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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They go on and on about how they don't want the dangerous transgenders in the bathroom, but now anyone can peek in to confirm... What, exactly? It's not like the windows are in the stalls, so just for them assume someone gender? "You look too feminine, no boys room for you. Sorry, too masculine, no ladies room." What's next, strip searches? Wtf is it with them and the bathroom...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What’s next, strip searches?

Hardly "what's next". This has been a fixation by conservatives since since the Obama Administration

Aimee Toms was washing her hands in the women’s bathroom at Walmart in Danbury Friday when a stranger approached her and said, “You’re disgusting!” and “You don’t belong here!”

After momentary confusion, she realized that the woman next to her thought — because of her pixie-style haircut and baseball cap — that she was transgender.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

These are the people who continually call everyone on the left "groomers" and taking an unhealthy interest in kids? The same people cutting peepholes into school bathrooms?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Guys, guys... If we just hurt these kids enough, it will force them back into the closet and we'll get to pretend LGBTQ+ kids don't exist!" - These assholes, probably

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's the plan. Ostracize to literal death and pretend it's an unfortunate side-effect that following a god (more specifically, their god) will fix.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's not the substance of the issue that matters at all, it's the taboo. Accepting these kids diminishes their kink, they're not being naughty if it's socially acceptable and wheres the fun in that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Seriously though, what the actual goddamned fuck.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You've always got to show up for those school board elections now. Every. Single. Time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Or live in Houston and the governor can just strip your School Board of power, then install an unelected bureaucrat to loot the school treasury.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Tread on me, daddy.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I can't believe this isn't illegal. What the thru idk fuck.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sorry isn't "gender identity" the most common public restroom type in America, and also the opposite of the one they're concerned about? They aren't putting windows in the boys' room or the girls' room, which are segregated by gender. These are the gender neutral restrooms that they want to peek into (or really, discourage anyone from using). Up is down with these people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Time to retrofit some staff bathrooms and save them 18k doing it themselves

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

starting to think the anti trans crusaders are just paedophiles looking to legitimise paedophilia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Pedo-con theory is a "theory", like the theory of Gravity is "only a theory."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

?????

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Right, Windows never added privacy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week 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...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Looking at Children Pee is NOT what Pedophiles do! Pedophiles are the ones NOT Looking at Children's Genitals!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Gorilla glue and posters. Repeat Ad nauseum.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so they can watch kids defecate? what is wrong with these inbred fuckups?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well no, they're monitoring who is using the bathroom. It's 100% just so they can make lists and check them twice to number who's naughty who's nice.

Ed: to be cheese I don't agree and this is dumb but I do love a dumb rhyme

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (7 children)

From a local station.

"Our students should not consider the space outside of our stalls as private within the multiuser restrooms. Our current policy states 'In any facility in a District school that is for use based on Gender Identity, in which a person may be in a state of undress in the presence of others, school personnel shall provide private changing areas for use.' Areas between our stalls and sinks in multiuser restrooms are not private changing areas under that policy.

Just fucking WOW. I guess we should check their assholes next.

https://www.wgal.com/article/parents-upset-over-window-installation-south-westerns-gender-inclusive-bathrooms/62492963

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

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.

Fucking VOTE you dumb sons of bitches!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

These are really fucking weird and dangerous people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Conservatives are cockroaches.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

man from the child molester party wants windows in childrens bathrooms for totally not molester reasons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

This won't help much, hard to tell much just by someone's face. What we need here is a window specifically for viewing the children's genitalia. And then we need a dedicated monitor to watch all the children use the bathroom.

John, the repressed religious fundamentalist, has already volunteered. We've designed a room where he can monitor the genitalia from the holes we've cut, and we've also installed cameras inside the urinals and toilets with a feed that goes to the monitoring room, in case anyone tries to defeat our system.

The monitoring room has no windows or cameras in it, and the door locks from the inside, so, I think we've finally solved the problem. Consider the liberals owned!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

What fucking law firm approved this? Must be one Trump uses. Because letting people look in on underage kids in the bathroom must be unconstitutional not to mention illegal? If that was going on in my kids school I be suing.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow that's a pretty disgusting clip even for Southpark

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i think we should probably take a page out of the book of "historical chinese cuisine" and cook dumplings in the piss of young boys or whatever the fuck that one thing they do is.

not /s, (well aside from my satire)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This seems to be a pretty blatant violation of IBC chapter 21 1210.3

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That doesn't seem to be a code? Are you talking about the cope lintel and I guess 2104.1.1?

*oh that's some 2021 version change. PA is on 2018 and chapter 21 is masonry which got me to the other violation.

You can violate 2021 IBC all you want in PA because it isn't adopted code. 2018 only cares about privacy for urinal partitions and the enclosed stalls which weren't touched.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Throwing out codes when you don't know any details about the situation is classic lemmy brain

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perverts and child abusers, the lot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

They're so concerned about what's going on inside children's pants that they now was to watch them in bathroom.

Sounds pretty fucking weird to me

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whoever approved this is clearly very weird.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Yeah, is this not like blatantly pedophilic? Very weird

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Conservative Christians increase their involvement and within a year the children's bathroom has a viewport for pedophiles installed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

The only way to stop a bad guy with a window in your child's bathroom to watch them pee, is a good guy with a window in your child's bathroom to watch them pee

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