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"PALMER — Mat-Su school officials will no longer allow transgender students to choose bathrooms that match their gender identity, suspending a practice recommended by district guidelines for over seven years.
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District school board voted 5-1 Wednesday night to halt the district’s existing policy for review.
That recommendation, from the board’s three-member policy committee, was based on the actions of a federal judge in Tennessee who in July blocked the Biden administration from enforcing an executive order designed to protect the LGBTQ community from school and workplace discrimination.
The school board decision means transgender students must use bathrooms corresponding to their gender at birth or request private facilities.
As directed by the board, Mat-Su schools superintendent Randy Trani will review the district’s policy and guidelines regarding transgender students’ use of communal bathrooms and locker rooms.
During the interim, transgender students can use locker rooms and bathrooms that match their sex assignment at birth or use individual bathrooms and locker rooms that provide privacy, board policy committee member Ole Larson said during the meeting.
A vocal crowd of parents packed Wednesday evening’s meeting to overflowing, many apparently motivated by concerns raised by descriptions circulated on social media of a transgender student’s use of a girls facility at Colony High School near Palmer. District officials did not provide any specifics about that incident before or during the board meeting."
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Mat-Su bans transgender students from bathrooms that match their gender identity
"PALMER — Mat-Su school officials will no longer allow transgender students to choose bathrooms that match their gender identity, suspending a practice recommended by district guidelines for over seven years.
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District school board voted 5-1 Wednesday night to halt the district’s existing policy for review.
That recommendation, from the board’s three-member policy committee, was based on the actions of a federal judge in Tennessee who in July blocked the Biden administration from enforcing an executive order designed to protect the LGBTQ community from school and workplace discrimination.
The school board decision means transgender students must use bathrooms corresponding to their gender at birth or request private facilities.
As directed by the board, Mat-Su schools superintendent Randy Trani will review the district’s policy and guidelines regarding transgender students’ use of communal bathrooms and locker rooms.
During the interim, transgender students can use locker rooms and bathrooms that match their sex assignment at birth or use individual bathrooms and locker rooms that provide privacy, board policy committee member Ole Larson said during the meeting.
A vocal crowd of parents packed Wednesday evening’s meeting to overflowing, many apparently motivated by concerns raised by descriptions circulated on social media of a transgender student’s use of a girls facility at Colony High School near Palmer. District officials did not provide any specifics about that incident before or during the board meeting."
Full story here....
Mat-Su bans transgender students from bathrooms that match their gender identity
