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An Illinois school put a transgender policy in place that gave students that were uncomfortable with it the option to use the nurse’s bathroom. So many students were uncomfortable with the policy that they took the authorities up on that offer so a line started forming down the hall. The superintendent actually said the offending students were “harassing” the transgender ones by choosing a private bathroom.
A transgender can make people uncomfortable
The students were telling the school authorities their feelings. Waterloo Community Unit School District #5 Superintendent Brian Charron wrote to the parents of the district March 17. Charron didn’t take into account the students might be uncomfortable with the decision.
“It was an effort to support those students’ comfort, but unfortunately, it resulted in a disruption. The male students planned to use the nurse’s office restroom at the same time, resulting in a line. This line grew dramatically throughout the day with male and female students, filling the hallway and causing students to be tardy to or miss classes. These actions were not the appropriate way to send a message to the School District. We are investigating this behavior as planned harassment of transgender students.”
The transgender policy wasn’t thought out
Would the authorities have changed the policy if the students had tried to talk about it? Students were being punished by being marked as tardy or absent while waiting in this line. The letter concluded with, “Students who attempt to repeat today’s actions will be disciplined for attempting to cause a disruption in school.”
The new policy was transgender students could use the opposing restroom after developing a “Gender Identity Plan” with school officials. Caroline Moore is the Vice President of Parents Defending Education. She said the students should do exactly what they did.
Students say no to transgender
Moore declared, “Students have every right to push back on school policies that do not align with their belief systems. It is not harassment. What should be considered school inflicted harassment is allowing students to use locker rooms/bathrooms that do not align with their biological sex and creating situations of potential physical violence and sexual assault on school property.”
A public records request produced documents that spoke of a training presentation that included something called a “gender unicorn”. It said schools are obligated to “act in loco parentis,” and “not reveal students’ identities to anyone else (including the students’ families) without students’ permission.”
