South Western’s elected school board is making some strange decisions.

For the last two years, they’ve fixated on which bathrooms LGBTQ+ kids use. In 2023, officials in this Hanover-area district played musical chairs with school bathrooms in a misguided attempt to appease the loudest bigots among them — ending up with five different types of bathrooms.

After a low-turnout school board election in which several far-right members joined their ranks, they hired a Christian law firm, decided to begin banning books and reopened the bathroom issue. Board President Matthew Gelazela, who was elevated to his post after previously serving as the board’s most vocal bomb-thrower, pointed to Red Lion’s discriminatory policies as something to aspire to.

Now, upon the advice of that law firm — the Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center — the board approved spending $8,700 to cut windows so passersby can look into the so-called “gender-identity” student bathrooms.

  • anon6789@lemmy.world
    33·
    2 months ago

    In case anyone else was wondering how they came up with 5 types of bathroom:

    bathrooms for males assigned as male at birth, females assigned as female at birth, males based on gender identity, females based on gender identity, and private, single-use bathrooms for all students to use.

    Source

    • metaStatic@kbin.earth
      17·
      2 months ago

      the fact they have the space for all of that means they have the space to eliminate communal bathrooms altogether

      • anon6789@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 months ago

        It sounded like that’s their current “problem.”. Since it’s the adults with agendas that are doing the only complaining, the kids are just using whatever bathroom is most convenient, so CIS kids are using the Identify as X bathroom because they don’t care, they just need to use a damn bathroom. I took it as that’s why they want the windows in the non CIS bathrooms.

        I feel stupider for having to try to explain this like it makes any sense. Just have single, unisex bathrooms already like everyone has at home!

    • DillyDaily@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 month ago

      …those don’t even remotely work to serve all genders.

      I still wouldn’t technically be able to pee anywhere if I was a student at that school (other than the single stall room…why not just have a bunch like that?)