Students in the Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania, school district demonstrated Friday against the district board's trans bathroom policy that allows men to use the female bathroom and vice versa.
The student protest was organized after the District Board failed to approve with a majority Rule 720, which separates bathrooms on Perkiomen Valley campuses according to the sex of their users.
Hundreds of students from Perkiomen Valley High School in Pennsylvania staged a walk out after the school board said transgender students are allowed to use whichever bathroom they choose—and voted against a policy that would've required students to use bathrooms that align with… pic.twitter.com/yxoiVFZMb7
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The demonstration was called by a group of students, with whom Fox News interviewed this week. Along with the help of their parents, who also oppose the trans bathroom policy of the school district, students managed to gather hundreds of students to demonstrate against the district's bathroom policy.
"Women's safety is very important and the students who demonstrated are to be commended. They have courage and are exercising their First Amendment rights. This is about protecting our children and our privacy and the boys and girls. It's simple biology," Stephanie Ott, mother of one of the students, told Fox News.
"There has to be some changes. It's just uncomfortable to see 19-year-old men or 18-year-old men in the bathroom," added Victoria Rudolph, a student in the district who organized the protest.
Hundreds of students from Pennsylvania's Perkiomen
Valley School District walked out of class after the local school board failed to enact a policy requiring “trans” students to use the restroom corresponding with gender they were born. John Ott, the student who organized the… pic.twitter.com/uriK3LJllR— Kory Yeshua (@KoryYeshua) September 20, 2023
A traumatized student
The school district Board proposed rule 720 to vote to segregate bathrooms by sex after an episode that occurred at the institute and that demonstrated the vulnerability of adolescents and young women in these scenarios. Tim Jagger, father of a district student, posted a message on social media weeks earlier in which he explained an episode that left his daughter "very upset and emotionally disturbed." Jagger's daughter entered one of the female bathrooms when she ran into a male student.
🚨The Perkiomen Valley School Board in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania rejected a policy to stop boys from using the girls' bathroom.
The good news? Families in the district will have a chance to vote them out on November 7.
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Students in protest
This is not the first time that Perkiomen Valley students have organized a demonstration. In January 2022, according to WPVI-TV , students at the same center demonstrated against the use of masks in the district.
At that time, although the School Board voted five to four to eliminate the mask from everyday use in the district's centers, a group sued against the decision. After a federal judge ruled in favor of the lawsuit, the students took to the streets to protest against the ruling and the wearing of masks.
