As a parent of children in the Salt Lake City School District, I found Superintendent Elizabeth Grant’s recent email curious.
The email laid out new ways with which the dignity of our children (and of many of the educators who did not go into education to question children about their gender) would be further degraded. It also spelled out the expectation to extend dignity in the face of these humiliations, through the adoption of a “dignity index.”
The index is brought to you by Utah, not far from Capitol hill (literally and figuratively) and seems like a tool for some to voice their demeaning opinions, then question the character of those who speak out about being demeaned. Naming what was done to me does not come from a lack of dignity in me, but from a lack of dignity in the person making me lesser.
If the discourse in opposition to the stripping away of people’s identity is undignified, then what is it called to treat others with disregard, then expect them to do more for you than you did for them and treat you in a way you deem is dignified? Was Gov. Spencer Cox following his index when he called DEI “evil”?
BJ Sparks, Salt Lake City