All-boys Browning Faculty head blames ‘tabloidism’ for controversy over choice to confess trans college students

The pinnacle of the elite Browning Faculty praised himself in a letter to trustees and dismissed controversy over the school’s decision to admit transgender boys as “tabloidism.”

“It has been tabloidism, pure and easy, and I’m happy with our group and grateful to all trustees for the sensible, affected person, redoubtable assist — although I’m additionally sorry for the emotional pressure it has positioned on so many,” John Botti wrote within the letter first obtained by the Daily Mail.

Botti, who earns $700,000 a 12 months, additionally claimed he had gotten complaints from solely two dad and mom and one alumnus, insisting “99% of the noise is coming from outdoors the home.”

He boasted of getting heard from “20 New York Metropolis heads of faculty” and faculty leaders from different states “who’ve signaled each their frustration at our media remedy and their solidarity with our considerate and principled strategy to the present second.”

Browning let dad and mom know concerning the new gender coverage earlier this month.

“As a faculty that proudly celebrates and affirms boys at each stage of their lives, we acknowledge that the numerous methods during which gender will be lived and expressed are vastly completely different now than at our founding in 1888,” the distinguished personal Manhattan academy just lately wrote in a letter to oldsters.

The elite Okay-12 faculty — which prices $62,500 a 12 months and was based to coach brothers Percy and John D. Rockefeller — added on its web site, “The Browning Faculty will think about for admission any baby who (i) identifies as a boy or (ii) was assigned male at beginning, who needs to hitch a boys’ faculty and is well-served by our mission.”

One guardian who spoke to The Put up Saturday stated a few of the claims Botti made within the letter to trustees had been unfaithful.

“Botti waited till he received the contracts signed in March by the brand new college students enrolled for September earlier than he wrote this ‘inclusive’ letter that betrays each cause dad and mom ship their kids to a TRADITIONAL BOYS SCHOOL,” one Browning guardian emailed The Put up.

“The brand new contracts since 2020 give the varsity all authority and none to the dad and mom who complain.”

“It’s a lie that just one decrease faculty guardian complained,” the guardian added.

“Everyone seems to be livid that they’ve thrown the varsity and its historical past down the drain for bending over for any baby with gender dysphoria that may be higher suited to a coed faculty whereas they ‘determine it out.’”

Previous to the choice on trans coverage, a seven-year member of Browning’s board of trustees resigned and slammed the varsity in a blistering letter.

The board member, who famous they’d even be yanking their sons from the varsity, wrote that “Browning has degenerated right into a morass of dysfunction, misfeasance, and unfairness” in a part of the resignation letter posted on Instagram.

The Browning Faculty is barely the most recent single-gender prestigious academy within the metropolis to confess trans college students.

In 2018, each the Spence and Brearley all-girls faculties introduced they’d be accepting all candidates who establish as feminine.