Bathrooms with a view: Cutting windows into student restrooms is a new level of weird
www.yorkdispatch.com
These adults want to make it easier for other people to watch your children while they’re in the bathroom. It’s absolutely mind-boggling.

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.

  • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
    361·
    9 hours ago

    From a local station.

    "Our students should not consider the space outside of our stalls as private within the multiuser restrooms. Our current policy states ‘In any facility in a District school that is for use based on Gender Identity, in which a person may be in a state of undress in the presence of others, school personnel shall provide private changing areas for use.’ Areas between our stalls and sinks in multiuser restrooms are not private changing areas under that policy.

    Just fucking WOW. I guess we should check their assholes next.

    https://www.wgal.com/article/parents-upset-over-window-installation-south-westerns-gender-inclusive-bathrooms/62492963

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      13 minutes ago

      Ok, I’ll explain that a little better: the place where you take a shit is a private space. The place where you wash your hands is a public space.

      In a normal restroom, it is permissible to be partially undressed outside of the stalls, but within the hand washing area of the restroom, as that can be considered a changing area, like a locker room.

      With the addition of the window, there is no longer a place that can be considered a “changing area” outside the stalls. If they built proper walls and used proper doors for the “stalls”, they just made some private restrooms next to some public sinks.