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.”
what’s next? lower legal age of consent to 6?
Be reasonable....14.
Pervert Rule #1: Go where the kids are.
The civil war can not start soon enough
The very tip of the tail wagging the dog.
Thanks Obama.
Teacher here too! It’s so insane that this considered the new normal. Parents should go nuts on them.
I’ve never heard of a school where teachers used the student’s bathrooms.... this is sick.
I would snatch any kid of mine out of that school so fast, there’d be a trail of fluttering papers behind us.
As long as they stop the insanity on both sides, and atop the mentally ill girls/women as well as the mentally ill boys/men, fully and equally, I ak fine with it.
Anything short of that is clear hypocrisy.
The only people who should be trusted to teach kids are individuals who have high personal moral standards and behave as such. Sexual preference quotas be damned. I can just see the out-of-their-minds libtard imbeciles DumblASSio and his schools chancellor Carranza (for whom the Department of "Education" just built an absolute palace of an office, while kids in classrooms go without sufficient books and other supplies) going over teacher rosters: "Let's see. This class has a lesbian teacher, so that class has to have a transgender teacher, and the other class has to have a token hetero teacher...." They would pay FAR more attention to percentages and quotas than anything like academics or discipline, because "equality" and "diversity" are the ONLY thing these commie imbeciles consider important.
BSA seems to have done pretty well avoiding sexual molestation of boys and homosexual scout leaders....
Whom they embrace.
Anyway, I was a Boy Scout... But my son won’t be.
Guess that’s the only thing that matters.
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