Posted on 10/08/2018 10:08:05 AM PDT by Simon Green
A Virginia transgender student was reportedly barred from seeking shelter inside her middle school's locker rooms during a safety drill last month.
WUSA reports that the student, who identifies as female, was unable to go inside the girls' or boys' locker rooms during the drill designed to prepare children for school shootings.
The student's name and the name of her school are not being released in order to protect her identity.
Equality Stafford, an LGBT rights group based in Stafford County, Virginia, posted about the incident on Facebook:
According to the post, the student was instructed to sit in the gym bleachers while teachers debated where to place her. She was eventually made to sit in the hallway until the drill was complete.
"During an event that prepares children to survive an attack by actual assailants, she was treated as if she was so much of a danger to peers that she was left exposed and vulnerable," the post read.
Parents, friends and neighbors are planning to protest at a school board meeting Tuesday, WUSA reports.
Stafford County Public Schools Spokeswoman Sherrie Johnson released this statement following the incident:
Stafford County Public Schools does not comment on individual student incidents to avoid divulging confidential information. However, the new superintendent has requested a review of all protocols and procedures to ensure that all children are treated with dignity and respect. We take such matters very seriously and they will be addressed. The welfare of all students is of the utmost importance for SCPS.
More vocabulary con from the left
this is made up story. standard procedure is for the school yo go into lock down. with all students taking shelter where they are when a drill or event happens.
Calm down. The purpose of a drill is to find issues like this to fix so they don’t happen again. The fact is that the school was trying hard to accommodate this child. If you have any complaints, take it up with the parents that caused his/her mental illness.
Regardless of how she identifies, shes a freaking human being that deserves to be protected.
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She has a penis, she is a he.
Calling a male she is fraudulent.
I am picturing the conversation amongst the admin at the school. Do we put “her” in the girls locker room? Or the boys locker room? It seems that no matter what we pick we will either get in trouble by “her” parents for assuming, or by all the other parents for the potentially unsafe condition. Maybe we get less heat if we set “her” aside to figure out later.
Seems to me the school is in a no win situation.
It doesn’t say, but what if this person is very fluid, and thinks he is a boy one day, and a girl the next? Even more of a no-win situation.
Of course, the emergency plan should be to go to the locker room closest to you at the time, regardless of actual gender. Which would nullify this whole complaint.
My thinking exactly!!!
The Emperors New Clothes.
Let the tranny be fodder ?
That’s the message this pushes. But I agree - this is likely very, very fake.
We must quit pandering to the delusions of lunatics.
He could be protected, and receive the treatment he needs, in a mental hospital.
I thought they had whatsitz rooms already
absurd rules equals absurd responses.
“”I thought they had whatsitz rooms already””
Who the heck knows? Who can even keep up with such twisted minds?
I'm so glad I went to school in a simpler time.
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