Parents of daughters already have enough to worry about. Parents of daughters in Illinois Township High School District 211 now have one more thing to worry about: their daughters being forced to change out of their clothes in front of biological males who choose to identify as female.
Take a minute & watch this: A teenage girl fighting tears because her school board ruled that bathrooms are open to anyone who identifies as a girl. She is terrified that a boy will see her naked, & her privacy concerns are dismissed. She is collateral damage for trans activists. pic.twitter.com/DdecRzbZZh
— Jonathon Van Maren (@JVanMaren) November 18, 2019
What a contrast. pic.twitter.com/0hG2DWdix7
— Jonathon Van Maren (@JVanMaren) November 19, 2019
Here's the details of the story. Right across the country, adults are forcing girls into impossible situations. https://t.co/meeBnmEBn9
— Jonathon Van Maren (@JVanMaren) November 20, 2019
Girls are actually afraid to use the bathrooms in many schools now, and doctors are warning that they could physically harm themselves by waiting until they are home at the end of the day. https://t.co/R1vOJPNN26
— Jonathon Van Maren (@JVanMaren) November 20, 2019
More from LifeSiteNews:
In Palatine, Illinois, a four-year-long debate over “access to locker rooms for transgender students” came to an end this week when the school board of School District 211 voted 5 to 2 to permit students identifying as female to use the female locker rooms. The fight began back in 2015, when Obama’s Department of Education accused the district of breaking the law for refusing to allow a male identifying as female into the girls’ locker room.
After two federal lawsuits, the board decided to vote in favor of permitting students who identify as transgender to use whichever bathroom or locker room they feel the most comfortable with. The new policy reads in part that transgender students “shall be treated and supported in a manner consistent with their gender identity, which shall include students having access to restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identity.”
Female students were upset by this decision, especially as their comfort seemed of little consequence or concern to decision-makers. “I do not want to see a transgender student naked in the locker rooms,” one girl said. Another student, Julia Burca of Fremd High School, was equally blunt: “I feel very uncomfortable and I feel it’s against my rights as a student.”
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Previously, the school district had permitted transgender students to use the locker room of their choice but had asked that male students identifying as female change in a private area. This, as you can imagine, was not considered adequate by transgender students and their allies, and one transgender student, Nova Maday, filed a lawsuit against the district in 2017 because he was asked to use a different changing area that, as the Chicago Tribune put it, “other girls were not required to use.”
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So, one transgender student decided that she shouldn’t have to change in a private changing area, and the school board decided that that was reason enough to jeopardize the physical and emotional well-being of countless female students. A handful of transgender students who can’t bear the thought of changing their clothes in private have effectively been given the power by the school board to violate young women’s privacy.
How can this policy be considered even remotely reasonable?
Man, there are a lot of trans activists saying girls need to just get over themselves and realize this is no big deal. Apparently if your feelings and instincts don't line up with an ideology our culture got on board with 15 minutes ago, trans activists want girls to shut up.
— Jonathon Van Maren (@JVanMaren) November 20, 2019
This is reprehensible.
— ??? ? (@infobee) November 19, 2019
Shameful
— Matriarch McLeod (@MatriarchMcLeod) November 18, 2019
Our girls are being sacrificed at the alter of wokeness.
I honestly miss the days of “Ladies first” https://t.co/FEqph3rXrA
— The Dank Knight ? (@capeandcowell) November 20, 2019
Poor girls. When did privacy, dignity and safety go out of fashion? ?
— Fiona Wade (@knit28) November 19, 2019
The young girl’s pain and tears broke my heart.
Women and girls can no longer find privacy in their changing rooms.
The feminist movement has failed and betrayed girls and women on this issue.Shameful.Painful.Harmful.
pic.twitter.com/GbY3wlyBTE— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) November 20, 2019
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Update:
This is the school board that voted to allow boys into the girls locker room. If you want to give these public officials feedback, follow the link. Cramer and Dumbrowski both dissented, to their credit. The other 5 voted against privacy for girls:https://t.co/b3CAtw90nM
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) November 20, 2019
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