The controversy in the state began when legislation to restrict bathroom use for transgender students in the entire Perkiomen Valley School District (made up of about 5,000 students) failed last week. The local school board did not adopt Policy 720, which would have required transgender students to use only the bathroom facilities of their biological sex. Now students have the freedom to choose their own toilet.
This decision caused heated discussion in the community. A father made a widely followed post on social media. He told how his daughter met a boy in the school toilet. “The truth is that my daughter goes to school and will not use the toilet here,” the angry father wrote.
John Ott, a student who organized a protest against transgender regulation, told US broadcaster Fox News: “Girls don’t want to see men in their toilets.” His mother Stephanie supported the actions of her son and his classmates and stressed: “This is about protecting our children and our privacy, and it’s about biological facts.”
