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A school district in Pennsylvania approved nearly $9,000 ‘to cut windows into the ‘gender-identity’ student bathrooms so passerby can look inside’ (www.yorkdispatch.com)

submitted 1 month ago by UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago

the windows help “[add] privacy in the toilet facility”

?????

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

I don't think these school board members have enough privacy in their homes.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, Republican bullshit is still Republican bullshit.

[-] Hellstormy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Right, Windows never added privacy.

[-] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I understand it now!

The window looks over the sink area where you would wash your hands after ensuring you are dressed and decent upon leaving the private stall.

The idea is by having the window in the wash area, students will be hyperconscious that this is not a private space, and they will be mindful to move into the truly private stall before starting their private business.

I think it's purely to avoid the following example;

The number of times I've stepped into a public restroom because I needed to fix something privately - my stockings are rolling down, a bandaid on my upper thigh needs replacing, my bra strap is coming loose. These are things that are private but not as private as using the toilet, so often I'll just fix these things up while I'm at the sink area, I don't need a stall.

But if someone walks in while I'm fixing my stockings, well they didn't consent to seeing so much of my upper thigh when they turned the corner, and while I personally don't care that they saw me, I can see how a teenage girl might be deeply upset if this happened because she absent mindedly forgot that the sink area is not truly private.

Spooky I think it's to constahtkt remind the students that onky the stalls are truly private.

It's a misguided, and potentially harmful way to do this though...

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