“A bunch of people from our school, John Jay, feel uncomfortable,” says a student at John Jay High School, Shauna Neilan. “We want to change that and give them their own spaces to make us more comfortable and them more comfortable.”
Students attending the Wappingers district school in New York State are rebelling against a government-imposed policy that lets students use bathrooms designated for the opposite sex. The protest has provoked a counterprotest by those who want the bathrooms to be open to all.
All this controversy even though, as Spectrum News reports, the school boasts “male and female restrooms, as well as a gender-neutral single-stall restroom that any student may use.”
Meanwhile, a school official says the school will “continue to provide a safe environment for all of our students. And ‘all’ means all, each and every one of them.” But this goal is self-contradictory if a few students are willing to make most others
These administrators should at least say: “We agree 100% with students who object to this wrongheaded policy. Unfortunately, we are too worried about funding and/or legal repercussions and/or the possibility that the government will send troops to enforce the the current transgenderist orthodoxy.
“Until we can gather enough courage to rebel ourselves, we implore students eager to use the wrong bathroom to use, instead, the bathroom designated for their sex. Please respect the sensibilities of your fellow students even if you wish you were a member of the
Three cheers for the students fighting the insanity, three jeers for the dishonesty of school officials.
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Again, those at the commanding heights of culture obstruct an honest discussion.
On the one hand, sex is a biologic matter. On the other hand, the word “gender” is used sometimes to mean sex but sometimes instead to mean psychologic constructs (both social and idiosyncratic) that are related to sex but are not themselves sex. The political left exploits the confusion engendered by the equivocal nature of the word “gender”, and in the context of that confusion insists that the old practice of segregating washrooms by sex must be replaced with the practice of segregating washrooms by imagined identity.
And the resultant problems in the schools are a matter of indifference and craven cowardice on the part of parents.
Wishing you were a member of the opposite sex will not make it so. Neither will hormone treatments or surgery.