By CatholicVote | Created at 2024-11-22 21:09:45 | Updated at 2024-11-23 03:08:42
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CV NEWS FEED // In three incidents this week, parents and students in two districts in California and one district in Wisconsin rallied against pro-transgender policies in their schools.
In the most recent incident, on November 20, parents of two students at Martin Luther King High School in California filed a federal civil rights complaint over the school’s treatment of two girls who expressed discomfort over a biological male on their track and field time, according to Komo News.
The parents stated that the school violated Title IX policy and First Amendment rights of the two girls, identified as T.S. and K.S. One of these girls was kicked off the team and replaced by a male, identified as M.L.
M.L. allegedly did not meet all of the eligibility requirements for the team and missed practices. T.S. says that she lost college recruitment opportunities since she could not compete for the varsity team at an important meet.
T.S. and K.S. wore shirts that said “Save Girls’ Sports” and the school district made them change the shirts. When the girls went to their athletic director asking why they had to remove the shirts, they were told that wearing the shirts in front of a “transgender” student was comparable to waving a Swastika in front of Jewish students.
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In one of nearly a dozen highly emotional testimonies that took place at the district’s school board meeting on November 21, one girl shared in a video posted to X that she felt unsafe sharing a team, locker room, and bathroom with a male student.
“It is not OK that I have to be in a position where I’m going to practice and having to see a male in booty shorts and having to see that around me,” she told the board. “As a 16-year-old girl, I don’t find that as a safe environment. I don’t at all. And going into a locker room and seeing males in there, I don’t find that safe. I don’t find going to the bathroom safe when there’s guys in there. It’s not okay.”
She student also came to the defense of her teammates, saying that the girls involved in the lawsuit “are two of the most nice [sic] people I’ve ever met in my life,” and said it was unfair that they were accused of committing a hate crime or personally targeting their male teammate.
In another recent incident, on November 18, after the heated intervention of parents, a Wisconsin school district reformed its policies allowing students to access bathrooms based on their “gender identity,” according to Wisconsin Public Radio. Now, students must use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their biological sex.
Moreover, minor students must obtain their parents’ permission to use new pronouns or a name separate from their birth certificate. Teachers may, but are not obliged, to use these new pronouns and names.
In another California school district, on November 15 Stone Ridge Christian school issued a statement that their girls’ volleyball team would not compete against a team with a male player, as CatholicVote previously reported.
The school’s statement read, “[A]s Genesis makes clear, God wonderfully and immutable [sic] created each person as male or female,” the school stated.
The school later added, “Standing for Biblical truth means more than the outcome of a game.”
They also stated that they are committed to protecting their female students’ health and safety.
