Posted on 02/22/2020 6:21:04 AM PST by Kaslin
MADISON — As the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) faces a lawsuit over its policy on student gender identity, it’s being accused of discriminating against transgender teachers in the bathroom.
On Tuesday, Madison Teachers Inc. (MTI) fired out a press release asserting it supports equal restroom access for MMSD students and staff. The union doesn’t like the district’s directive to Frank Allis Elementary school staff to “limit their use of restroom facilities to the single person restroom.”
The union’s Equity and Diversity Committee, as well as MTI’s board of directors, released a statement saying that they “stand with Vica Steel and all our transgender, gender non-binary, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer or questioning, intersex, and asexual or allied (LGBTQIA) staff.”
Steel is a transgender science teacher at Frank Allis. In a letter published in Our Lives Magazine last month, Steel claims that she used the women’s/girls’ bathroom across from her classroom beginning in January after coming out last March. The district received a complaint and asked the elementary school’s principal to come up with a policy barring staff from using the same bathrooms as students.
“MTI supports staff’s and students’ right to fully exercise their individually identified expression in an environment free from discrimination of any kind,” the union said.
In short, MTI supports transgender women (who used to be men) or men transitioning into women (and vice versa) using student bathrooms.
If all access is granted to transgender and transitioning students, then it must be applied to teachers, the union insists.
MTI demands the school district:
Will that include the voices of staff who disagree with the union and the district about their ideas of “equal restroom” access?
MTI President Andy Waity did not return a call or an email from Empower Wisconsin seeking comment.
As the union notes in its press release, MMSD does not have a districtwide policy which restricts staff restroom use. It is common practice for adults to use multi-stall restrooms, the union asserts.
“Our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions,” the union press release concludes.
But the transgender bathroom issue is more than just a distraction. It’s a legitimate concern for parents and students in the district.
MMSD spokesman Tim LeMonds recently told the Cap Times that a Frank Allis Elementary School parent whose child reported feeling uncomfortable using a children’s bathroom contacted the district to ask about what district practice is ”regarding adults using children’s bathrooms.”
Steel wrote on Facebook that she wasn’t following the district’s order. She’s still using the women’s/girls’ bathroom across from her classroom.
“I can’t say what will happen next, but I am hopeful that they (the district) will proceed with more care and that they will bring more voices, especially transgender voices and the voices of other marginalized people, to the table so any change of policy or practice is non-discriminatory,” Steel wrote.
It’s been a rough week for MMSD.
On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a lawsuit alleging district policies that enable children, at any age, to change their gender identity at school without parental notice or consent violate the constitution. More so, the public-interest law firm alleges, the policy instructs district employees to “conceal and even deceive parents about the gender identity their son or daughter has adopted.”
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Teachers should never have been using elementary school kids’ facilities IMO.” is exactly right.
Am I understanding this right? That a man who says he is a women can go into the little girls restroom?
Yes, parents. This "thing" is using the little girls room.
I'm sure ALL of the Democrat parents don't have a problem with this.
I know of a few Scout Leaders that went “two deep”....
Pedophiles!
Proves teachers are mainly pedophiles anymore.
Once again LIB lunatic “educators” abusing children. There should be no tranny “educators” anywhere near children. The mentally ill belong in mental institutions. Home school!
NO adult should EVER be using the childrens’/student bathroom. Ever.......
It’s simple really..... The BSA pockets are deep and more accessible than church pockets.
The plaintiffs are bring charges that are related ti incidents many many years ago
Greedy lawyers are the actual problem. They will destroy that which is good to take their money
Why don’t they just let the transgenders use the teacher’s bathrooms?
Bookmark
Another opportunity for the queers to recruit.
I am a public school teacher in a high school, and I have never, ever used the students bathroom. And that’s a high school! This is an elementary school. Even if this teacher was a normal woman, I’d not want her using the kids restroom. But a man???? The world has gone mad.
Who does that surprise?
It ain't a SHE, dammit!
Keep public school teachers away from children.
The world has gone mad.
No people stopped thinking and and allow others to do what ever they want weakness breeds stupidity.
Yes...that’s what is really needed
I went to Frank Allis Elementary School from age 5 to 9. My kindergarten classroom had 45 kids in it as we were the first part of the post-war baby boom. The teachers then must have been too busy to manage the herd than filing grievances over bathroom use. Later, in H S, the only teachers that went in bathrooms were there to check on smoking or bad behavior and those teachers only went into the bathroom of their same-sex.
No one of us at that time ever knew of cross-dressing and I doubt if any doctor then was able to do a legal sex-change surgery. I thought to call another boy a sissy meant he was bad at sports or not aggressive. It wasn’t until I went to college that someone told me about homosexuals and how that form of sex was performed.
Liberalism is a mental disorder
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