Speaker offers insight into transgender issues
Kentucky School Advocate
March 2017
By Vickie Mitchell
Staff writer
JoAnne Wheeler Bland arrived for her KSBA annual conference clinic session on transgender issues pulling a dolly stacked with paper – court cases, public school model policies and guides, scientific and psychological studies, surveys and scholarly articles. The retired attorney from Hardin County shared much of it, including a four-page bibliography of resource materials, with her audience.
In the end though, Bland’s talk was more about her personal life than the reams of paper she piled on a table at the front of the room. It is a story that offers insight for educators today as the debate over transgender students and restrooms consumes many communities and states.