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South Western’s elected school board is making some strange decisions.

For the last two years, they’ve fixated on which bathrooms LGBTQ+ kids use. In 2023, officials in this Hanover-area district played musical chairs with school bathrooms in a misguided attempt to appease the loudest bigots among them — ending up with five different types of bathrooms.

After a low-turnout school board election in which several far-right members joined their ranks, they hired a Christian law firm, decided to begin banning books and reopened the bathroom issue. Board President Matthew Gelazela, who was elevated to his post after previously serving as the board’s most vocal bomb-thrower, pointed to Red Lion’s discriminatory policies as something to aspire to.

Now, upon the advice of that law firm — the Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center — the board approved spending $8,700 to cut windows so passersby can look into the so-called “gender-identity” student bathrooms.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot 40 points 1 day ago

man from the child molester party wants windows in childrens bathrooms for totally not molester reasons.

[–] 800XL 17 points 1 day ago

That's weird as hell.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

starting to think the anti trans crusaders are just paedophiles looking to legitimise paedophilia.

[–] ZombieMantis 5 points 1 day ago

Pedo-con theory is a "theory", like the theory of Gravity is "only a theory."

[–] ngwoo 31 points 1 day ago

Conservative Christians increase their involvement and within a year the children's bathroom has a viewport for pedophiles installed.

[–] WoahWoah 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

This won't help much, hard to tell much just by someone's face. What we need here is a window specifically for viewing the children's genitalia. And then we need a dedicated monitor to watch all the children use the bathroom.

John, the repressed religious fundamentalist, has already volunteered. We've designed a room where he can monitor the genitalia from the holes we've cut, and we've also installed cameras inside the urinals and toilets with a feed that goes to the monitoring room, in case anyone tries to defeat our system.

The monitoring room has no windows or cameras in it, and the door locks from the inside, so, I think we've finally solved the problem. Consider the liberals owned!

[–] Fredselfish 9 points 1 day ago

What fucking law firm approved this? Must be one Trump uses. Because letting people look in on underage kids in the bathroom must be unconstitutional not to mention illegal? If that was going on in my kids school I be suing.

[–] ChronosTriggerWarning 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] 2ugly2live 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They go on and on about how they don't want the dangerous transgenders in the bathroom, but now anyone can peek in to confirm... What, exactly? It's not like the windows are in the stalls, so just for them assume someone gender? "You look too feminine, no boys room for you. Sorry, too masculine, no ladies room." What's next, strip searches? Wtf is it with them and the bathroom...

[–] MimicJar 2 points 10 hours ago

It's to ensure people remain on the outside and excluded.

If someone's preferred bathroom in the men's room, but they are forbidden from using it, they have a special bathroom to use. However we can't have them privately using a bathroom. We have to put them on display. EVERYONE needs to know they are different. The goal is to exclude, the goal is to make them feel different, the goal is hate. It's disgusting.

As students, hopefully, they just start to use the bathroom normally. If all students use it, then it's not weird. Now that's unfair to push on middle school students. But it's an option.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Wtf is it with them and the bathroom…

They really love people's gentials. The younger the genital, the better.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What’s next, strip searches?

Hardly "what's next". This has been a fixation by conservatives since since the Obama Administration

Aimee Toms was washing her hands in the women’s bathroom at Walmart in Danbury Friday when a stranger approached her and said, “You’re disgusting!” and “You don’t belong here!”

After momentary confusion, she realized that the woman next to her thought — because of her pixie-style haircut and baseball cap — that she was transgender.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Longer than that, even! Circa 2003/04 my 14 year old ass was getting chewed out by shitty Karens because they couldn't fathom the idea of a young teen girl sporting a pixie cut and wearing baggy metal tees, skate jeans and vans. I've actually resorted - more than once - to showing my used menstrual products as proof. Well, more as a way to harass them back, but. You know.

Joke's on me, though, I guess, since I'm actually genderfluid lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I've actually resorted - more than once - to showing my used menstrual products as proof.

That's metal.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

The only way to stop a bad guy with a window in your child's bathroom to watch them pee, is a good guy with a window in your child's bathroom to watch them pee

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whoever approved this is clearly very weird.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Yeah, is this not like blatantly pedophilic? Very weird

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

pedophilic

And yet, I don't see any evidence of drag queen or gay involvement.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nothing new here lol. Every accusation etc etc

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[–] blazeknave 42 points 2 days ago

Yeah... Protect me from those creeps watching my kid in the bathroom.. wait..

[–] forrcaho 234 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You've always got to show up for those school board elections now. Every. Single. Time.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 125 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Or live in Houston and the governor can just strip your School Board of power, then install an unelected bureaucrat to loot the school treasury.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Sarmyth 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Perverts and child abusers, the lot.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 7 points 1 day ago

They're so concerned about what's going on inside children's pants that they now was to watch them in bathroom.

Sounds pretty fucking weird to me

[–] [email protected] 181 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

These are the people who continually call everyone on the left "groomers" and taking an unhealthy interest in kids? The same people cutting peepholes into school bathrooms?

[–] WoodScientist 81 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Anyone who shows up to a school board meeting to complain about bathrooms should automatically have the police sent to look at their hard drive. If you're that concerned about the bathroom habits of young children, the cops really need to look at your internet history and the contents of your hard drive.

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[–] rsuri 5 points 1 day ago

And the school board president ran as a member of the "Libertarian Party".

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago

Now, upon the advice of that law firm — the Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center — the board approved spending $8,700 to cut windows so passersby can look into the so-called “gender-identity” student bathrooms.

Anyone want to take a bet that someone at the law firm or on the school board, really loves to sexual assault children?

[–] kescusay 107 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Guys, guys... If we just hurt these kids enough, it will force them back into the closet and we'll get to pretend LGBTQ+ kids don't exist!" - These assholes, probably

[–] betterdeadthanreddit 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's the plan. Ostracize to literal death and pretend it's an unfortunate side-effect that following a god (more specifically, their god) will fix.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago

These are really fucking weird and dangerous people.

[–] Cryophilia 24 points 2 days ago

After a low-turnout school board election in which several far-right members joined their ranks, they hired a Christian law firm, decided to begin banning books and reopened the bathroom issue.

Fucking VOTE you dumb sons of bitches!

[–] damnedfurry 66 points 2 days ago (5 children)

the windows help “[add] privacy in the toilet facility”

?????

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[–] waterSticksToMyBalls 39 points 2 days ago (6 children)

This seems to be a pretty blatant violation of IBC chapter 21 1210.3

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (7 children)

From a local station.

"Our students should not consider the space outside of our stalls as private within the multiuser restrooms. Our current policy states 'In any facility in a District school that is for use based on Gender Identity, in which a person may be in a state of undress in the presence of others, school personnel shall provide private changing areas for use.' Areas between our stalls and sinks in multiuser restrooms are not private changing areas under that policy.

Just fucking WOW. I guess we should check their assholes next.

https://www.wgal.com/article/parents-upset-over-window-installation-south-westerns-gender-inclusive-bathrooms/62492963

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[–] FlyingSquid 31 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Ah, this takes me back to my own high school days back in the 90s where none of the boys' toilet stalls had doors on them. I assume as some sort of anti-masturbation tactic. I've got nervous bathroom issues already so I basically held it in until I got home most of the time.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (6 children)

You only need two types of bathrooms. One for standing while peeing and the other for sitting. That's the only way bathrooms need to be divided.

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[–] ThePantser 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do all these weirdos have gendered bathrooms in their homes? Just install single person non gendered bathrooms or floor to ceiling stalls and non connected sinks and be done with it.

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[–] Etterra 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can't believe this isn't illegal. What the thru idk fuck.

[–] Sidhean 1 points 22 hours ago

I daresay no one thought we needed a law against cutting a hole in the wall of a school bathroom. I certainly didn't have it on my bingo card for this month.

[–] Burn_The_Right 10 points 2 days ago

Conservatives are cockroaches.

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