In stunning reversal, Pennsylvania school board bans boys from using girls' bathrooms following student walkout and successful pressure campaign

Earlier this month, a school board in Pennsylvania voted against a policy requiring boys and girls to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex. The 5-4 vote was denounced by parents and students alike, and the students staged walkouts in protest.

In a stunning reversal Monday, the Perkiomen Valley School Board in Montgomery County passed the policy, which applies to the use of restroom and locker room facilities in the district's four elementary schools, two middle schools, one high school, and lone K-12 academy by all of its 5,000 students and 760 staff.

What's the background?

Republican school board member Don Fountain cast the tie-breaking vote in LGBT activists' favor.

The measure had first been advanced after a parent discovered his daughter was afraid of using the girls' washroom, having allegedly encountered a transvestite therein.

The father, Tim Jagger, told the Delaware Valley Journal that after learning of his daughter's uneasiness, he contacted district officials, who clarified that students were allowed to use whatever bathroom corresponded with their imagined "gender identity."

According to Jagger, administrators cited a nondiscrimination policy passed in 2018 that had retroactively come to apply to gender identity.

Outrage quickly snowballed, resulting in a student revolt.

On Sept. 15, around 400 students staged a walkout from Perkiomen High School.

One student protester, 17-year-old Brandon Corner, indicated there was cause to suspect the transgender bathroom policy would endanger students, alluding to the 2021 rapes executed by a transvestite in girls' bathrooms at two different Loudoun County schools in Virginia.

Support for the proposed common-sense policy and corresponding student demonstrations poured in from farther afield.

The New York Post's editorial board stressed on Sept. 20 that "forcing teens, especially young women, to share deeply private spaces with members of the opposite sex is disrespectful and dangerous. It opens the door to tragedies like the 2021 sexual assault by a skirt-wearing male of a high school student in a girl's bathroom in Loudoun County, Va. And it lets kids know that their actual safety and privacy simply don't matter."

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