Embattled northern Virginia faculty district Loudoun County returned to the information this week over a walkout performed at one of many excessive faculties. College students upset with a coverage permitting transgender people to make use of the bogs and locker rooms of their alternative walked out of sophistication this week in an train of their First Modification rights.
The explanations the scholars expressed for the walkout echoed the identical considerations of fogeys and different college students who’ve stood up and spoken out in opposition to insurance policies that erase feminine protected areas. As with most protests, these college students had been met with counter-protesters who assist the mixed-gendered coverage.
Apart from the plain newsworthiness of scholars strolling out of faculty in opposition to a coverage meant to push gender ideology, the opposite noteworthy facet of this story is the obvious double commonplace imposed on these college students versus those that assist insurance policies such because the one in query. As with most cultural points at the moment, the gender ideology query has change into extra of a testomony to whose First Modification rights are upheld and whose aren’t.
Highschool college students in Loudoun County gathered at the moment to ask the Loudoun County Faculty Board to revive women solely and boys solely locker rooms and bogs in faculties. @7NewsDC pic.twitter.com/EKUj18Hnsf
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) November 1, 2023
From the mouths of babes
This week, between 50 and 100 college students walked out of Woodgrove Excessive Faculty in Loudoun County, Virginia, in protest of Coverage 8040. The coverage permits for non-binary, gender-fluid, and transgender college students to make use of any faculty rest room or locker room of their selecting.
A feminine scholar explained the plain risks and disruption this coverage has induced her fellow feminine friends:
“I ended utilizing them (the bogs) as a result of I don’t know what’s going to occur to me in there.”
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Her considerations and people of her classmates are legitimate and had been a actuality for a feminine scholar in 2021 in the identical faculty district who was sexually assaulted by a skirt-wearing male scholar within the feminine rest room.
She goes on to elucidate:
“…there are women in PE (bodily schooling class) who nonetheless get modified within the rest room stalls in there as a result of they’re afraid of who may waltz in.”
In a time when psychological well being is at a historic low for America’s youth and younger women and girls are bombarded with physique shaming propaganda within the media, it’s alarming that they now must grapple with altering in rest room stalls for concern a male may share what needs to be a protected area for women throughout a weak exercise corresponding to getting bare.
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Nevertheless it’s not simply women sounding the alarms over this coverage.
WATCH: Governor @GlennYoungkin joined @foxandfriends to SLAM Loudoun County faculties for defying college students, mother and father, and the governor’s commonsense insurance policies at each flip:
“I’ve an actual sense they don’t hearken to anyone apart from their progressive left associates.” pic.twitter.com/hHP1yWDJxq
— Crew Youngkin – Spirit of Virginia (@TeamYoungkin) November 3, 2023
Boys matter too
A male scholar explained why he was taking part within the walkout, stating:
“Within the locker rooms within the morning, it’s an invasion of privateness, as I stated, as a result of when males and natural-born males are in our locker rooms, and they’re showering within the morning, natural-born females can stroll in there as they please.”
He goes on to rightly say:
“…that isn’t OK. And it goes in opposition to what we imagine in.”
It’s simple to overlook that boys are additionally part of this equation when directors resolve to undertake insurance policies primarily based on left-wing ideologies. Loos and locker rooms aren’t simply protected areas for women and girls, but additionally for boys and males.
Younger boys and males aren’t proof against physique shaming tradition. The thought of their feminine friends seeing them within the nude not solely opens them up for bullying and presumably compromising conditions, however is essentially fallacious and shouldn’t be what anybody believes in.
Earlier this 12 months, highschool college students in Perkiomen Valley Faculty District, Pennsylvania, walked out in protest of comparable insurance policies.
A male scholar for that walkout explained:
“Women—we needed to guard them. They had been upset. They didn’t need males of their rest room.”
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At the very least younger teenage boys are defending women, however who will shield the boys? And can their voices be heard?
🚨 It seems Loudoun County Superintendent Aaron Spence had time to do an interview at the moment with nationwide tv, however not reply robust questions from native journalists about why he didn’t notify mother and father for weeks about these overdoses. https://t.co/nRO2SGDcek
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) November 3, 2023
Nothing to see right here
The identical feminine scholar who spoke on rest room and locker room use conveyed her and her friends’ frustration with the varsity district:
“We specific these considerations they usually ignore us and write us off as right-wing crazies. We’re not loopy. We’re sick of being right here and simply being utterly ignored.”
These college students aren’t simply being ignored; the varsity district actively silences them. College students who needed to take part within the walkout however didn’t instructed native information outlet ABC 7 News that their academics discouraged them.
A guardian additionally told the native information that a number of members of the varsity soccer staff who needed to take part had been prohibited by their trainer, who threatened to inform their coach in the event that they walked out. Nonetheless, final 12 months, when college students in the identical faculty district orchestrated a walkout in opposition to Governor Glenn Youngkin’s insurance policies, academics actively encouraged participation.
For the walkout this week, the coed organizers had been instructed an announcement can be made within the faculty alerting college students who wished to take part, simply as had been performed for college students final 12 months who protested the Governor’s coverage. Solely this time, no announcement was made.
The organizers for this week’s protest had been instructed they weren’t allowed to have indicators, flags, or mother and father current, they usually additionally had been instructed they needed to keep to the aspect of the varsity. Nonetheless, the counter-protestors had been allowed indicators, flags, and fogeys to take part.
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In addition they had been posted within the entrance of the varsity, conveniently in direct digital camera view of any information stations.
Junior Katie Younger told native information:
“They get to do no matter they need, and we’ve to play by guidelines that don’t exist to them.”
Sadly, she’s not fallacious, and this week’s walkout was most likely the very best and saddest civics lesson on present political discourse she’s going to ever get in class.
A whole bunch of scholars from Perkiomen Valley Excessive Faculty in Pennsylvania staged a stroll out after the varsity board stated transgender college students are allowed to make use of whichever rest room they select—and voted in opposition to a coverage that might’ve required college students to make use of bogs that align with… pic.twitter.com/yxoiVFZMb7
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) September 20, 2023
Not in your aspect
The habits of Loudoun County Public Faculty directors, faculty board members, and the particular curiosity teams that gasoline their trigger proves that none of those teams who declare to care about kids, schooling, and security truly do. What they care about is the agenda that strains their pocket essentially the most.
That agenda doesn’t align with the protection or schooling of youngsters. One of many organizers of this week’s walkout, Ronan Mackey, commented on the foundations they needed to comply with versus what the counter-protesters needed to comply with:
“It’s a double commonplace, I imagine. They’re making an attempt to push an agenda, they usually don’t need us doing what we’re doing as a result of it goes in opposition to what they’re making an attempt to push on us as youngsters.”
Ronan ought to obtain additional credit score in his American Authorities class as a result of it couldn’t be defined higher than how he laid it out. ‘They’ are attempting to push an agenda.
An agenda that needs to erase women, confuse younger individuals at a time that’s already complicated and psychologically weak, and over-sexualize kids. To what objective?
Now, that may be a good query.
That is what is going on in Western faculties every single day.
Woke communist academics are warping the minds of the youth with Social Marxist rubbish.
This trainer took down the American flag and changed it with an LGBT flag. pic.twitter.com/c9CeTq9yoC— Paul Golding (@GoldingBF) October 26, 2023
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