California, or at least one part of California, is showing signs of sanity on the entire "gender policy" front. Well, all right, most of California doesn't buy into the whole Left Coast tripe that the coastal elites absorb with their morning lattes, and all you have to do is look at a California congressional district map from the 2024 election to see why. But now we see a walkout to protest the Temecula Valley Unified School District's policy of letting boys use girls' bathrooms and locker rooms, with the protest including students, parents, and faculty.
Southern California students and faculty staged a walkout at their middle school in protest of the Temecula Valley Unified School District's policy that allows transgender girls in bathrooms and locker rooms.
During class on Tuesday, students, parents and faculty members at James L. Day Middle School walked out to protest against the district policy that affirms that transgender students can access bathrooms and locker rooms “consistent with a student’s gender identity.”
Since the start of the new school year, a student who identifies as female has been using the girls’ locker room, parents report.
The student can claim to "identify" as a ham sandwich, a spadefoot toad, or the Messier 13 Great Globular Cluster in the constellation Hercules until he's blue in the face, and he will remain a boy. He has an X and a Y chromosome. He has a boy's wedding tackle (unless an overenthusiastic "gender-affirming care" surgeon has already lopped them off). He is a boy. Facts are facts. In no sane world should he be allowed in girls' bathrooms or locker rooms. Oh, the actual girls in the school were offered an "out," but the "out" is, as these things so often are, an unacceptable load of horse squeeze.
The Board Policy 5145.31: “Religious or Mental Health-Related Accommodations” does offer girls two “outs,” which are either to file a religious-belief accommodation or a mental-health accommodation.
But parents at the protest told the California Family Council that neither option is acceptable. They don’t want to label their daughter with a mental health condition for wanting privacy or claim a religious exemption to avoid boys dressing in girls' locker rooms, parents added. As one mom stated, “My daughter’s not anxious or sick. She just deserves a girls’ locker room.”
Want to know what's acceptable? Boys use boys' facilities, and girls use girls' facilities. That's all. It's that simple. It has been that simple since there have been public facilities of any kind, and likely before that. I mean, there had to be a first time some tribal chieftain announced, "Men go do business on north side of big rock, women go do business on south side."
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The Temecula Valley Unified School District replied, of course.
The district said in a statement that it “respects the rights of students and community members to engage in peaceful expression and assembly,” adding California law requires that students “be allowed to participate in sex-segregated programs and have access to facilities consistent with their gender identity. Any revised proposal will take this requirement into account while addressing the concerns raised by students, parents, and the community.”
The two statements are incompatible. A school board cannot respect the rights of its female students while allowing a boy in the girls' locker room. As for the California law, that needs to change. The state is already playing at snap-and-slash with the Trump administration over that law, and my money's not on California in this one - in no small part because, as we see here, parents and even some faculty have had enough.
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