Activist teachers understand how painful it can be for students whose parents won’t allow them to dress as the gender they identify as. And they’ve come up with a solution — “secret gender transition closets.”

Unbeknownst to their unenlightened parents, a student can arrive at school, enter a transition closet, which is equipped with a wide variety of gender appropriate clothing and accessories, and walk out dressed anyway he or she wishes. Obviously, before they return home to their parents, the student goes back into the closet to change into his or her original clothes. And no one is the wiser.

The closets, first introduced at colleges, are now cropping up in public high schools and middle schools, according to a report in The Epoch Times.

Appalling as this concept is at the college level, the existence of these closets in high schools and especially in middle schools is even more inappropriate. The teachers are working to bypass the student’s parents.

The Post Millennial reports that the first transition closet was set up at the Good Shepard Lutheran Church, which is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It was “designed to let trans-identified youth circumvent their parents and socially transition without their knowledge.”

In February, The Post Millennial reported on a now deleted post from a suspended Twitter account that went by the handle @Teacher_Exposed, which tells you everything you need to know about why the account was deplatformed.

The post quoted Oakland, California, high school teacher Thomas Martin-Edwards, a transgender and founder of the “Queer Teacher Fellowship.” Martin-Edwards said, “The goal of the transition closet is for our students to wear the clothes that their parents approve of, come to school and then swap out into the clothes that fit who they truly are.”

Martin-Edwards, whom the report says previously served as the Assistant Principal of the San Ramon Valley Unified School District, compared the transition closet to Superman turning into Clark Kent in a phone booth. “And I use the idea that this is like Superman changing in a phone booth. But that idea actually goes a lot further than that. Because Superman isn’t Clark Kent. Clark Kent is actually the disguise. And when Clark Kent goes into the phone booth, he transforms into Superman, who is really just who he truly is, Kal-El. So this gives our trans students the opportunity to be the superheroes that we know they are.”