This Thursday, the Nevada Board of Education is set to implement unprecedented mandates on all Nevada public schools.

The Nevada State Board of Education is currently considering adopting and implementing regulations that could force all Nevada schools to allow bathroom and locker room use based on gender identity, rather than biological reality. This means that biological boys would be allowed into the girls’ bathroom and locker room, and vice versa, simply based upon professed feeling.

These regulations would also mandate classroom activities that promote the idea that gender is fluid. These regulations are an invasion of physical privacy as well as an assault on the freedom of parents to teach their children about these sensitive issues at home. The Department of Education is inserting itself where it does not belong.

Under this policy, students could be disciplined for using "wrong" gender pronouns.

The Nevada Department of Education is listening to the ACLU and other activist groups and trying to push their progressive social agenda on our schoolchildren. The proposed regulations deprive local schools of the ability to find solutions that work for all students - instead imposing a one-size-fits-all-policy dictated by those with an agenda to push.

We, the undersigned, believe that every Nevada student, including those who identify as transgender, is entitled to a good education, to protection against bullying, to the freedom to speak their mind, and to have their privacy honored by the school. Unfortunately, the current proposed regulations are not about protecting student rights, but about trampling them. We are urging the Legislative Commission to oppose the proposed regulations and to ensure that all regulations adopted by the Nevada Department of Education promote local control and protect the privacy rights of all students.