Results: PA school reverses rule that allows anyone to use whatever restroom they want after student action

In a stunning reversal Monday, the Perkiomen Valley School Board in Montgomery County passed the policy, which applies to the use of restroom and locker room facilities in the district's four elementary schools, two middle schools, one high school, and lone K-12 academy by all of its 5,000 students and 760 staff. Do you agree that restrooms should be gender specific?

The measure had first been advanced after a parent discovered his daughter was afraid of using the girls' washroom, having allegedly encountered a transgender student therein. The father, Tim Jagger, told the Delaware Valley Journal that after learning of his daughter's uneasiness, he contacted district officials, who clarified that students were allowed to use whatever bathroom corresponded with their selected "gender identity." The outlet's report, however, clarified that neither Jagger nor his daughter were 100% sure that the student encountered in the restroom was actually a biological male. According to Jagger, administrators cited a nondiscrimination policy passed in 2018 that had retroactively come to apply to gender identity. Do you think, at times, schools and other organizations sometimes risk students' safety and best practices for the sake of being more "inclusive" and "nondiscriminatory?"

Outrage quickly snowballed, resulting in a student revolt. On Sept. 15, four days after the integration of the new rule, around 400 students staged a walkout from Perkiomen High School. Do you agree this is a serious enough issue to warrant a student walkout do draw administrators' attention to the disapproval of students and parents over their decision that affects everyone at the school?

One student protester, 17-year-old Brandon Corner, indicated there was cause to suspect the transgender bathroom policy would endanger students, alluding to the 2021 rapes executed by a transgender student in girls' bathrooms at two different Loudoun County schools in Virginia (admin note: This does not paint a full picture of the actual issue in Loudoun county--court documents confirm the offender was wearing a skirt when the assault took place. In court, the 15-year-old girl testified that she engaged in consensual sexual activity with the defendant two different times in a girls' bathroom at Stone Bridge High School but on a subsequent occasion was violently coerced into performing sexual acts. Sources in opening message but leaving this sentence here as it was a quote from a student). Do you agree that it is foolish of the school board to incorporate this change so recently after such attacks had occurred at schools, under similar circumstances?

In a 5-4 vote Monday, the board passed Policy 720. The district is now required to "provide access to Multi-User Facilities for students based on their sex. ... In all school buildings in this District, restrooms, locker rooms, and showers that are designated for one (1) sex shall be designated for use only by members of that sex. No person shall enter a restroom locker room, or shower that is designated for the use of the opposite sex." Sex is defined in the policy thusly: "the biological sex classification based upon chromosomal structure and anatomy at birth." (To appease those who are in denial over their birth gender, the school is providing private single-user restrooms available for those specific students.) Are you pleased to hear the reversal by the board over the restroom policy after the protests and activism by the students and parents at the school?