ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota school teachers “should not assume a student’s name or pronoun,” and should avoid calling students “boys” or “girls.”

“Teachers should address students as ‘students’ and ‘scholars’ to be inclusive as opposed to ‘boys and girls,’” according to a new “Safe and Supportive Schools for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students” guide approved Wednesday by the Minnesota Department of Education’s School Safety Technical Assistance Council.

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The so-called “transgender toolkit” offers schools 11 pages of advice on handling transgender student issues, from how to address transgender students, to bathroom and locker room policies, to editing school documents to reflect students’ preferred gender, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.

The Council approved the nonbinding measure for distribution to the state’s public schools for students from kindergarten through 12th grade during a meeting that drew more than 200 supporters and opponents to the Minnesota Department of Education.

On one side LGBTQ advocates with OutFront Minnesota applauded the move, while those with the Minnesota Family Council spoke out against the advice.

“Concerns of gender-conforming students and parents are ignored and dismissed” in the toolkit, MFC CEO John Helmberger said.

“”This toolkit undermines my authority as a parent and confuses my children about their biological reality and breaks down the bodily privacy boundaries that I have taught them,” said Joy Orbis, a mother of four in the Anoka-Hennepin School District, according to Minneapolis Public Radio.

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“The toolkit encourages teachers to teach false conceptions of gender,” Barb Anderson, another Anoka-Hennepin district resident said.

The toolkit talks a lot about bullying transgender students and states teachers should call students by whatever name they want so they feel safe in school.

“When students are referred to by the wrong pronoun by peers or school staff, students may feel intimidated, threatened, harassed or bullied,” it reads. “School staff can ensure a more respectful environment for all students when efforts are made to correct the misuse of pronouns, as well as names, in student records.”

The Minnesota DOE alleges in the document that calling a child by the wrong pronoun violates the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, according to The Washington Free Beacon.

“Teachers could address students as ‘students’ and ‘scholars’ to be inclusive as opposed to ‘boys and girls,’” the document advises.

Schools should also do away with prom king and queen, and instead adopt “prom ambassadors, “homecoming court,” “homecoming royalty,” or other genderless titles.

There’s also special recommendations for transgender Native Americans.

“In some communities, the term ‘Two-Spirit’ is used for an American Indian person possessing a blend of male and female spirits,” according to the toolkit. “The term honors people of native heritage. Two-spirit students traditionally do not seek out medical transition nor use the language of transgender nor gender nonconforming to describe their gender.”

At least two Minnesota state lawmakers have spoken out against the move.

“I do not see sensitivities to a 13-year-old Christian girl or a kindergarten boy who cannot possibly have a sexual orientation,” state Rep. Tim Miller said, adding that he’s certain no one in his district supports the toolkit.

Rep. Abigail Whelan compared the special transgender pronouns to people deciding their own race.

“If someone says they want me to refer to them by a different race, I wouldn’t do that,” she said.

Miller also appeared on Fox News to discuss the toolkit.

“I really feel like common sense has sort of left the room, and the Department of Education is really focusing on something that is not supported by the people of Minnesota,” he said on Fox & friends.

“There’s a social agenda and my concern is that the responsibility of schools is to ensure the safety and privacy of all students and when you have an agenda like this that is being pushed in the state for a very small distinct group, you are not serving the broader base of all the students,” he said.

Others, like Minnesota School Boards Association executive director Kirk Schneidawind, are pointing out that the toolkit is merely nonbinding advice and questioning whether it could cause more harm than good.

“Hopefully, this does not create more confusions for all our students,” he said, according to the Post Bulletin.