On the surface, Nova Classical Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota, has implemented new transgender guidelines that match what many schools across the country are doing. Transgender students will be addressed with their chosen pronoun, they have the freedom to dress as they please and should be afforded access to bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. But as Zack Ford notes, Nova has added some pretty duplicitous fine print that basically renders the policy useless.

Submitted along with the policy were recommendations about how to implement it , which derail and undermine many of its stated protections. As ThinkProgress previously reported, Nova officials seemed particularly concerned about appeasing the parents who aligned themselves with hate groups like the Minnesota Family Council and the Minnesota Child Protection League to oppose trans-inclusive policies. The recommendations directly reflect this attempt to cater to these opponents.

For example, the recommendations agree that students should be allowed to access bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity, and they also call for some of the school's bathrooms to be made gender neutral with floor-to-ceiling stalls — a change the Heritage Foundation found strangely noteworthy . But locker rooms are a different story: