{"id":821,"date":"2018-05-29T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/susanwright\/?p=821"},"modified":"2018-05-29T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:04:09","slug":"philadelphia-high-school-students-forced-to-fight-the-bathroom-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/susanwright\/2018\/05\/philadelphia-high-school-students-forced-to-fight-the-bathroom-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia High School Students Forced to Fight the Bathroom Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

That which is unnatural cannot be made natural, so at what point do we stop the social experimentation that is going on with our children\u2019s lives?<\/p>\n

In 2016, my home state of North Carolina was in a particularly intense battle, surrounding an ordinance voted on by the Charlotte City Council, when they decided to pass a sweeping city ordinance, that would have thrown public bathroom, in restaurants and schools, wide open.<\/p>\n

As the broadly worded ordinance was written, merely by saying he \u201cfelt\u201d like a woman, any man could have walked into any public ladies bathroom or locker room in the city, at any time.<\/p>\n

There was no public vote. There was no consideration about how uncomfortable it might make others feel. Parents were not consulted, as to if they were opposed or not to allowing teen boys to share the same locker rooms with their daughters in school.<\/p>\n

Governor Pat McCrory and the Republican-led General Assembly had an emergency vote on the issue, and voted into law HB2, the \u201cbathroom bill\u201d that restricted access to public bathrooms, state-wide, to the gender assigned at birth.<\/p>\n

There were allowances made for single-occupancy, gender neutral bathrooms, but that wasn\u2019t enough to calm the raging social justice warriors.<\/p>\n

They descended on the Tar Heel state from every corner of the nation.<\/p>\n

Who knew it was such a revolutionary idea to say men use the men\u2019s room, and women use the women\u2019s room?<\/p>\n

The uproar was eventually quelled, when, in 2017, the General Assembly took it to another vote, and it was agreed that the state would repeal the bathroom bill, with the agreement that no city would attempt to unilaterally set laws regarding things as sensitive as bathroom issues, again.<\/p>\n

The ordinance they attempted to pass was squashed, and things went back to where they were before.<\/p>\n

I followed and discussed that situation extensively throughout the process, and was struck by the glib nature of those pushing in favor of making public bathrooms in the state a free-for-all.<\/p>\n

A Charlotte newspaper, The Charlotte Observer, ran an op-ed regarding the controversy, and the writer actually said the words: \u201c\u2026girls will have to get used to seeing penises in their bathrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s ridiculous, and the kind of attitude that makes parents push back against the insanity that happens with liberals attempt to use our children and our schools as laboratories for social experimentation, with no regard to safety or moral issues.<\/p>\n

And it has happened again.<\/p>\n

The Christian Post<\/a> is reporting on a case in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Boyertown Area Senior High School is the scene for a legal case, Doe v. Boyertown Area School District. Parents and students alike are protesting against the district decided to make bathrooms in the schools anything goes.<\/p>\n

One female student wrote about her experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to think that one quick trip to the bathroom can change your life,\u201d the student, Alexis Lightcap, began an op-ed for\u00a0The Inquirer,<\/a>\u00a0published on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a junior in high school when I ducked into the girls\u2019 room at school one day to find \u2026 a boy. I froze. Three years at this particular school, and that had never happened to me before,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girls\u2019 bathroom had always been the girls\u2019 getaway place \u2014 a place for privacy, mostly, but also a little refuge \u2014 a place to get away from boys, maybe talk about boys, but not meet boys.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What\u2019s more, Lightcap says she told a teacher and the principal about her concerns, only to be blown off.<\/p>\n

She continues.<\/p>\n

\u201cI soon found out I wasn\u2019t the only one caught off guard by this new, \u2018open door\u2019 policy. A boy at our school was in the middle of changing clothes in the boys\u2019 locker room when he looked up to see a girl changing her clothes nearby,\u201d she said, referring to the other plaintiff in the lawsuit in question.<\/p>\n

\u201cMovies and TV try to make that sound funny or sexy, but that\u2019s not how it feels when it happens to you. It\u2019s just embarrassing, awkward, and uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Adolescence is an awkward time, as it is. This puts undue pressure on the majority of students, and also makes for a potentially dangerous situation. The Boyertown district was very wrong to think so little of the majority of those students and their parents.<\/p>\n

Lightcap said that she and the boy brought their concerns to the administrators of the school, to no avail.<\/p>\n

The boy she is referencing is being referred to as \u201cJoel Doe\u201d and is the subject of the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe administrator he talked to just told him to \u2018tolerate it\u2019 \u2014 to \u2018make it as natural as possible.\u2019 How do you make something as unnatural as that \u2018natural?\u2019 How natural would you feel, having someone of the opposite sex standing next to you \u2014 or your child \u2014 while you change clothes or go to the bathroom?\u201d Lightcap asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Valid questions, under the circumstances.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Joel Doe, Alexis Lightcap, and other students and parents who are expressing their discomfort with this decision, their lawsuit is not having a lot of success. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has descended and they are intervening in the case, happily declaring victory and pushing to make open bathroom doors the policy, nationwide.<\/p>\n

In one of the rare moves, where I find myself agreeing with President Trump, he rescinded an Obama-era policy that would charge schools with Title IX sex discrimination violations if they attempted to stop the integration of boys and girls in school bathrooms and locker rooms.<\/p>\n

This was part of the Obama administration\u2019s vile attacks on the state of North Carolina, during the heat of the HB2 battle.<\/p>\n

Still, Lightcap argued that despite what the media portrays, students with objections to new bathroom policies are not \u201cbigots\u201d or \u201creligious extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess it\u2019s always easier to label people than to think about where they\u2019re coming from,\u201d she argued.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have a problem sharing a bathroom with someone who identifies as transgender \u2014 provided they are the same sex I am,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do have trouble with a policy that says anyone who\u2019s in an opposite-sex mood today can stroll in and observe me in my intimate moments \u2014 and with school officials who value the feelings of a few students more than the dignity and privacy of all those in their care.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s commonsense. It\u2019s common decency.<\/p>\n

And sadly, we\u2019re at a time in our world\u2019s history where both are in short supply.<\/p>\n

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