SPRINGTIME FOR GERMANY TOWNSHIP, Pa (BS) – Some students never give the signs on the bathrooms a second thought, but that’s not the case for trans-species students like Rover Shepherd, a junior at Springtime for Germany Township high school.
“I definitely didn’t wanna use a human bathroom, and I was scared to lift my leg near a tree or hydrant because I wasn’t out at school yet,” said Shepherd. “So I just didn’t go to the bathroom or even sniff anyone’s crotch during the whole school day.”
“It’s awful it’s a very bad feeling,” howled Michael Vick, a teacher. “That’s the kind of thing that makes you want to fight for change.”
Last week, the Springfield Township School District became one of the first in Pennsylvania to officially adopt a policy allowing trans-species students to use the facilities or litter boxes of the species they identify with, not the one on their human or American Kennel Club certificates.
“We know this isn’t without controversy,” said Dr. Lassie Trainer, the superintendent. “But regardless, we wanted to make a statement that as a school district, this is who we are, this is what we believe, and we will support all our students, no matter what they believe they are. The haters who oppose this are barking up the wrong tree.”
One critic, the Pennsylvania Family Institute, sent Eyewitness news a statement of its own that reads in part:
“In those areas, the only relevant reason we have different facilities is biological species, not our beliefs, feelings, or attractions.”
But others growl that it’s a matter of equality.
“For the lucky ones of us born as the species we identify as, we get to be who we truly are, so for some students who don’t feel that way, it can be ruff,” said Princess Poodle, student council president.
That is pretty darn clever.. great laugh for the day.