSH employees. The public outcry from this courageous testimony was picked up by all media in the county, plus the major Twin Cities newspaper.

There have been a few editorials recently on the ISD 166 policy allowing young men into the woman’s locker rooms and vice versa. It is amazing and disheartening that we are at this point. Simply put, Men belong in the men’s room and Woman belong in the women’s room. I agree with Mr. Wizykoski’s editorial. If an adult chooses to change in front of the opposite sex, go ahead, but to insist students have to share a locker room with a member of the opposite sex is bullying. As a taxpayer, the school district not notifying the public on this policy change is a major concern to all taxpayers.