Bucks County, Pennsylvania (WCAU) — On Monday night, a school district in Bucks County, Pennsylvania voted 5 to 4 to provide separate bathroom facilities to enable students to use facilities for the gender they identify with.
Many people in the audience were upset by the vote as there was an overwhelming amount of people who spoke publicly who want the policy to stay, but now that will change.
Under the new policy, transgender students will be allowed to use a bathroom of the gender they identify with.
One of the people who spoke publicly was a 2019 Pennridge graduate who identifies as non-binary.
“I’m worried about being harassed. I just want to use the bathroom. I don't want people to pay attention to me. I have to worry about that."
Their comments were followed by many parents who oppose the change.
“We don't like this. It looks like you are playing politics with our kids. It’s inappropriate; not cool.”
“With this policy, you are now trying to dictate how you are going to act as parents to our children against our will. You are not medical or mental health professionals. You are also not complying with the majority of the desires in the parents in the community who have given you ample reasons to keep the current policy."
Here are how the bathrooms will be situated:
- There will be bathrooms for faculty only.
- Then multi-use bathrooms for biological males.
- Multi-use bathrooms for biological females.
- Single use bathrooms.
- Then bathrooms for students who identify as male.
- And bathrooms for students who identify as female.
The decision comes after the Biden administration overhauled Title IX in April, which basically says the previous bathroom policy is discriminatory and a violation of Title IX.
Those new regulations go into effect August 1st, which is when the reversal of the policy will go into effect in the school district.
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