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Which is the best standard-form representation of the following Argument from Principle?
In recent years, more school children have begun to identify as trans and to request accommodation of a gender identity that is not the identity they were assigned at birth. In practice, these accommodations usually amount to a request to be referred to using different pronouns, and a request to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity. For example, a student who began elementary school as a boy might prefer to
Express the gender of a girl, and so request to be referred to with feminine pronouns and to be allowed to use the girls' bathroom.
These requests for accommodation in pronouns and bathrooms have caused controversy, especially in conservative religious communities. But all too often, the argument against respecting a child's gender identity does nothing more than appeal to a religious text or edict. Public schools cannot avoid setting rules governing the behavior of the children who attend them--that is part of their job. But public schools should never set those rules based solely on highly contested religious premises, and it appears that the only way to argue against accommodating the requests of trans kids is to appeal to highly contested religious premises. That's why public schools should accommodate children's preferences about how they express their gender identity.


A) 1) Public schools should never set rules based solely on highly contested religious premises.
2) Arguments against accommodating trans kids' requests appeal solely to highly contested religious premises.
So, public schools should accommodate trans kids' requests.
B) 1) In recent years, more school children have begun to identify as trans and to request accommodation of a gender identity that is not the identity they were assigned at birth.
2) The argument against respecting a child's gender identity does nothing more than appeal to a religious text or edict.
So, public schools should never set rules based solely on highly contested religious premises.
C) 1) Public schools cannot avoid setting rules governing the behavior of the children who attend them.
2) Public schools should never set those rules based solely on highly contested religious premises.
So, public schools should accommodate the requests of trans kids.
D) 1) Public schools should accommodate the requests of trans students.
2) Public schools should never set rules based solely on highly contested religious premises.
So, the argument against respecting a child's gender identity does nothing more than appeal to a religious text or edict.

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