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 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.”
Those who attended the protest wore white and pink bracelets that said “Save Girls’ Sports” and held up signs.
